As I said in my previous post... take out the COJ results - or put in a game where CF doesn't work properly but SLI does - and there are such games... and the scores even up...
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As I said in my previous post... take out the COJ results - or put in a game where CF doesn't work properly but SLI does - and there are such games... and the scores even up...
i didnt use the COJ results i just took the 3dmark and QW results(couldnt be bottomed to type everything).
If you take just the 3dmark results its even worse 50% vs 80%
From the test result we can notice in more than 90% items, Crossfire scale more better than SLI. In 60% test items CrossFire scale up more than 50% performance compare to single card. But in only 40% items SLI can scale up to 50%.
More surprisingly, in 30% items there’s more than 80% scale in Crossfire. But we can hardly find a 70% scale in SLI solutions. In one word to sum this up: ATi’s Crossfire is more efficiency than SLI.
It is known that HD 3870 is not powerful compare to 8800GT. and because 3870 and 8800GT are at the same price, so a single 3870 have no advantage compare to 8800GT. But Crossfire, this funtion somehow add more value to the product. Also there are lot’s of middle and high end mobo (P965, P35, X38… and AMD’s own mobo) supports Crossfire, But only NV’s chipset supports SLI so in multicard solution AMD already got enough firepower to fight with NV.
Read their final thoughts mate, please read them! they say that crossfire is totally better than SLi! You are reading a page of percentages showing the difference between the final framerates side by side and clearly want to ignore the page with the gains for an 8800gt and then 3870xt!
God they even say in 90% of the tests Crossfire SCALES better!
Lets just end this now
Crossfire V SLI Native English version now up http://en.expreview.com/?p=53#more-53
I see that someone has linked to it now.
But this is the start page and someone has linked to that as well now....nevermind
I see that someone has linked to it now.
But this is the start page and someone has linked to that as well now....nevermind
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I see what your getting at but that is theory & not fact as that test has not been done yet and would really doubt that only the SLI would see gains from the cpu increase.
I find it odd they only got 20 odd percent increase in 3D Marks 06 @ 1280x with 0x FSAA and 0x AF... all the 7 and 8 series SLI setups I have here get between 72 and 78% on that one... I wonder if they have multi-GPU acceleration mode (not the SLI mode) set incorrectly.
Lets say that SLI is more taxing on the CPU, that would still mean crossfire is more efficient & the whole point of having a GPU is for it to the gfx work & not the CPU.
Some american sites have it online , $445 for the asus card which pretty low seeing as asus genrally bump up their card prices for no real good reason.
Still waiting on any uk prices showing up though. Bound to be a chorus of "WTF" posts when the uk prices are available though =/
Still waiting on any uk prices showing up though. Bound to be a chorus of "WTF" posts when the uk prices are available though =/
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OMG it doesn't look like it will even fit in my case. How stupid making a card so big.
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