What is CrossFireX? The new CrossFire is AMD's attempt to finally achieve multi-GPU parity with NVIDIA's SLI. Even today, CrossFireX continues to be a feature that's been promised but not delivered.
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Upon Phenom's launch, CrossFireX was promised as a feature but the driver support was not ready. It's always a good thing that we don't capitulate, but it was extra good in the case of Phenom for one very obvious reason: CrossFireX didn't work. We strive for scientifically sound comparisons at AnandTech, testing ATI video cards on an AMD platform and comparing them to NVIDIA video cards on an NVIDIA platform would violate the scientific method in a horribly inappropriate way. We never capitulate, always stressing that we'll use components because they make sense, not because they are a part of some platform that doesn't necessarily offer a tangible benefit to the end user. We see this sort of pressure all the time NVIDIA has been trying to get us to test with its "platforms" for the past year, with little success of course.
After all, only AMD 790 FX motherboards were properly equipped to support four GPUs and that was a clear advantage Phenom held over Intel's Core 2.
Back when we reviewed the Phenom AMD really wanted us to stress the importance of CrossFireX as a part of the overall platform package.
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