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George Ross, May 14, 2010
| Processor | Intel Core i7-920 @ 3.4GHz | |
| Motherboard | EVGA E758-TR | |
| Memory | G.SKILL Trident 6GB DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) @ 813 MHz (DDR 1626) 11-11-11-28 Triple Channel Mode | |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB 7200 RPM 32MB cache SATA 3.0Gb/s | |
| Video Card | Radeon HD 4890 @ 900 MHz core 1,000 MHz (4,000 Gb/s) memory Catalyst 10.4 |
Radeon HD 4890 @ 900 MHz core 1,000 MHz (4,000 Gb/s) memory Radeon HD 4890 @ 900 MHz core 1,000 MHz (4,000 Gb/s) memory Catalyst 10.4 |
| Optical Disk Drive | Pioneer DVR-115DBK | |
| Power Supply | Seventeam ST-850PAF 850W | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | |
Using CrossFire to chase better benchmarketing numbers in 3D Mark 06 gives you a 23% performance hike.
CrossFire gives you a 65% performance boost in 3D Mark Vantage.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat gets a great boost from the added HD 4890 giving you 85% more overall averages per second.
Going the CrossFire route for playing Crysis gives you a 37% increase in overall average frames per second.
The World in Conflict Demo makes good use of CrossFire by giving you a 46% boost in overall average frames per second.
Devil May Cry 4 continues its trend of CrossFire love resulting in a 83% jump in overall average frames per second.
Even Resident Evil 5 puts CrossFire to good use by bumping up the overall average frames per second by 28%.
Looking across all the gaming benchmarks CrossFire improves the overall average frames per second by 56%. These numbers are quite good and reflect the usefulness of ATI's current multi-GPU technology.
