ATI may have yet another trick up its sleeve to take on NVIDIA’s GeForce
7900 GT. French site PC INpact says it heard straight from ATI (translate here)
that the upcoming Catalyst 6.6 release will allow Radeon X1900 GT
graphics cards to work in CrossFire mode without a dongle or a “master
card.” This change could make the X1900 GT much more attractive choice
for dual-GPU systems. ATI’s Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition master card
is currently priced at a whopping
$499.99 in our price search engine, while the X1900 GT can be had
for just
$269.99. If PC INpact’s report holds up, users will be
able to build a Radeon X1900 GT CrossFire setup for $540 instead of $770 once
the new Catalyst drivers roll out.
At that price, a couple of Radeon X1900 GTs may turn out to be a pretty good
alternative to a pair of GeForce 7900 GTs running in SLI mode. However,
NVIDIA now has a new contender in the $500-600 segment: the GeForce 7950
GX2 “SLI on a stick,” which doesn’t require a motherboard with dual
PCI Express graphics slots.
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