Eight CPU cores)? Four GPUs? The madness!

    About one and a half years after Nvidia Corp. introduced its quad-SLI technology, its arch-rival ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, plans to introduce its own 4-way CrossFire technology. This time the feature will be a part of AMD’s new dual-processor enthusiast class platform called FASN8 due out this fall.

    With the release of AMD Quad FX (4x4) platform late last year AMD offered something truly exclusive for enthusiasts and set a new fashion for dual-processor machines for those, who desire unbelievable performance and can afford additional price. While the first dual-socket direct connect (DSDC) platform did not become massively successful, as Intel Corp.’s quad-core chips turned out to offer higher performance, the new iteration of dual-processor enthusiast-class computers that AMD calls first AMD silicon next-gen 8-core (FASN8) may actually outperform competing solutions and not only due to AMD’s highly-advertised new-generation micro-architecture.


Source: X-bit Labs