NVIDIA's Tiny 90nm G71 and G73: GeForce 7900 and 7600 Debut
by Derek Wilson on March 9, 2006 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Battlefield 2 High-End Performance
We have finally ironed out our issues with BF2 and SLI, so this time around we get to compare ATI and NVIDIA in multi GPU configurations. DICE has said in the past that results over 100 fps are not always reliable. It will suffice to say that CrossFire leads SLI at the low two resolutions. Putting a finer point on it goes against what we know of the benchmark's behavior. Interestingly, at higher resolutions (above 1600x1200), while the 7900 GTX and 7900 GT fall further behind ATI's single card solutions, SLI is able to take the lead from CrossFire. This would seem to indicate that SLI has a bit more of a CPU limitation at the low end than CrossFire, but that it is ultimately much more efficient in BF2.
We have finally ironed out our issues with BF2 and SLI, so this time around we get to compare ATI and NVIDIA in multi GPU configurations. DICE has said in the past that results over 100 fps are not always reliable. It will suffice to say that CrossFire leads SLI at the low two resolutions. Putting a finer point on it goes against what we know of the benchmark's behavior. Interestingly, at higher resolutions (above 1600x1200), while the 7900 GTX and 7900 GT fall further behind ATI's single card solutions, SLI is able to take the lead from CrossFire. This would seem to indicate that SLI has a bit more of a CPU limitation at the low end than CrossFire, but that it is ultimately much more efficient in BF2.
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DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
One of the reasons I just picked up 2 7900GTX boards. That, and I've been hearing of more and more problems with Crossfire.Rogue 2 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
On "The Competition" page, they're showing the 7600GT w/ 256 bit memory bus, and the 6800GS w/ 128 bit memory bus. Isn't it exactly the opposite?DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
yes -- fixedDigitalFreak - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Power test info is missing.DarthPierce - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Yep... I see no graphs :)DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
fixedDarthPierce - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
I think the 7900GTX vs 7800 GTX512 graph is also missingDerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Do you mean 7900 GT vs. 7800 GTX? We didn't do a seperated 7800 GTX 512 vs. 7900 GTX comparison.BigLan - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
"Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's newest graphics cards: the 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and the 7900 GT."Should that be 7900 GT and the 7600 GT ?
SpaceRanger - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
That was the first thing I noticed too... Pretty obvious typo that should have been caught.