ATI’s Crossfire Xpress 3200 Chipset Takes Off

Well boom, there it is. The ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200 is ready to rumble and this time it looks like ATI might just be on the right track with this particular chipset. Unfortunately the card you are going to find this chipset on does have one major shortcoming.

Today ATI releases its next generation dual graphics PCI Express chipset for Athlon 64 systems. The product is no longer called Radeon Xpress, but rather the Crossfire Xpress 3200. This change emphasizes its dual graphics capabilities, which are considered the key to the mainstream and high-end platform business today. True PCI Express dual x16 faces off against Nvidia’s split lane solution, while a mediocre south bridge has to hold up against Nvidia’s feature wealth.

The history of ATI and Nvidia battling for market share is roughly as old as that of mainstream 3D graphics, but the battlefield is no longer limited to 3D graphics alone. Both companies realize that their reputations translate perfectly into advantages in other areas, such as the core logic business. Hand in hand with this goes the increasing trend towards parallelization - processors go multi core, and two or more graphics chips are teamed up to share 3D workload. What could be better than a platform solution that even helps to increase graphics sales? Ready or not, dual graphics is here. Source: Tom’s Hardware

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