About a month ago, I posted the article <Crossfire vs SLI : Flagship Gang Fight> which tested 4 flagship VGAs from two major manufacturer, AMD and NVIDIA - R9 290X, R9 290, GTX 780 Ti and GTX 780 with single, dual, triple and quad Crossfire / SLI configurations. If we could ignore the issues come along with CF such as microstuttering OR if the issues were ignoreably small, then there is a clear way forward us : CFing Radeons benefits more than SLIing GeForces not only in terms of scalability but also in terms of absolute frame per second. 4x R9 290 actually faster than 4 x GTX 780 Ti in several cases I tested, indeed, even 3 x R9 290X bests more numerous configuration of its rivals more than a couple of fights.
At this moment, what we should remind is, however, digits in our bank account. It's obvious that a R9 290 is very attractive combination of sexy performance and affordability yet we are already aware of the absolute fact that everything is relative. R9 290's affordability could only be derived by comparing it with GTX 780 or GTX 780 Ti, not R9 280X nor GTX 770. How about CF/SLIing a pair of R9 280X or GTX 770 then? Could they be more affordable way to taste TITAN-class performance? That's why I planned this spin-off.
Here are result analysis part.
(I apologize that I cannot even try to upload the entire images due to traffic issues, because they are so many. You may see the whole results from my blog: http://udteam.tistory.com/604)
Here are the scalability analysis part.
Thanks for reading :-)
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