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Nvidia crushes MSI's Lucid based board

As a rule of thumb, anything that comes from the Semi Accurate website, is normally not accurate at all and a complete and utter bullpoo story just to get traffic.

They come up with some interesting thought provoking articles, but the vast majority of them have been disproven in one way or another.
 
Shame they don't seem to have any comparisons SLI v Hydra...

The figures are hard to compare directly to known benchmarks but at a guess based on what I do know the scaling seems to be around 15-20% lower in titles that do support SLI than SLI scaling - but then its early days - and obviously can show benefits in titles that SLI can't touch.
 
Nvidia's policy is copied off the CIA - deny, deny, deny, deny...

I imagine this'll be like Batmangate where they get pwned by the truth after a few short weeks.
 
Rroff said:
Shame they don't seem to have any comparisons SLI v Hydra...

The figures are hard to compare directly to known benchmarks but at a guess based on what I do know the scaling seems to be around 15-20% lower in titles that do support SLI than SLI scaling - but then its early days - and obviously can show benefits in titles that SLI can't touch.
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Really? I thought SLI scales only rarely near to 100% and normally is 60 to 70% whereas the benchmarks I have seen for the bIg bang lucid shows almost 100% scaling which is miles faster than SLI with the added bonus of mix and match cards from any vendor.
 
Orangey said:
Nvidia's policy is copied off the CIA - deny, deny, deny, deny...

I imagine this'll be like Batmangate where they get pwned by the truth after a few short weeks.
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Did you bother to read the thread?

nVidia have denied it yes, but MSI have also confirmed that the Big Bang motherboard is going ahead although they've run into a few bugs as confirmed by the benchmarks and reviews of the actual hardware itself.

It's just another publicity article written by Semi Accurate.
 
Greebo said:
Really? I thought SLI scales only rarely near to 100% and normally is 60 to 70% whereas the benchmarks I have seen for the bIg bang lucid shows almost 100% scaling which is miles faster than SLI with the added bonus of mix and match cards from any vendor.
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I must have missed some benchmarks all the ones I saw showed 40-60 percennt scalinng.
 
Rroff said:
I must have missed some benchmarks all the ones I saw showed 40-60 percennt scalinng.
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Earlier benchmarks on a MSI scored much higher than the "test" daughter board in the preview linked on this thread.

However even in that preview it scales up to 90% with two gtx260 which from memory exceeds how SLI scales unless that has much improved and I;m out of touch?

EDIT: I am out of touch, SLI now also scales up to 90% in the same games therefore if offers the same performance.
 
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SLI will scale upto 90-95% in some cases - depending on resolution, the game in question, the cards and CPU in question, etc. but theres a lot of variables to getting that high a scaling - 60-70% is more common.

As examples - playing Batman AA at 2048x all maxed - single card 50fps average, SLI 60fps average... whereas eve online - single card 120fps average, SLI 239fps average.
 
Unless you can totally get rid of CPU bottlenecks etc. then multi-GPU scaling is never going to be 100%.

For example even with single GPU cards a 5870 is technologically twice as good as a 4890 but in the real world it's rarely going to be twice as fast.
 
mmj_uk said:
Unless you can totally get rid of CPU bottlenecks etc. then multi-GPU scaling is never going to be 100%.

For example even with single GPU cards a 5870 is technologically twice as good as a 4890 but in the real world it's rarely going to be twice as fast.
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While you say that, there are examples of crossfire scaling at 100%, SLi too, but I'm not sure of the examples for SLi.
 
I'm not going to speculate on this one, on one hand NV can display some horrible business practice, on the other hand it's Charlie...

I'll be gutted if Hydra dies though, I was going to go dual GPU when it came out :(
 
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