5 card crossfire?

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so im reading this press release on techpowerup.com:

 

HIS Announces R9 295X2 LiquidCooler

Press Release by

btarunr

Wednesday, April 16th 2014 20:45 Discuss (4 Comments)

Hightech Information System (HIS) today proudly announces the HIS R9 295X2 Liquid Cooler 8GB. HIS R9 295X2 Liquid Cooler 8GB is the world's fastest graphics card engineered for ultimate performance. Its features the Next Generation CrossFire support for up to 5 GPUs with no interconnect bridge required. It's designed with the latest technologies, all metal construction and features two R9 290X GPUs, which provides an all-round graphic experience to all users.

The R9 295X2 graphics card reference design ships with an advanced closed-loop liquid cooling system developed jointly with Asetek. Users can enjoy such cool temperatures, quiet operation and consistently high performance. Another powerful strength is Mantle technology. Games enabled with Mantle speak the language of Graphics Core Next to unlock revolutionary performance and image quality.

Meanwhile, the TrueAudio technology puts the magic of surround sound into every headset and helps give sound engineers the freedom to innovate in ways they have never had before. This is what the future of PC gaming sounds like. Loaded with AMD's latest technology, such as GCN, Apps Faster & Smoother and so on, the card has revolutionary improvements on computing performance, gaming experience as well as power consumption!

Pricing and Availability
Available starting April 21 on Newegg.com, at $1,499 USD.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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wow, 5 card crossfire?

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it could be a typo. then again to be honest someone would have to have less brain than sense to have 5 cards in crossfire.

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The XDMA block in Hawaii theoretically allows any number of GPUs in crossfire. They don't currently allow more than 4, probably for bandwidth and support reasons. Maybe they're changing that.

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Well pcie 4.0 comes with skylake(iirc) and over 30 pcie 3.0 lanes will come with haswell e so we will be getting more bandwidth for gpus soon. 5 card cf could be real soon.

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think it may be a good idea to improve support for regular crossfire first? just a thought.