Quote Originally Posted by natty View Post
That can't be right. Crossfire 4870's score over twice as high as a single 4870???? That would mean the scaling is better than perfect.
Did you guys even read the review? I'll just quote what the reviewer had to say about it:
Quote Originally Posted by AnandTech
MD's architecture did very well under Call of Duty 4 in the single-card tests, with a single Radeon HD 4870 performing better than a GeForce GTX 260. The scaling from one to two cards is beyond perfect in CoD4, the reason being that we test on two different platforms (Intel X48 for CrossFire, NVIDIA 790i for all single-cards), the end result is a rare case where two of AMD's $300 cards actually outperform two of NVIDIA's $650 cards. By no means is it the norm, but it is a testament to the strength of AMD's RV770 GPU.
It just shows that NVIDIA's 790i is a bad chipset .