Benchmark: Battlefield 3
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Review: HEXUS.net/qa7yc | Where2buy: amazon.co.uk |
Homepage: battlefield.com/battlefield3 | Publisher: Electronic Arts | Developer: EA Digital Illusions CE |
Battlefield 3 is one of the most popular PC games of the year and features breathtaking visuals and an absorbing multiplayer component.
| Dual-GPU scaling in Battlefield 3 |
CrossFire at 1080p | CrossFire at 1600p | SLI at 1080p | SLI at 1600p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85.2% | -0.7% | 66.4% | 81.7% |
Battlefield 3 tends to perform well on NVIDIA cards, and our head-to-head comparison doesn't disagree.
In this hugely-popular first-person shooter, EVGA's SuperClocked GTX 580 comes out fractionally ahead of Sapphire's OverClocked Radeon HD 7950 in single-GPU configurations, and there's a twist in the dual-GPU tale as well.
The AMD and NVIDIA solutions both scale well at 1,920x1,080, but at 2,560x1,600, the Radeons don't scale at all. Another driver issue, we reckon.