According to AMD this new approach will eliminate much of the frame pacing issues that have been harshly criticized in initial benchmarks. Due to these results AMD decided to eliminate the need for a crossfire bridge, since the PCI-E interface has enough bandwidth for multi-GPU communication, and it seems from first impressions that the chip giant has absolutely nailed the scaling...
The scaling is certainly impressive, we can clearly see that the scaling does not dip under 80% and can deliver up to double the performance on Far Cry 3. If this is the true scaling and performance we can expect this to be an industry standard in the future.
We can observe that all the titles are being run on the extremely high 3840 x 2160 resolution of 4K HD. A single R9-290X can indeed stumble on such a monstrous resolution, specifically on Hitman Absolution and Max Payne 3, although they are using a huge amount of anti-aliasing. Despite this the crossfire configuration's near perfect scaling seems to take away any doubt of performance hiccups, it plays all games in a playable manner with the exception of Hitman Absolution. Ladies and gentleman it seems as if 4K gaming may actually be upon us.
So what can we gather from all of this leaked data? Well, assuming it's true, we can safely assume that the R9-290X crossfire setup was solely intended for 4K HD gaming, unless you have a 120-240Hz 1920x1080p monitor this horsepower is going to waste.
We can also assume that NVidia will adopt the cunning bridgeless multi-GPU connection, considering the plausible scaling.
Courtesy of GD
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