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ggrobot
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 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:51 am Post subject: CrossFireX vs. SLI New Games Performance [29802] |
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HardOCP has posted a ATI CrossFireX vs. NVIDIA SLI new games
performance article. You might be surprised to know how the
GTX 480 SLI, HD 5870 CFX and GTX 460 SLI performed playing three brand
new games using their apples-to-apples testing.
F1 2010 and Civilization V have been out for over two weeks now,
Read more...
Source: GGMania headlines
GGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news |
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Ozieo
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| I still don't understand why some are paying double the money for nothing more than frustration and disappointment. |
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psolord
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | We are going to start with F1 2010 because quite frankly, it was the only game to give us no trouble at all. |
What the FUCK is he talking about? Has he ever benchmarked Grid or Dirt 2 on similar configurations?
He should also had thrown in single gpu benchmarks for good measure.
Still, it is nice to have someone benchmarking newer games.
@ozieo
As I said before, you only need multi gpu for high res/high settings. If you try to play games like, Bad Company 2, Crysis, Warhead, Metro 2033, Lost Planet 2, Mafia 2 and many others at max settings, with a target framerate of 60fps+, you do need a couple of gpus to do the work for you.
Truth be told, owning two 5850s, I have found myself playing most games with one card. Still, I cannot describe the smoothness of heavy games like the above, when two gpus are in play.
Yes you pay for diminishing returns for the most part, in the respect that most games run above 60fps with a single high end card, so a second one is not needed, but the point is, if you got the enthusiasm, why the hell not do it?
Don't forget, that besides gameplay itself, benchmarking stuff is fun as well. Drag racing is useless, but some people love it. Same goes for myriad other things.
Crossfire support, has been overall good, for the whole year I own my 5850s. There were some fuck ups here and there, but when someone desides to go for multi gpu, should be conscious and alerted of what he is choosing. There are pluses and there are minuses. |
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El_Coyote
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| psolord wrote: | | Quote: | | We are going to start with F1 2010 because quite frankly, it was the only game to give us no trouble at all. |
What the FUCK is he talking about? Has he ever benchmarked Grid or Dirt 2 on similar configurations?
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to be fair grid and dirt2 is also codemasters games and run other iterations of the same engine. So problems are not expected on those titles anyway |
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psolord
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| El_Coyote wrote: | | psolord wrote: | | Quote: | | We are going to start with F1 2010 because quite frankly, it was the only game to give us no trouble at all. |
What the FUCK is he talking about? Has he ever benchmarked Grid or Dirt 2 on similar configurations?
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to be fair grid and dirt2 is also codemasters games and run other iterations of the same engine. So problems are not expected on those titles anyway |
No you got me wrong.
Yes they are CODEMASTERS games and that makes it even worse. My point being....using my very own benchmarks below.
YouTube - RACE DRIVER GRID 1920x1080 4XAA ATI 4850 @750MHz E6600 @3.0GHz result 60fps avg
YouTube - F1 2010 DX9 ULTRA 1920x1080 4XAA ATI 4850 @750MHz E6600 @3.0GHz result 33fps avg
On my 5850, Dirt 2 is faster in maxed DX11 than F1 2010 DX9.
On my GTX 460, Dirt 2 is faster in DX9 16XCFAA than F1 2010 DX9 4XAA. |
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gx-x
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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@psolord
they were probably referring to sli/cf working with no problems, not that the game itself has no problems. |
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psolord
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| gx-x wrote: | @psolord
they were probably referring to sli/cf working with no problems, not that the game itself has no problems. |
Oh OK.
Still i cannot verify their findings. My crossfire setup run like donkey balls.
Maybe due to the huge fuck up on the CPU side, I could not see the scaling on my 1920X1080 res. |
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gx-x
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Since last year, I can't verify anything from HardOCP, they seem to have became totally weird with their tests/findings. |
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