[Crossfire vs SLI] 780Ti/780/290X/290 x Dual/Triple/Quad

[DGLee]

Hello guys. I'm a newbie on this forum. Glad to post this thread here.



I tested four flagship single-GPU graphics cards scale one to four respectively, along with AMD/NVIDIA's existing 2-GPU SKUs such as 7990, GTX 690 and ASUS 760 MARS. Test presets are as follows : 1920 x 1080 without AA, 1920 x 1080 with 4x AA, 2560 x 1600 without AA, 2560 x 1600 with 4x AA, 3840 x 2160 without AA and 3840 x 2160 with 4x AA. Other hardware configurations and softwares used are as follow image:





(Note that I'm going to upload results under Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) only since there're tons of imgs and results under Full HD (1920 x 1080) and Quad HD (2560 x 1600) are nearly meaningless in terms of CF/SLI scalability. You can read the full text here: http://udteam.tistory.com/585)

Here's the results:

1. Aliens vs Predator (without AA / with 4x AA)




2. Batman : Arkham City (without AA / with 4x AA)




3. Battlefield 3 (without AA / with 4x AA)




4. Battlefield 4 (without AA / with 4x AA)




5. Bioshock : Infinite (without DDOF / with DDOF)




6. Call of Duty : Ghosts (without AA / with 4x AA)




7. Company of Heroes 2 (without AA / with AA : Medium)




8. Crysis : Warhead (without AA / with 4x AA)




9. Crysis 2 (without AA / with 4x AA)




10. Crysis 3 (without AA / with 4x AA)




11. DiRT : Showdown (without AA / with 4x AA)




12. Far Cry 3 (without AA / with 4x AA)




13. Hitman : Absolution (without AA / with 4x AA)




14. Just Cause 2 (without AA / with 4x AA)




15. Metro 2033 (with AAA / with 4x AA)




16. Metro : Last Light (without AA / with SSAA)




17. Sleeping Dogs (without AA / with AA : Extreme)




18. Splinter Cell : Black List (without AA / with 4x AA)




19. The Witcher 2 (without UberSampling / with UberSampling)




20. Tomb Raider : Reboot (without AA / with 4x AA)




Now we've covered 20 game titles. Here are two summaries for absolute framerate and CF/SLI scalability.

- UHD Performance Summary (without AA / with 4x AA)




- UHD Scalability Summary (without AA / with 4x AA)




Okay. That's all.
Thanks for reading my thread! :-)

[QuadDamage]

[FlanK3r]

very nice review! Hard work bench it all.

[Ace123]

Thats alot of work holy smokes, good job

[walshlg]

WOW thanks for the hard work. Q: is that average framerate or minimum framerate? The * by the quad 780 setup means a special mod - what do you think of it?

[thegt1]

Great job, ever think about using other programs besides games.

[testman78]

epic review

[owikh84]

This is the best single & multi GPU review ever!
Thanks for your great effort and time!

[DGLee]

^^ Thanks for your comments. Since the original version was written in Korean(which is merely recognizable to most of you guys) I want to recommend you to use Google translation service or Bing's equivalent or whatever similar until I rewrite and re-upload this article in English. I guess this will be done within this year(which is just 10+ days left). Well, sorry for language barrier(btw this barrier is bi-directional! I'm also struggling with using English...) and thanks again for your concerning.

I promise that I'll feedback all comments left here within a couple of days(or weeks). Then, have a nice day!

[Vicey]

This must have taken you a very long time to do, thank you for taking the time to do it!