AMD CrossFire

"CrossFireX" redirects here. For the 2022 video game, see CrossfireX.
For other uses, see Crossfire (disambiguation).
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AMD CrossFire (also known as CrossFireX) is a brand name for the multi-GPU technology by Advanced Micro Devices, originally developed by ATI Technologies.[1] The technology allows up to four GPUs to be used in a single computer to improve graphics performance.[2]

Associated technology used in mobile computers with external graphics cards, such as in laptops or notebooks, is called AMD Hybrid Graphics.

The CrossFire brand name was retired by AMD in September 2017, however the company continues to develop and support the technology for DirectX 11 applications.[3] For DirectX 12 applications, AMD has the mGPU (also known as multi-GPU) branding, with the difference being that software developers must create mGPU compatible profiles for their applications where before AMD created the profiles for DirectX 11 applications.[4]

  1. ^ "AMD Crossfire Technology". AMD.com. AMD. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
  2. ^ "AMD CrossFireX". club-3d.com. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. ^ "AMD Radeon phases out the CrossFire brand as multi-GPU gets more complicated". pcworld.com. IDG Communications, Inc. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  4. ^ "AMD Radeon phases out the CrossFire brand as multi-GPU gets more complicated". PCWorld. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2021-04-12.