Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: gururu
Originally posted by: apoppin
Guaranteed - we WILL see "sli" from ati.
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is it SLI as we know it, or just the ability to run chips in parallel like the 3dfx VSA100(?) chips. I know the Rage MAXX was something like that with two cores and double the memory. that'd be interesting, althought they may hesitate to do it again since it didn't end up being a good solution. It wasn't twice as fast, maybe because their drivers were still in their infancy.
The ONLY problem with the MAXX was writing drivers for it . . . evidently that IS the hard part.
All we "know" is that a multi-chip or multi-core functionality is built-in to the r300 and later . . . ati hasn't given us the 'details'.
clearly, ati will do it if nVidia is successful with theirs.
Thats the point we are bringing up.
They down play it now, then will turn around and do it themselves.
What they should have done instead of knocking it was say something like
"We are waiting to see what happens in the other camp before making our decision"
This way they dont totally look like a bunch of hypocritical butt munches like they do now.