[Compare] HD3870 Crossfire vs 8800GT SLI

[cookerjc]

To read each game/benchmark's detail pls visit here.
english short version here

SLI vs Crossfire:




Dual vs Single:

[Bigchrome]

One of the best comparisons I've ever seen!

[v_rr]

Crossfire-X onfire

Where is Shintai? :p

[DTU_XaVier]

Interesting to say the least... To sum up, Crossfire scales a lot better with the 38xx-cards than SLi does with the GT... But 8800 still has better AA-support... Good news for people looking for a relatively cheap but powerful system on both sides of the fence...

Best Regards

[AliG]

agreed, this makes me think there may be hope for the 3870x2 to outperform the dual g92 card

[andre X_X]

nice test....

[Fixxxer]

Absolutely excellent!

[Nautilius]

Excellent compare! Hoorah for ATI!

[Machinus]

Thank you!!!

[nosboost300]

exactly what i've been looking for, thanks for the info

my friends in the market of buying 8800gt's or 3870's and this should definitely help him out

[vengance_01]

That looks very nice. I hope ATI's new R680 is as good as two 3870's in Crossfire or even better

[Demo]

Looks very nice, hopefull this will bring out another graphics price wars!!

victory for consumers!

[ReverendMaynard]

Brilliant comparisons man.

[Omastar]

3870 CF looks pretty badass. And wow, imagine that, CF does a lot better in Call of Juarez than SLI. Not that the designers of COJ has a direct partnership with AMD/ATI (see the "plays best on ATI" label on the game box if you don't believe me). I guess COJ is AMD's little "pet" game that shows Spyder's prowess in the canned benchmark arena.

[ReverendMaynard]

so I guess it's the same for the Lost Planet "canned" benchmarks?

[S1mon-]

Crossfire is indeed impressive, but since I can't afford SLI or Crossfire, I am happy with my single 8800GT

[cloned]

i noticed the 3870 takes a huge hit in AA performance compared to the 8800 GT. while the 8800 GT suffers a bit more at higher resolutions than the 3870 when AA is off

if it wasn't for the AA performance i would say it kills the 8800 GT when considering the MSRP

[cky2k6]

made my 3870cf decision so much easier. i'd wait for the r680, but i already sold my parts, lol...

[metro.cl]

OS Vista

Mobo X38 vs NF680i

[zanzabar]

this clearly shows that ati is well on the path to win this round and since they are on intel chipset they can oc with a quad making them the defacto winer


and since both lost planet and COJ are way one sided if u ignore those those cards are dead even, and how dose ati win on QW i though that thats a shader limiting game thats amazing performance from ati

[LagunaX]

Cookerjc: did you see this thread? It seems so easy to do. Oh well, I already ordered my 8800gt from dell today...
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=166908

[The0men]

Crossfire certainly has potential, and scales far more efficiently than SLI. Crossfire clearly has the win, although I think in terms of single cards the GT would win.

[cstkl1]

hmm when u guys do a 8800gt sli
i have some issue with it..

its different from the g80 core sli.

[The Nemesis]

Awesome comparison. Though I do plan to go crossfire since no nvidia offer will likely handle overclocking a Quad core or higher, again I'd like to point out the the operating system used was windows vista. As most of you know, 3DMark06 scores significantly lower in Vista than XP with Nvidia. Not sure about ATI. I'd like to see results ran on win xp. Especially since it's rumored that winxp sp3 has performance boosts.

[Scimitar]

Totally sweet comparison!!! Thanks a lot man. It looks like Nvidia is the way to go for single card and ATI for multi card.