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George Ross, November 22, 2009
| Processor | AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition @ 3.8GHz | |
| Motherboard | FOXCONN A79A-S | |
| Memory | G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 1100 (PC2 8800) @ 533MHz (DDR 1066) 5-5-5-15 Dual Channel Mode | |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB 7200 RPM 32MB cache SATA 3.0Gb/s | |
| Video Cards | MSI Radeon HD 4890 @ 880 MHz core 999 MHz (3996 Gb/s) memory Catalyst 9.11 |
MSI Radeon HD 4890 @ 880 MHz core 999 MHz (3996 Gb/s) memory MSI Radeon HD 4890 @ 880 MHz core 999 MHz (3996 Gb/s) memory Catalyst 9.11 |
| Optical Disk Drive | Pioneer DVR-215DBK | |
| Power Supply | Rosewill Xtreme RX750-S-B 750W | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | |
Using CrossFire gives you a 17% increase in 3D Marks in 3D Mark 06.
CrossFire yields an 8% increase in overall average frames per second in the Unreal Tournament III.
In Crysis the CrossFire setup only manages to outpace the single card setup by only 2%. However it is clear that using CrossFire to play Crysis does pay off with the higher resolutions and higher quality settings.
In World in Conflict the CrossFire setup only outpaces the the single GPU setup by less than 1% in overall average frames per second in these tests, but notice how the CrossFire setup starts to outpace the single GPU setup under the higher resolutions and quality settings.
Devil May Cry 4 shows us how CrossFire should perform across all games by giving you an 82% increase in overall average frames per second when compared to the single GPU setup.
Resident Evil 5 continues to prefer a single GPU over CrossFire.
Taking all game tests into consideration the CrossFire setup bests the single GPU setup by 30%.
