ATI’s Radeon HD5970 Hemlock - DirectX 11, lots-o-cores, multiple displays, over-clockable
Posted by Jon Peddie on November 24th 2009 | Permalink
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Number five in its series of new AIBs, ATI as promised delivered the dual chip HD5970 Radeon board. It’s killer fast, easy on the power supply and pocketbook, and has bonuses like multi-display output and over clocking tools. The board comes with 2GB of DDR5, one each for each GPU. The GPUs get to the PCIe lanes via a gen2 PLX PCIe bridge chip. We ran a series of tests on the board in Windows 7 and the results were very impressive—without over-clocking. ATI has a lot of headroom in the RV870 Evergreen GPU, and the two of them on the…
Lucid’s Virtu unites any and all GPUs
Posted by Robert Dow on March 8th 2011 | Permalink
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Lucid (formally LucidLogix) came up with the idea for a PCIe sniffer that could intercept API calls, back in 2006. The company stayed in stealth mode, living on VC money and didn't actually show a product till 2008. The original idea was that Lucid would build a chipset that would allow any two (or more) AIBs to operate together in a complimentary way – what AMD calls Crossfire, S3 calls Multi Chrome, and Nvidia calls SLI. However, Lucid promised to enable any of them, any combination of them, any generation or SKU of them, to run together and boost each other.…
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