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 | | Desktop graphics processors built by ATI from R300 and upwards have a number of hardware elements that were specifically designed with scaleable, multi-chip rendering in mind, and the CrossFire system ATI have put in place for their multi-board desktop platform presses these into service, and even elements from MAXX are utilised. |
 | | Fundamentally, though, ATI’s CrossFire solution is similar to NVIDIA’s — in its initial form it uses a motherboard that supports two 16x PCI Express for graphics slots and couples two graphics boards together in order to increase the potential rendering performance over a single board. |
 | | On this initial introduction, although somewhat evasive on an actual reply, ATI look to be initially making CrossFire applicable to their platforms only, something that we hope they will soon readdress and offer the capability on other platforms that can support splitting of the PCI Express graphics system into two 8x lanes. |
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