4X HD 4850 CrossFireX review.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 10:49:18 Mon, June 23, 2008

TweakTown has gathered $800 worth of 4850s together to provide you the following information.

In 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, and Unreal Tournament 3:

4 HD 4850s are better than 3, and 3 HD 4850s are better than 2.

In Cinebench R10 and all the other games that they tested:

4 HD 4850s are worse than 3, and 3 HD 4850s are worse than 2.

12 Comments

Monday, June 23, 2008 11:58:12 AM

Sunny
Senior Member

Dang that kinda sucks. Its good that they have the ability to connect 4 of them but if it doesn't really work out on most applications that kinda defeats the purpose of having 4 cards.

Monday, June 23, 2008 1:13:33 PM

Shylock
n00b

I am not very surprised. I think in a few months with better crossfire X capable drivers that the game performance will be better.

Monday, June 23, 2008 2:28:59 PM

MrWizard6600
Member

you say "worse" in red like its a suprise. Give it a while man drivers are half the card.

Monday, June 23, 2008 3:49:52 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

Yes I was surprised. Yes drivers may help fix the problem.

Monday, June 23, 2008 8:45:24 PM

aliquidparadigm
Senior Member

Not really surprised, but I wouldn't've guessed worse. Surely terrible results at this early stage, but worse? Hmm.

Monday, June 23, 2008 11:11:12 PM

Duesco
Member

Well, aren't there supposed to be epic scaling issues with 2 GPUs anyway?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:57:45 PM

Shylock
n00b

I wouldn't say "epic", but there are scaling issues with 2 or more GPUs on some games.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:18:40 PM

Sunny
Senior Member

Well some people think that 2 don't really scale all that well to begin with. So I would imagine that having 4 would probably be somewhat more difficult to try and implement with applications. Although if anything I wouldn't have thought that it would have decreased in performance.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:16:26 PM

Shylock
n00b

2 scale very well on certain games. For instance I got 25 FPS higher AVG framerate in FEAR over my friend who had just 1 7900GT where I had 2.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:41:10 PM

Sunny
Senior Member

I think 2 cards can scale pretty good aswell. I just know a few people that don't think the same way or they think its not worth it. They would rather just have 1 really powerful card. But hey why have 1 when you can have 2 Ha ha ha! :P

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:46:24 PM

Shylock
n00b

Well usually 2 scale better than one very powerful card at high resolutions with AA. Other situations are not always as good.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:50:03 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

SLi/CF scale at about 50-70% ... never 100% .
So quad SLi/CFx scale ... worse .

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