ATI goes SLI, then R520

ATI seems to be pretty sure on what it should spend its resources. It’s not a new graphic circuit, I.e. R520, but its answer to NVIDIA’s SLI-technology. A new graphic circuit would have  given ATI a good mrgain on the graphic card market, but only as long as you use one card. When you include nVidia’s SLI-technology nVidia would be the winner in pretty much any benchmark. This seems to be the reason for ATI to delay the launch of R520 until autumn and instead go for its Multi VPU technology and be ready within a month. According to The Inquirer mainboards and hardware is already done. Right now it’s only a matter of optimizing the software and drivers, something NVIDIA is still struggling with.

Source: The Inquirer