As you can no doubt tell, the cards all look identical, and for the most part, there’s little different between them. In the photo above (can you tell that my camera’s external flash is broken?) sits AMD’s Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 – two of each. In some rarer cases, we can even see that 200% mark exceeded, which goes to show just how mature these configurations are in today’s landscape. In the earlier days of multi-GPU, we’d be lucky to see 150% of the performance of just one card, but today, when paired with the right software, we can actually see performance increases of up to 200%. One thing’s for sure, though, and that’s that dual-GPU tech has improved vastly ever since its introduction. NVIDIA touts more often than AMD that its dual-GPU solution is superior, and that’s something we’d like to put to an honest test. One aspect we haven’t tackled in the past, but we plan to in the near-future, is CrossFireX vs. This process is identical to NVIDIA’s SLI, and software-wise, both AMD and NVIDIA offer similar feature-sets. After both cards are installed and power connectors hooked up, all that’s needed is a simple CrossFireX bridge to mate the cards. So, to help fill in that void, this article will tackle dual-GPU HD 6950 and HD 6970 configurations across our regular suite.Īs we’ve come to expect from AMD, pairing up two GPUs to act together is a simple process.
Only FAIL was printed in red because there is currently nothing epic with the reds, other than their failure.AMD a couple of weeks ago released its first Radeon HD 6900 graphics card models, and at the time our article was published (about a week late due to various circumstances), we were unable to include CrossFireX performance as we had hoped. I think most of AMD's staff should get fired, starting with that idiot Terry the CatalystMaker. The greens used to fail in terms of software, but I guess this is the start of their complete failure in both software and hardware. It looks like moving to the greens with a 580 and not leaving the reds for good wasn't a bad idea at all.
It looks like AMD was taken by surprise, they did not expect the 580 to come out so soon and they were not ready to face it, they delayed the 6900 series hoping to fix their drivers and retain what's left of their reputation, but guess what? that did not work either, everyone had high expectations for the new 6900 cards and everyone was disappointed, and for those who still think that AMD will change things with drivers, think again, early reports also mention that those cards are very noisy and have heating issues already so good luck with that too.
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