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Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: PLX Technology Europe | Subject: PEX 8547
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 February 2008

PCI Express switch handles intense
graphics

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AMD's innovative high-end ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 dual-GPU graphics cards for extreme-gaming enthusiasts use the PLX ExpressLane PEX 8547 PCIe switch.

The PEX 8547 PCIe switch from PLX Technology is being used for high-performance fanout in AMD's innovative high-end ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 dual-GPU graphics cards for 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 110ns), true peer-to-peer traffic, large packet memory (1Kbyte maximum payload size) and a nonblocking internal switch architecture that provides a full line rate on all ports for performance-hungry graphics applications