Sapphire Confirms Dual-GPU Graphics Card

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Sapphire Technology, the worlds largest producer of ATI Radeon-based graphics cards, unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show the industrys first dual-chip graphics card based on the Radeon X1950 Pro graphics processing units (GPUs). The novelty may offer pretty high performance, however, due to lack of DirectX 10 support, its market prospects are uncertain.

The same thickness as a standard two slot graphics card, the Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual connects via a single PCI-Express x16 slot, bringing dual-GPU performance to mainboards with only one PCI Express connector, and opening up the future possibility of the worlds first Quad AMD GPU operation in an ATI CrossFire mainboard, a statement by Sapphire reads.

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