CrossFire Benchmarks

This must cause mixed feelings!

 

[H] is up:

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODE1

 

Wow Rys, that was kind of harsh.

 

Interesting bit-tech observation re universal compatibility:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/09/26/ati_crossfire_detail/3.html

 

Not really, I thought he was pretty fair. Crossfire isn't the end-all/be-all and has some rather serious flaws/limitations.

I'm regretting sticking with AGP less and less reading these Crossfire reviews...

 

My favorite bossman is back shaming me with my incompetency and I'm loving it:

There, lots to read!

 

It seems to be that SLI/Crossfire have alot of the same benefits/drawbacks as SLI. I dont see its "Profileless" system as being of any real benefit from what I have seen. If there is a benefit its marginal. Other than they seem to act fairly identical.

 

Lost Coast does work with CrossFire... it was something else that was stopping Bit-Tech from seeing increases...

 

What the heck was ATi thinking with this? How could you possibly seriously put the time and resources into a near total DUD of a SLI offering? The limitations and complexity they thought were "a good idea" are absolutely mind-boggling.

This sums it up.

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODE1LDE2

I am at a loss. I Don’t know what's going on at ATi lately but its disturbing and needs to get fixed ASAP.

 

What?

 

I-O error? [Idiot-Operator. Tho that sounds harsher than I mean it, if they are lurking, and I say it about myself quite regularly. . .]

 

One of the limitations of CrossFire is Windowed mode (which LC uses by default)... if your interested in LC benches for fullscreen you can see the improvments in my review on DH.

Cant say much else or i'll miss my train...

 

Hellbinder, you are indeed correct. There is something disturbing going on and the plain fact is that ATi got side stepped totally with SLI and they scrambled to get an equivalent.

[H] totally summed up all the problems that any non-fanboi's would have seen from the start.

I hate to say it, but Nvidia's solution is perfect. Yes there is a problem with the Master/Slave issue and there is a problem with the dongle.

But I guess, unless you a die hard or you NEED to have ATI in your system, you just wont see the problems.

To everyone else, they are clear as day.

Oh well. Hopefully when R600 comes out, there will be a native solution and it will be a case of plugging in another card, connecting the internal connector and off you go.

/awaits negative points from all the fanboi's

 

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/crossfireatireviewxxx/hl2.htm

Yup, guess so. . .

 

Unfortunately I have been away on (a much needed) holiday for the run up to CrossFire so I didn't get the chance to do bit-tech's CrossFire coverage myself.

Wil had to step in the breach but I'm not quite sure what has happened in that instance to be perfectly honest.

 

Not that you asked, but wearing the "Go ahead and kick me you sadistic SOBs, see if I care!" sign around is just never helpful. Not in 3rd grade at a new school, and not here.

 

Sigh...it was a joke...hence the smily at the end. I guess next time I will make it more obvious! (hehe)

 

I would hardly call SLI perfect....

 

Yeah, I guess it was a little harsh in its tone, but it's how I feel about what could and should be a decent first go at a consumer multi-GPU platform.

It's also nothing I don't believe is correct and it's also nothing I think they can have much complaint over either. It's not impressive in its current state and I think they absolutely know it too. Nothing more to say really, just very underwhelming to begin with.

 

Do you get a sense they are committed to improving and providing resources in a serious way to do it?

I guess my main concern is that is painfully obvious to all involved that ATI was dragged nearly whining and sniveling into this area in the first place. So I'm less concerned about what they've accomplished so far if they are really committed to improving. The real danger, in my view, is that initial "didn't really want to do it anyway" attitude could impact resources made available, the quality of those resources, the priority, etc, and ensure that CrossFire never really meets its potential and just peters out to an ignominous end a little further down the road.

Edit: And if you already addressed this in your piece. . .well, still can't get it to resolve reliably here!