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I know that good crossfire performance depends on good driver support, but how well does this extend into the future? Obviously as Crossfire remains a big part of ATI/AMDs high-end GPU strategy they will continue to support it, but when they are optimizing crossfire performance for the latest line of GPUs, does that also help with crossfire performance using older GPUs?
It is really difficult to get an idea of how well a crossfire setup ages, in a large part due to the fact that you almost never see crossfire setups included in benchmarks unless it is using the very latest cards. You would be very unlikely to read an article today that would include results from a 3870x2 (for example).
Is anyone here still using older cards in crossfire? I still see a few people using 3870x2s but thats about it. Id love to see how an old x850 crossfire setup would work or crossfire using X1950XTs for example, and if those cards continue to show proper crossfire scaling even though they are years old and are obviously not a focus of current driver optimizations.
Part of the reason for my curiosity is that Im probably going to get another 4870x2 and then likely use that setup for quite some time. The setup will have plenty of raw power but performance with quad crossfire will be even more driver dependent than regular crossfire and Id hate for the setup to become obsolete due to driver issues long before the hardware itself isnt fast enough.
It is really difficult to get an idea of how well a crossfire setup ages, in a large part due to the fact that you almost never see crossfire setups included in benchmarks unless it is using the very latest cards. You would be very unlikely to read an article today that would include results from a 3870x2 (for example).
Is anyone here still using older cards in crossfire? I still see a few people using 3870x2s but thats about it. Id love to see how an old x850 crossfire setup would work or crossfire using X1950XTs for example, and if those cards continue to show proper crossfire scaling even though they are years old and are obviously not a focus of current driver optimizations.
Part of the reason for my curiosity is that Im probably going to get another 4870x2 and then likely use that setup for quite some time. The setup will have plenty of raw power but performance with quad crossfire will be even more driver dependent than regular crossfire and Id hate for the setup to become obsolete due to driver issues long before the hardware itself isnt fast enough.