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Double trouble: Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 in CrossFire
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Published: Friday 12th September, 2008 | Author: Tarinder Sandhu
Products: Radeon HD 4670 512MB, ATI Radeon HD 4670
Companies: AMD (All AMD content), Sapphire (All Sapphire content), ATi Technologies (All ATi Technologies content)
Platforms: PC
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Then there are the inherent potential problems that may surface with rendering on two GPUs and the associated profiles and optimisations that need to be made by the drivers.
Knowing this, we still reckon that two Radeon HD 4670 GDDR3 cards make some kind of sense if your graphics outlay is around £100. For that money you receive greater multi-monitor support and, at times, comfortably higher performance than any single-GPU card can provide, because Radeon HD 4670 GDDR3 is such a good GPU for the money.
We've demonstrated that there is more than one way to receive considerable graphics-related value, and we'd urge ATI's add-in board partners to go the extra mile and create a single-PCB Gemini board, for the hell of it, and let the consumer decide if they'd rather opt for a GeForce 9800 GT, Radeon HD 4850, or Radeon HD 4670 X2 - all would be good for around £100.
Bottom line: the mainstream maestro, Radeon HD 4670, doubles-up rather nicely, and if you're not averse to running two GPUs in a mid-range system, they may well be the best way to higher performance.
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It does look like crossfire is reaching quite a mature stage now, with some 80%-100% increase through 2 cards. I actually thought the technology would just die out when I first saw SLI and Crossfire because there was so little benefit.Quote
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er, sorry - didn't see the last post before I put my comment in - anyway, I agree with lokiQuote
Different colours for different cards would be useful on the comparison graphs - or maybe it's just my eyes?
The graphs are a nice touch, but personally I'd prefer each item to be a different colour and the colour scheme to be the same throughout the review.
One thing I accidentally came across was that if you click on a card in the key at the top-right of each graph it hides its bar. Made it a bit easier to work out what was what, but still...
[EDIT] Ooh, just had an idea! How easy would (or wouldn't) it be to add an arrow from each item on the key to its appropriate bar on the graph? Or even return to the old method of having the item name on the bar itself? That would be easier I imagine but I've not had a whole lot of experience with Flash so...Quote
We're still experimenting with the graphs. I thought that this method, where the GPU companies are clearly defined, would be better, as the cards position on the graphs doesn't change.
Let me know if you still think differently and we'll change it.
It's not that, I like the companies being clearly defined :) However having different shades of the color so they are a little more distinguishable would be nice.Quote
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