Quad SLI with 9800 GX2: Pushing a System to its Limit
by Derek Wilson on March 25, 2008 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Performance
NVIDIA rocks the house on this benchmark. Not that AMD hardware performs poorly, but 4xAA (or beyond) is a no brainier at any res here.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Performance
No, really, AMD is just that much more badass under Oblivion than NVIDIA. The R6xx architecture owns at Oblivion. Someone emailed me and asked if I had gotten the resolutions off when I did the AMD tests. I double-checked for you, and these numbers are correct.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Performance
As we mentioned, future AMD drivers will support CrossFireX under OpenGL. Currently this is not supported, and thus we’ve reflected the performance two GPU CrossFire.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Performance
Quad SLI does push frame rate up at high res, and for those adventurous enough to enable AA in the driver for S.T.A.L.K.E.R., NVIDIA has made it possible to force it on. Performance drops big time, but it should be possible to get 2xAA at 1920x1200 at playable framerates. CrossFireX drops off in performance much more quickly over resolution in this test as well.
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piroroadkill - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
I agree with this, there's a doubling of raw power with two cards (and a doubling of the price), and until I see double the performance in scaling, SLI and CF can go to hellLayzer253 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - link
No, they shouldnt. It works just fineThatguy97 - Sunday, June 28, 2015 - link
still a fast setup today...Nfarce - Thursday, April 7, 2022 - link
On what planet even seven years ago? My 970s in SLI back then wrecked this for less than half the price.