ATI Multi VPU has master and slave card

WE managed to get a few more details about ATI's soon to be released Multi VPU marchitecture. We heard it might be branded as Crossfire but we are still not sure if this is its final name.

We confirmed that ATI will use a master-slave concept where all available cards on the market based on X800 and X850 chips could be your slave cards while you will have to go out and buy a new card called the master card. The master card will be little bit different from the existing card as it will have a place to connect this external connector necessary to make this marchitecture work. You do need to connect two cards externally out of your case.

The ATI partners are afraid that those master cards could be in short supply and very hard to find, at least for the time being. ATI is getting ready to reveal this marchitecture at Computex but will have NDA events in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, Montenegro and London for the press. This will take place in exactly a week from now.

The other sources are suggesting that motherboard manufacturers are not too happy about ATI's way of doing dual GPUs but this is something that we can not confirm yet. We will have to wait for Computex to see the general feeling about this architecture.

The future of performance gaming is dual graphic cards in one board and ATI wants to start being part of that as soon as possible. Just two more weeks. µ