Review: EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW: making the most of NVIDIA's multi-GPU chipset

by Parm Mann on 1 November 2008, 17:53

Tags: nForce 790i SLI FTW, EVGA

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Test: Multithreaded benchmarks

HEXUS WAV encoding
LANPARTY LT X48-TR2DX48BT2nForce 790i SLI FTWnForce 790i Ultra SLI
94949494


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LANPARTY LT X48-TR2DX48BT2nForce 790i SLI FTWnForce 790i Ultra SLI
70707171


Cinebench R10 32-bit
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11651116731152111624


Cinebench R10 64-bit
LANPARTY LT X48-TR2DX48BT2nForce 790i SLI FTWnForce 790i Ultra SLI
13143130951297113016


POV-ray 32-bit
LANPARTY LT X48-TR2DX48BT2nForce 790i SLI FTWnForce 790i Ultra SLI
2671.232655.652648.082664.34


POV-ray 64-bit
LANPARTY LT X48-TR2DX48BT2nForce 790i SLI FTWnForce 790i Ultra SLI
2468.662451.412471.722470.45


When called into multi-threaded action, there's little-to-no difference between the four chipsets on show. EVGA's nForce 790i SLI FTW does fractionally fall behind on certain tests, but the gap between chipsets is within testing variances and we'd label the four as on par.