Today we will talk about the prospects for the development of the crossFire technology , which, as is known, soon will obtain the possibility to calculate physical effects using its own graphic chips. Software for this technology will provided by company havok.
Associates decided to explain, due to what factors ATI is going to ensure the proper operating speed with the physical effects in games. First of all, we should mind that ATI plan to provides three video cards to work simultaneously in future chipset. for the moment to calculate physics it is sufficient only to use two video cards - one of them will be occupied by“graphical responsibilities”, another - “physics”.
For the successful physics acceleration , video card from ATI will use slots PCI express x16 at the total capacity, the capacity of video memory will be sufficiently large. In a word, the idea of physics acceleration by relatively inexpensive configurations, still alwais far from the realization.
By the way, Microsoft collaborates with ATI, introducing into DirectX 10 more than functions, capable to accelerate the special-calculations purpose Of computing stream . This does indicate that video card NVIDIA in the physics calculations under the the directX 10 will be slower.
As you remember, the support Of crossFire using chipset Of intel p965 required some optimization at the bios level of the motherboard, directed toward for the acceleration of the data transmission between the north and south bridge. Associates learned from the representatives OF ATI, that similar optimization was provided also at the drivers level . Furthermore, ATI already realized the support Of crossFire for video card radeon x1800 XT using chipset intel p965.
Associates also learned, that soon ATI will propose for the single video cards the support of the new mode AA, which will work also in the technology Of crossFire. company ATI has no plan To block the support Of crossFire for chipset intel .
ATI company promised that motherboards on base of chipset RD600, which will show up in the present year. this chipser will be on competition with those from intel from both side performance and price.