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Zensunni
January 26th, 2006, 09:31 AM
I know buying the latest and greatest isn't ever worth it, but I'm curious if crossfire actually doubles performance, or does it just give a marginal boost like the SLI.

There's a review on tom's hardware guide for the new X1900 from ATI. When they do the benchmarks and they show the crossfire cards, are they using two cards, or are they just showing how fast a single crossfire card works? It's hard to tell, because the difference is very little in some area's and sometimes it's about 30-40% more.

Here's a link to the article: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/24/ati_radeon_x1900_heats_up_with_48_pixel_pipelines/