Scissor Mode - ATI Technologies X1900 - Radeon XTX 512 MB PCIE Video Card User Manual

4 Partial Frame Rendered on PCI Express® Master Graphics Card
5 Final Rendered Frame on Display
SuperTiling has the advantage of being able to work with practically any
3D application. However, there are a small number of applications where
the SuperTiling workload distribution does not provide optimal
performance. For these special cases, Scissor Mode can be used.

Scissor Mode

In this mode, each frame is split into two sections, with each section being
processed by one GPU. The ideal configuration is determined
automatically for each application.
1 PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card
2 Radeon® X1900 Series Master Graphics Card
3 Partial Frame Rendered on PCI Express® Slave Graphics Card
4 Partial Frame Rendered on PCI Express® Master Graphics Card
5 Final Rendered Frame on Display
CrossFire™ Rendering Modes 107