Sapphire dual dual-GPU setup. All explained inside
by Tarinder Sandhu
on 17 March 2007, 10:04
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Inside the Perspex bubble reside a couple of Sapphire X1950 Pro dual-GPU cards.
Each graphics card, then, contains a couple of RV570 cores that are bridged together. There's a total of 1024MiB of GDDR3 memory that's split over the GPUs.
That gives rise to internal CrossFire on each card.
Sapphire's special trick for CeBIT is to connect two together via CrossFire - AMD's multi-GPU technology, such that there's CrossFire on top of CrossFire.
Here's the CrossFire connectors hooking up the cards. Unfortunately, though, AMD's driver team still hasn't got around to activating CrossFire between these dual-GPU cards, which is shame.
Each card scores around 8,300 marks in 3DMark06, by the way.