HDR: CrossFire vs. SLI

HDR is the latest in graphic effects and those of you who have followed the news here at NH have earlier seen several examples of where and how HDR can be used. One of them are Valve’s “demo map” Half-Life 2: Lost Coast which uses HDR-technology to create realistic lighting effects. At AMD Zone they’ve tested the performance of HDR with the two multi GPU system that the graphic card manufacturers ATi and nVidia has launched. CrossFire is so far only available with X850-graphic cards so it comes as no surprise that a SLI-configuration with two 7800 GTX-graphic cards humiliates ATi’s CrossFire system, but then again there seems to be something wrong with CrossFire and its performance. A comparison that shows that HDR comes with a price, even with Valve’s tuned version.

:: Read on at AMD Zone