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| ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 GPU Uses PLX's PCIe Switch for Fanout PLX Technology announces that its PEX 8547 PCIe switch is being used for fanout in AMD's new ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Dual-GPU graphics cards, now officially released and targeting extreme-gaming enthusiasts. The PLX ExpressLane PEX 8547 PCIe switch was designed specifically for intense graphics applications like the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, and offers 48 lanes, three ports, remarkably low latency (only 110 nanoseconds), true peer-to-peer traffic, large packet memory (1024-byte maximum payload size) and a non-blocking internal switch architecture that provides a full line rate on all ports for performance-hungry graphics applications. The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is industry's first teraflop gaming card, and industry's first Microsoft DirectX 10.1 enthusiast solution. With this new graphics solution gamers can advance to superior performance on the latest HD games and experience life-like realism thanks to Microsoft DirectX 10.1 capabilities and plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU upgradeability. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |