Video Cards

There are two giant  graphic card manufacturers in the PC industry, NVIDIA with their GeForce series graphics cards and ATI with their Radeon series graphics cards.  The Radeon series is ATI brand of their consumer 3D accelerator add-in cards.  The original Radeon DDR was the first to sprung that featured Direct X 3D accelerator.  The company also manufactured a power optimized version of the graphics chips for the laptops.  And to respond to the demands of technology the company introduced the Cross-Fire technology.

Doubling up as we come to call it—where two components work together to provide better performance is not really a new idea.  Those involve with the IT industry will know that workstations and servers have long used multiple components such as CPU’s and hard drives to boost its performance.  However, doubling up seems to be now becoming popular—at least with vendors and in the consumer segment as well.

Graphics card when running in SLI/CrossFire offer benefits right away, though the actual increase on a single card really depend on your usage.  Your multi-GPU graphics array for example will find itself  bored and under used, if you run low resolutions or play older game titles.


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