Quote Originally Posted by alfaunits View Post
Assuming this is true:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8067/w...emo/index.html
6400+ with 2x2900XT on 790G gave 12000 3DMark06.
Only the CPU change won't give 18K, but can the third card, and OCing the 3 cards give 12K even?
Why not? I think it's a combination of both. How exactly does 3DM06 calculates to the cpu score? Does the L3 give the score an extra boost? Does the wider datapath give it an extra boost? Or is the redesigned memory controler more efficient with memory bandwidth? Perhaps it's the native quad core that works more efficient. Well I've never digged into 3DM06's calculations so I don't know.

My point is that there are so many unknown factors that it's not easy to say if it's "impossible" or not on this new platform with only 2 cards. As said before, Conroe is not much faster than the K8 in 3DM06.

So until we get a confirmation all we can do is speculate about it.
One thing is sure, AMD's new platform looks promising. Even if 3 Cards is needed for those scores, you bet it will be a success for AMD.

True or not, TriFire or not, it doesn't matter. Many are now even more interested than ever and all focussed on AMD. Penryn? Intel gave too much of it away already, there's nothing "new" about it anymore. In fact some are disappointed by it's performance. So even if Phenom turns out to be 5% faster, most will go for Phenom and the TriFire option.

I'm more interested in the performance between AMD's chipset and nVidia's.
On this new platform.