Review: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - getting back in the game

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 January 2008, 10:41

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Quake Wars: Enemy Territory







Performance is more even in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, run at maximum detail. We see that memory-bandwidth is more telling than core and shader speeds in this instance, with the two-card HD 3870 CrossFire leaping ahead.

We can also see that CrossFire scaling is 'only' around 1.5x a single card's - one of the pitfalls on relying on a two-GPU approach, we suppose.