Yesterday, the company AMD announced a new dual-chip high-performance graphics solution Radeon HD 5970. This video includes two HD 5800 series chip, mounted on a printed circuit board, and provides excellent performance at resolution 2560x1600 pixels in any modern computer game. Manufacturer claims that this model is currently the world's fastest gaming video card. But what if some particularly fastidious user this is not enough? How about pairing two such cards to improve performance? Source published the results of testing a new video card, it is in the configuration CrossFireX, as well as some earlier high-performance models.

For a start it is worth recalling some of the characteristics. Two Radeon HD 5970 graphics cards are almost totally 9mlrd transistors. The theoretical computational performance is 9.3 trillion operations per second memory bandwidth of 512Gb / s and the texture fill rate of about 232Gtekseley / sec. Indeed, such a system would be pretty good to play games. However, please be aware that in fact 2 HD 5970 graphics cards have four GPU, and AMD has openly admitted that this pairing is not as effective as the transition from one to two GPU. As will be seen from the test engines some games will not be able "on the fly to handle four frames at a time. By the way, another drawback of this configuration is its cost. Apart from two rather expensive graphics card users will likely need to also purchase a new powerful PSU. Moreover, given the support of technology Eyefinity family of graphics cards Radeon HD 5000, even the owner of a video card can play at once on three monitors, so it's hard to imagine what the average user may need a configuration with two Radeon HD 5970.