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George Ross, March 10, 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 Cards | EVGA GeForce GTX275 @ 713MHz core 1,512MHz shaders 1,260MHz (2520DDR) memory Driver 196.75 |
EVGA GeForce GTX275 @ 713MHz core 1,512MHz shaders 1,260MHz (2520DDR) memory Palit GeForce GTX275 @ 713MHz core 1,512MHz shaders 1,260MHz (2520DDR) memory Driver 196.75 |
Radeon HD 4890 @ 900 MHz core 1,000 MHz (4,000 Gb/s) memory Catalyst 10.2 |
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 10.2 |
| Optical Disk Drive | Pioneer DVR-115DBK | |||
| Power Supply | Seventeam ST-850PAF 850W | |||
| Operating System | Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | |||
Using CrossFire gives you a 20% increase in 3DMark 06 scores, and SLI gives only gives you a 5% boost.
This time The SLI is on top with a 72% increase in scores with CrossFire only giving you a 64% increase in 3D Mark Vantage scores.
It appears that NVIDIA as some work to do with their SLI performance in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat as the added GTX 275 only gives you a 6% increase in overall average frames per second for this game. ATI fairs better with an 80% increase in overall average frames per second.
Crysis makes better use of the added GTX 275 giving you a 36% increase in overall average frames per second for this game. CrossFire manages to barely outpace SLI in the Crysis tests with a 38% increase in overall average frame rates.
World in Conflict brings another CrossFire win with a 41% increase in overall average frames per second. While the SLI setup only gives you a 13% increase in overall average frames per second.
Devil May Cry 4 favors the SLI setup with a 103% increase in overall average frames per second and leaving the CrossFire setup in the dust with an 82% increase in overall average frames per second.
SLI has some teething problems with Resident Evil 5 as the single GTX 275 outpaces the SLI configuration by 6% in overall average frames per second for these game tests. CrossFire has resolved its Resident Evil 5 issues and increases the overall average frames per second by 24%.
Taking a look at all the game tests the CrossFire setup increases the overall average frames per second by 54% and the SLI setup increases the overall average frames per second by 42%.
