Hehehe. you like the beasts, don't you?
Looking at the power consumption part, it seems 4-way CF only consumes about 60W more than 2-way SLI? Can't say I am all that surprised but damn those Fermi's are hungry as hell
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It just shows how much better nVidia is to SLI than ati is to CFX, ati fails to deliver.
surely can not matter that ati does not use that much power when you get nothing for it
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Oh good grief, let's not start this.
Crossfire scaling is a bit hit-and-miss, just as SLi scaling is so also. Some games will work fine, with great scaling, others will not. There are so many variables, most of which we know nothing of the state of in a particular case - game engine, dev access to drivers and hardware, driver team access to dev team and game code, engine peculiarities, etc - that it's impossible to make statements like "ATi sucks" or "nVidia sucks". Either might suck in one particular game, but that's no reflection on the company in general.
Thanks to OP for great review.
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Thanks for the review
Now can we get 4x 2GB 5870's and retest?
I am interested to see if the extra vram helps frame rate scaling on the ATI side, especially with different levels of AA
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thnx for the numbers.
why 5870 vs 480 not 470?
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The tech seems to be title dependant, I can't say that QuadFire or Quad-SLI has an edge in scaling over the other...
Great info, thanks for posting!
Thanks for the review
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