CrossFire bridge:

This system allows, using a certified Crossfire board, to connect up to four graphic cards that support this technology in PCIe x16 slots. The total bandwidth that each card receives will depend on the configuration of PCIe transmission lines that have the north bridge included in the motherboard.

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PCI Express:

It is a new PCI bus development that uses the programming concepts and the existing communication standards, but is based on a much faster serial communication system. This system is supported mainly by Intel, which started to develop the standard with the Arapahoe project name after withdrawing from the Infiniband system. Source concepts hardware-ruth blogspot.