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****Official 6850/6870 Reviews thread****

Wonder why they've limited crossfire to 2 cards for these, be interesting to see if this trend continues on the higher end models.
 
Gerard said:
Wonder why they've limited crossfire to 2 cards for these, be interesting to see if this trend continues on the higher end models.
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Similar to Nvida with the 460, they are keeping the higher models exclusive to tri and quad xfire, it's like a kind of bonus for going with their top enthusiast parts.
 
Gerard said:
Wonder why they've limited crossfire to 2 cards for these, be interesting to see if this trend continues on the higher end models.
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So they can limit potential problems coming out from multi-gpu setups? Surely there's more chance of something failing with 3 or 4 graphics cards than just two. There's probably a financial side of things too, if Crossfire cards could retain high scaling with more than 2 gpus at once, some of the higher end graphics could potentially become less appealing (that was the case with Crossfire 5770s and a single 5870).
 
Turning up the AA does seem to let the 470 ahead I'm thinking at 8x AA it would be even more pronounced as most places seem to be avoiding benching at those levels.
 
Rroff said:
Turning up the AA does seem to let the 470 ahead I'm thinking at 8x AA it would be even more pronounced as most places seem to be avoiding benching at those levels.
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Most places? Let me read that again..Most places? How many reviews of the 6 series have you read that we clearly havn't? :confused:
 
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