AMD’s Quadfather platform, perhaps more know to the world as AMD’s 4×4, is a platform developed by AMD that means four CPU cores and four video circuits working together. Earlier many of us thought about this would need a Quad-SLI solution for the latter but it seems we were kind of wrong. Recent information shows us that it shouldn’t be a problem running four video cards instead as the new controller for Quadfather supports a total of four PCI-E 16x ports, for four separate video cards. NVIDIA NF680a, the name of the controller that’s going to be used, has enough PCI-E lanes to support two real PCI-E 16x ports and two 8x ports. Another interesting detail is that the controller itself is going to be a hardware router as the motherboard will sport four Gigabit Ethernet ports as well.
