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Tests of two video cards X1950Pro merged into a CrossFire combination have shown that in most cases the efficency of X1950Pro CrossFire (the performance boost as compared to the single X1950Pro) amounted to at least 50%. Note that at games the combination X1950Pro CrossFire quite often demonstrated much higher efficiency than in synthetic benchmarks. That is a sign of certain maturity of the technology. But engineers at AMD/ATI think it is too early to calm down. There is still much to work at because the scatter of results across applications is still significant, and it is in the company's plans to merge the power of not only two but more video processors.

If we compare the results for X1950Pro CrossFire versus the performance level of video cards presented in the review, then in most tests the combination was superior over the single X1950XTX, and in half the cases the results were either close to or superior over 8800GTS. Needless to say, it is not quite correct to compare video cards of different generations point-blankly. However, there are no DirectX 10 games yet, and the new NVIDIA flagships are still too expensive. So if you happen to get the second X1950Pro as a present, don't refuse to take it - a pair of X1950Pro is quite powerful enough for a "fast drive".

At that we could have placed a big dot. But we promised that we would sort out with the phenomenal results of tests for X1950Pro CrossFire at Need for Speed Carbon which exceed the theoretical limit for merging performances of two video cards. This part of the material requires some reader's «special qualification» in such matters, so it has been left outside the general description.

Koliko vidim u rangu 8800GTS, a u nekim slucajevima i bolja...not bad at all