XFX GTX 260 XXX SLI Performance

 

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.

 

 

 

 

As a single card setup, Call of Duty 4 preferred the Nvidia based rig but once dual cards were added, ATI’s superior scalability shone through beating the GTX260 XXX by quite some margin.

 

 

 

BioShock is a recent FPS shooter by 2K games. Based on the UT3 engine, it has a large amount of advanced DirectX techniques including excellent water rendering and superb lighting and smoke techniques. All results were recorded using F.R.A.P.S with a total of 5 identical runs through the same area of the game. The highest and lowest results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.

 

 

 

Bioshock also seemed to favour the ATI card(s) over NVIDIA. The single card benchmarks were very close but once more, the ATI cards scaled much better than NVidia gaining more than 40fps at a lower resolution. Interestingly the XFX GTX260 XXX cards in SLI were slightly better than the Crossfire configuration once the resolution was increased.