The video processor allows the GPU to apply hardware acceleration and video processing functions while keeping power consumption & CPU utilization low. UVD provides hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 high definition video formats used by Blu-ray and HD DVD. One of the features lacking in the 2900 XT was the new UVD video decoder engine. Good stuff, and something we'll look deeper into very soon. it'll even allow overclocking on the multi-GPU based platform.
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The upcoming Catalyst driver release will fully support this feature, and hey. Ehm, you could connect up-to eight monitors and so on. So just remember this, you can game with four graphics adapters simultaneously. We do expect a Phenom system later this week with a new RD790FX mainboard allowing this new form of multi-GPU gaming. We tried to push for some CrossFire results on an Intel 975 Platform, yet to find out that the mainboard had just died. IF AMD will get this working right then it's the bomb as it allows you (with selected mainboards) to combine one, two, three or even four graphics cards together in Crossfire mode. None the less, today they are introducing CrossFireX. This quite honestly is a big Achilles heel for the Crossfire gaming experience. I sincerely hope that ATI will support Crossfire in their games better then they did in the past. RV670 also makes the move towards PCI-Express 2.0 compatibility which doubles the bus (PCIe) data rate towards 16GB/s.
So combining these factors can make the overall products less expensive. It's much cheaper to work with memory and less expensive to integrate. Next to shrinking that die-size ATI did make another clever move, the move back to the 256-bit memory bus (still using the 512-bit ring-bus).
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