NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Launch Delayed Until March 18th

[Tatty_Two]

http://en.expreview.com/2007/11/26/hd-3870-crossfire-vs-8800gt-sli/

I accidentally posted the wrong link. It is sorted now though. My point however was not to prove that the 3870 Xfire was faster than the 8800GT SLI but rather that it was on par in terms of performance. There are a lot of games out there with architecture specific optimizations which renders them unsuitable for benchmarking different architectures. Personally i prefer nvidia over ati (just check my system specs) but this does not mean that I'll try to discredit and burry the opposite team by making false accusations. I'm nobody's fanboy and I simply think that credit should go where it's due.

Cheers

All credit to you, but it does not change the fact that that link clearly shows us that even without AA enabled, the SLi setup wins 7 to 3 in 10 gaming benchmarks across multiple resolutions so your point about equal performance is only correct and relative dependant on what review you read, my point is, despite what you say, the majority of reviews and benches (that I have read) do show that in fact, the SLi setup with two 8800GT's is faster than XFire with two HD3870's but TBH this discussion is fairly immaterial in the greater scheme of things, because less than 5% of all users run XFire or SLi and there is no way in getting away from the fact that put simply, the 8800GT is the faster card, the fact that the HD3870 itself is only a fairly mild upgrade from the 2900XT just goes to show IMO how good the 2900XT actually was/is.

 

[Tatty_Two]

Erm NO it doesn't! Just read my previous post...



There is indeed a lot of confusion because of that. It seems that many websites out there are picking sides thus trying to polarize the market.

Agreed totally! which was kind of my point in the other post in as much as we can all find evidence to support our theories because there is in many case distorted info out there.

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

i see, distorted mind looking for distorted info ...

 

[Nitro-Max]

But have they fixed the 3870X2's problems yet? Particularly the one where only one core is used in Crysis?

I wasnt aware it had a problem but i dont have that game.Have you tried high details because i know in counterstrike source if you run it with low details it doesnt need the 3d clock speeds runs great at 2d i recon if it starts struggling which i havent seen yet lol Then the 3d clocks would probably kick in i maybe wrong.But running full detail you get the full 825mhz 3d clock speeds but the game even on high only utilizes around 60% max of the gpu.

I found this out running dual monitors one for the game and other to monitor clock speeds / system temps.

 

[Nitro-Max]

If the 3870x2 is doing well against the 9800gt just think what the 4870x2 can do. Especially in crossfire

 

[Tatty_Two]

i see, distorted mind looking for distorted info ...

TBH my mind is pretty distorted tho not thru computing