As showed statistics, gathered by one of games developers : Technology SLI add only several percentages in games performance , and for Crossfire supporters This value is even lower. In this case it is complicated to deny, that the technology SLI from NVIDIA noticeably better presented on the market: The released ( Made by nvidia chipset :-) ) compatible motherboards , memory modules, power units and even case . A certain dissatisfaction of SLI supporters can cause the fact that the quantity of compatible with technology chipsets is strongly limited by drivers, although to overcome these program limitations user had to use some modded non official driver .
Associates reported that AMD desires to increase the popularity of technology crossfire, after opening access to its support for any chipsets, capable to support not less than two slots for graphic card connection with interface PCI express x16. The working principle of those slots in this case is not defined; however, based on example from chipset ATI RD600 it is possible to understand that AMD do not carry a lot with the previous question.
Let us recall that the support Of crossfire for chipset intel p965 was opened already by ATI company . But from those times the official support Of crossfire for platform intel was ensured only by chipset of i975X. AMD decided to open access to crossfire support but not only for all chipsets intel companies , but also for VIA chipsets , SiS and even NVIDIA. In any case interesting to see Nvidia chipset based motherboard with crossfire support :-)
In the opinion of the sources, the step to the liberalization Of crossfire can show action from NVIDIA, which may also open the official support to SLI. Actually, the mobile chipsets intel support SLI. The next intel chipset with SLi support will be : Bearlake- X (Intel x38) witch will be released in the third quarter 2007. we hope that such step will widely open the support of crossfire and Sli in all motherboard