Gainward's 7900GTX/7900GTX SLI review
- Bliss 7900GTX/7900GTX SLI - Page 3
Author: Luka Rakamaric
Date: 16 Mar 2006
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Model
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7900GTX
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7900 GTX SLI
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X1900XTX
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Battlefield 2
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103.84
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222.43
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107.45
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Far Cry
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75.39
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129.76
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79.43
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Riddick
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19.38
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36.97
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18.22
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F.E.A.R.
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30
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51
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27
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Quake 4
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52.8
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78.7
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47.6
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With some eye-candy options turned on, the situation is still the same, but now the SLI
configuration is considerably faster as there are no CPU limitations. The numbers in BF2 are really weird ("weird" being the positive word here), as SLI configuration shows more than a 100 percent increase. NVIDIA?s new G71 is surely a top spot contender, and although it does not outperform the competition as convincingly as its predecessors, the general impression is that it is virtually the same. The good thing for NVIDIA is that it does that with considerably less noise and heat, which is really annoying with the ATI card. If NVIDIA manages to offer the card to the end user at a lower price than ATI, we think that it will be much more successful (we heard that the suggested retail price should be around $509).
One final note - we were really amazed about one thing, and that's the difference in power consumption when you have a SLI system and Crossfire system (and we had both of those in our improvised CeBIT Lab). We had an extra PowerStream 600W in case we need more power. OCZ's PowerStream 520W runs SLI 7900 GTX system dead cold (and I mean dead cold), with vents working like they're on vacation. When we connected the same PSU to the Crossfire system, it was really, really hot. Talk about effective architecture design...
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