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Triple-GPU Scaling: AMD CrossFire Vs. Nvidia SLI

Post Date: 2011-03-14
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    Posted: 14 Mar 2011 at 9:13pm
Check it out!  Maybe should have gone in hardware forum but here it is. 

Edited by 10Broken - 14 Mar 2011 at 9:29pm
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Trust tom's as far as you can throw it, its full of BS, specially when its nvidia vs ati, they always lean toward nvidia, and this is coming from an nvidia fan, but I'm not fan of BS and bad info. I left tom's for that reason few years ago.


I would believe that if I saw it at a few creditable sites

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Did we read the same article, cause it so leans to ATI in a multiple card setup.
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few problems, outdated drivers, HDD bottleneck, CPU bottleneck, PCI E lane bottleneck, which skews 3 scaling, for 3 or 4 cards, it takes a ton of speed, and bandwidth to keep the cards from being bottleneck.
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Aren't all the bottlenecks the same for the comparisons?
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 11:40am
no, how AMD/Nvidia respond to the wire frames that the CPU creates it different, and varies with each engine used in the specific game.
The amount of various bandwidths will vary, the design of, and how each card manufacturer deal with various AA, shaders, ect is vastly different.
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So is there any validity to these results or is it a bunch bs like DST said?
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 15 Mar 2011 at 1:17pm

there is some, but, with better drivers, better equipment, the results would be vastly different on the benchmarks that show obvious bottlenecking.

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Posts: 41 		  Quote 10Broken Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 16 Mar 2011 at 11:22pm
@DST4ME, didn't mean to get you all riled up bud!
 
So, feeling crapy about possibly posting bad info/review I did more research and found you and Justin were both right respectively. That review got ripped apart by alot of people.Oops
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LOL I'm not worked up at all, if it came across like that I apologize, its unfortunate that lot of people don't know and look to tom's for good info.

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Originally posted by DST4ME

its unfortunate that lot of people don't know and look to tom's for good info.

It is a shame that for so many people being loud and obnoxious equals being right, a formula that Tom's has learned to abuse the living daylights out of for years.
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Mar 2011 at 8:59am
don't feel bad about posting any review, there is always something to learn by any review out there, even if it is what not to do. lol
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Originally posted by justin.kerr

don't feel bad about posting any review, there is always something to learn by any review out there, even if it is what not to do. lol


LOL that is always true

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