Insane HD 4870X2 Crossfire-X scaling action!

[flopper]

but can it play crysis?

ofc.
just at 800x600 as the other cards.

[clonez]

lets see if warhead fixes that multi gpu problem

those numbers are impressive, though

[Luka_Aveiro]

That's a matter of how you look at it mate... I haven't seen an SLI or crossfire setup do close to 80-100 scaling in games... if these are valid ATI did a nice job on their PCB design... hope they can keep it up and translate this power via good drivers for all the games out there..

I quite believe this very good scaling is due to the CrossFireX Sideport present on the new GPUs RV770, nothing to do with PCB design

[LaMpiR]

There is no Crysis benchmarks? That's strange...

[Leeghoofd]

I quite believe this very good scaling is due to the CrossFireX Sideport present on the new GPUs RV770, nothing to do with PCB design

Yep this X2 scales way better then 2 crossfire single GPU's... it was my replay to grimpreaper who didn't seem to be impressed by these massive numbers by adding a 2nd card... gains here are huge (if true ofcourse)

[Overgloc]

first of all crysis scales poorly, and doesnt support xfire properly

second - no one should even care about crysis - it is one of the most unefficient, poorly optimised engine/game available

crysis will be perfectly playable in 2-3 years, but then we will have games that look much better than it, and run at higher frame rates

QFMFT

[AliG]

man, that's powerful, and compared to what nvidia initially wanted this will also be very price appealing (especially considering the low cost of 790gx boards for amd users)

[YMAA]

Why does every video card thread end up as a Crysis bashfest?

[ToTTenTranz]

Why does every video card thread end up as a Crysis bashfest?

Because everyone is frustrated for not being able to play the game maxed out.




Rule #1 of making games is: do not frustrate your gamers;
Rule #2 of making games is: DO NOT frustrate your gamers;






It's as if they cut the hardcore gamers' e-penises by 1/3.

[OBR]

CrossFire didnot work in Crysis ... cause we havent any scores ...

[postumus]

looks like overkill to me, a single 4870x2 will do just fine...

[Shocker003]

Where are all the Nvidia fan boys(WAR-B, have you seen these scores). All the same most people finially have something to upgrade. Maybe i will upgrade to HD 4870x2 by the end of the year, so that the price will drop and the beta drivers would have been replaced. Please is something wrong with XS mailing, as i don´t get my daily mails any longer

NB: Am not an ATI fan boy; I still use an 8800GTS

[hecktic]

Why? When did he became the king of all independent testers...?

this is XS.... he has made many non bias reviews and I have also seen many posts showing he has in fact used ATI cards just as much he does nVidia... again no bias.....

Im sure if he had a pair of 4870X2s he could really stress test them AND put them up side by side with a pair of 9800GX2s, GTX280s, etc.

so no he has not the king of all independent testers.... maybe just XS... for now

[Xello]

Same nonsense, different thread!

The reason people are asking if it can max crysis is because we already have [much cheaper] cards that can max out every other game.

Read until it sinks in

[JohnZS]

Those results are amazing...if ATi can pull off good drivers and have the support in all games they will be onto another sure winner
HD4870X2 is epic, I've not quite found a word to describe the results for the HD4870X2 Crossfire results posted....other than mouthwateringsupercduperframeratepusherFTW.
Not meaning to sound too much like an nVidia Fanboy raining on ATI's Parade but my concern is that you would require your own PowerSub Station to power your PC....but hey....this is XtremeSystems and there are few things more Xtreme than having your own dedicated Power Station
John

[Gogeta]

Thats a review of the 3870X2, not the 4870X2.

Bogus. That's what I get for blindly linking the article which was posted on Rage3D.

[Cooper]

CrossFire didnot work in Crysis ... cause we havent any scores ...

CF works in Crysis. It just doesn't scale properly

[003]

Who was it that put a tri-SLI GTX280 rig under ln2 and got a vantage extreme score of X17k? I'd love to see dual 4870X2s under ln2!

[Xello]

my concern is that you would require your own PowerSub Station to power your PC

I'm not sure it's that bad, especially compared to 3 GTX280's, or maybe even 2.

Is there anything known about its power usage?

Who was it that put a tri-SLI GTX280 rig under ln2 and got a vantage extreme score of X17k?

Sounds like KP, though i'm sure those 3 280's at stock still got a higher score than this quad-fire result, so i'm not sure ln2 would outperform tri-sli in that test.

[003]

Sounds like KP, though i'm sure those 3 280's at stock still got a higher score than this quad-fire result, so i'm not sure ln2 would outperform tri-sli in that test.

If I remember correctly, the stock score was X14K. And obviously, even at stock, the CPU being used was far faster than the phenom used for X11-12K quadfire.

[Hu1kamania]

Seems like most of those games had playable frame rates with a single card to begin with. I look forward to seeing how well CF scales in more demanding games. The horse power is there, but are the drivers?

[purecain]

hmm... looks like i'll be upgrading again.... cant wait for the reviews...

[Chewbenator]

Looks like ATI will continue to dominate the price/performance levels. That is some damn impressive scaling.

[Charles Wirth]

I would push the cards hard and I would be fair, hopefully scaling is what they claim and not epic fail in games like I have experianced before.

We will soon see from independant benchers, we all win from a good price/performance battle in the gpu market.

[Monkeywoman]

"Now it is clear what AMD means with Crossfire-X-Interconnect. It is a bidirectional link between two graphic chips with 5 GB/s. The total interconnect bandwidth by HD 4870 X2 is 21.8 GB/s against 6.4 GB/s by HD 3870 X2."

source; http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2292