XFX 9800GX2 Quad SLI
Call of Duty 4 & Oblivion
Published: 19th June 2008 | Source: XFX | Price: £650.00 |
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10 minute long gameplay demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Very similar results were had with Infinity Ward's first person shooter. While the 3870x2 was smooth to play the Quad SLI rig showed its superiority at both resolutions and once more AA/AF was a factor in the 3870x2's demise....I think we are starting to see a pattern here.
Oblivion from Bethseda is now an 'old' game by today's standards, but is still one of the most visually taxing games out there. The benchmark was run in the wilderness with all settings set to the maximum possible. Bloom was used in preference to HDR. The test was run five times with the average FPS then being deduced.
A much older game showed a closer set of results for all the setups concerned. Despite this, the 9800GX2 is the clear winner here once more.
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nice review mate,and very impressive results.However I can safely say that there is no way I could justify spending that amount on gfx cards,but would love to try it out
Yeah it's alot of money to fork out on GPU's and I don't think I could justify paying that much but before doing the review I was more than content with my quadfire setup...now I have my doubts after playing with the Quad SLI setup.
Very nice mate very in depth
whens the 4870 crossfire and 280gtx reviews?
whens the 4870 crossfire and 280gtx reviews?
nice review... shows everything i wanted to see here.. too bad i cant afford the gx2's. 48*0's should be good though. wouldnt mind seeing a review comparing these to the G260/280
StevenG
StevenG
looks good
but yea, a 4870 in crossfire also would have added nicely to the comparison
but i'm guessing you can only do so much
but yea, a 4870 in crossfire also would have added nicely to the comparison
but i'm guessing you can only do so much
Nice, you can really see quad sli make its own at 2560x1600
Cheers. Yeah it would be nice to test the latest and greatest , especially in SLI/CrossfireX - watch this space.
As a side note would you all prefer the res to be turned down a little as I know not everyone has 24-30" screens (although you should!).
.As a side note would you all prefer the res to be turned down a little as I know not everyone has 24-30" screens (although you should!).
Nice review again Rich 
I think the price is far too high even for the half decent high level performance seen here to be honest
Plus those babies get majorly hot and majorly loud
I think the price is far too high even for the half decent high level performance seen here to be honestPlus those babies get majorly hot and majorly loud
One thing that bothers me is how the gx2 takes 2 slots and the single pcb cards take 2 slots.
Basically both GPU's are still cooled efficiently as the GX2 has one large cooler attached to both cores(one either side of the cooler) rather than each core having a separate cooler. The downside to this is that the heatsink needs alot of air to be passed through it which in the GX2's case means more noise.
What screen you on webbo? a 30" im guessing... Nice review I can see its not really worth it for me on 24, unless I add loads of AA
I can see its not really worth it for me on 24, unless I add loads of AA 30" although as the results show a 24" would also be affected though not as much as the res is scaled down.
:O lucky bugger
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