NVIDIA tells us the truth about CrossFire

[Rob Williams]

Wow, I don't really know what to think of NVIDIA or ATI. NVIDIA comes out with these slides (http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/CrossfireTruth) that make ATI appear absolutely useless, but they include very bland and incorrect info.

They say ATI's Crossfire can *only* handle 14x AA, while the mighty SLi can support 16xAA. Of course, we would certainly notice a difference at that level. Hell, at 8xAA I can hardly see edges.

Then going on to say that nF4 Chipsets support PCI-E 1x better than ATI. Who the heck has a card that can be used in the PCI-E 1x slot? Nobody.

THEN, nTune is ONLY available with Nvidia cards. Of course it is, it's made BY NVIDIA.

Shrug. Read the full thing and make your comments here :D

[DarkSynergy]

Just corporate polotics at work again. Won't these two cats ever learn to get along. I mean really, SM 3.0 doesnt do a whole lot now anyway and HDR is a hog so I personally will not be holding anything against ATi for not supporting it. If anything, I take away from that posting the idea that nVidia might be a bit worried about Crossfire. Nothing like a smear campaign before Croosfire launches. What I do know is that ATi needs this to work well. nVidia has had a huge gap where ATi has had nothing that could touch it.

I liked the page with the press comments the best. As if I am going to change my mind about anything because the Inquirer says something bad about ATi. I mean who takes the Inquirer seriously? While I think its good marketing by nVidia, I dont take much away from it at all.

[madstork91]

Personally i think that was funnier than most of the online comics the last few weeks.

[Bobbythecat]

Ya. As official presentation material, it's tough to really take anything but their propaganda, although I am very interested in seeing a back-to-back benchmarking between the best of the corporations. nVidia might actually have the edge as they vigorously present with their slides.

[Rob Williams]

Don't know if this is a coincidence or not..

But after we all seen a slew of Crossfire reviews on the web today, I received an e-mail entitled "NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Named Best for Intel CPUs!"

You won't guess who the e-mail came from. ;)