A 3-way CrossFire picture with a huge & annoying watermark.

good lord allmighty wtf cares if some other site will post it and your small watermark is seen in the bottom left? :D

Still not interested. I'm not shelling out the money for the third card and power supply that only fits in the phatest of cases. I'll just add another 8800 and overclock em and it will still be just as fast.

Better-lit, less-watermarked pic @ Inq.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41256

3 hd 2900xt running in crossfire woah i wonder what psu they used?

I wonder, how would a benchmark battle look, between:
AMD Quad Core 3ghz, 2 x 2900XT
and
Intel Quad QX6850 3ghz, 2 x 8800 Ultra
Any thoughts ?
Any billionaires volunteering to try this?

the current amd chips dont stack up to intels. same with 2900 vs 8800. the next gen chips...hmmm..

I'm putting my money on the Intel-Ultra battle since the 8800 Ultra pwns the 2900XT, no matter if the AMD chip is comparable or not.

Intel/nVidia all the way. Duh.

@NotMe: Intel > AMD, nVidia > ATI (right now)

Its a Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W.


no doubt the intel rig will take it. One fatal piece of information your missing is, of course, the chipsets: I would assume you mean, on the intel rig, Nforce 680i and on the AMD rig, amd's new RD600 chipset (to be named Xpress 790 I think). The problem with AMD's new chipset is that it's beta, and was commented on being unstable at Computex this year.


However, People will not be suprised to see two 2900XTs under performing two 8800Ultras. However, the two 2900s in crossfire will scale much better then the two 8800Ultras in SLI.

0_0 so does ATI/AMD plan to ship the flux capacitor with this setup to actually power the rig?

Without benchies this really doesn't mean squat. For all we know the thing could scale horribly with 3 GPU setup (as I only see 2 with a bridge and everything states that all 3 cards are for graphics) or it could overload the PSU and everything clock back as a result. Until they get some solid benchmarks going (as in on a retail CPU) it's not worth anything.

Strange that the only performance index, apparently, is the Windows Experience Index -- maybe traditional benchmark scores on this platform are less than impressive.

Depends, the 2900 runs better in native DX10 then the GTS and sometimes GTX, but has shoddy DX9 performance. The Barcelona at 3ghz would beat the QX6850 due to a more refined architecture, although in most situations the Ultras walk over the 2900.

id put my money on intel

I don't know I think the overclocked HD 2900 from extreme PC are really good. I think that they could compete with the 8800 GTX or Ultra. The benchmarks they have in 3dmark06 is amazing.

my 1900 XTX gave me a 5.8 in Vista and the 8800 GTX gave me a 5.9 I only noticed some improvement in some games. But there are parts in Oblivion where the my 8800 GTX plays like crap.

From the AMD press release it seems that the "Phenom" processor (the quad-core Athlon version) does NOT beat the Intel QX6850. They actually have the brass balls to state that it won't matter to the enthusiast customer either! And when the Penryn core comes it'll take the performance/watt crown without any competition (think 3GHz quad-core at about 70watts under full load). As to the generation after that, who knows. But with Intel getting into the discrete graphics card segment it'll soon be Intel/Intel vs AMD/ATI vs ??/nVidia. That will be a fun battle.