As nVidia is improving the support for their multirendering technology, SLI, we are eagerly awaiting more information on ATi’s coming equivalent. Some might believe that ATi is throwing itself into an all new market to fast, only counter nVidia’s SLI technology. This is however far from the truth since ATi has had support for multirendering in their circuits for the last couple of years. Although, the technology hasn’t yet been introduced on the consumer market.
This is something they discuss over at The Inquirer in the report on ATI’s coming multirendering technology which is aimed towards the consumer market. There are few details officially released on the technology but at The Inquirer they try to tell as much as there is.
“ATI claims that its Multi VPU will work with all 3D applications, both Direct3D and OpenGL, and ATI has dedicated hardware support for super tiling. We wrote once about military systems using dozens of R300 cards to simulate a plane using some insane levels of FSAA. If I remember correctly, they used 34 Radeon cards based on the R300 chip and that is the maximum number of chips used for rendering that we know of.”
In other terms ATi is not new to multirendering, but then again it has mainly worked with OpenGL, something that might cause issues considering the support for Direct3D.
ATI Multi VPU will, according to The Inquirer, be launched during the summer, there is no way we can strengthen these figures, but we can surely say we are waiting very impatiently.
Source: The Inquirer
