Gigabyte Dual GPU: nForce4, Intel, and the 3D1 Single Card SLI Tested
by Derek Wilson on January 6, 2005 4:12 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Far Cry v1.3 Performance
With Far Cry v1.3, we basically see the same thing that we had seen under Doom 3 with no AA and AF. Performance is just about equal to normal SLI with stock 6600 GT cards except for a small percentage gain that is likely due to the memory boost of the Gigabyte solution. Again, the Intel solution starts off slow, putting in numbers that just barely best the single 6600 GT.
This time around, the 3D1, 2 x 6600 GT, and 6600 GT on the AMD system are all stuck at about the same performance point. However, the Intel SLI system makes a surprise showing and posts numbers which show that the second GPU doesn't actually need to remain useless. It just goes to show that there is some potential lying dormant in this hardware, which NVIDIA needs to unleash by flipping the switch in their drivers to allow multi-GPU on non-SLI motherboards.
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reactor - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
so basically it performs the same as sli and for the same price as the sli setup, but only works with gb boards. wouldve like to see some power/cooling comparisons and pics although ive already seen it.in the end id rather get a 6800gt.
mkruer - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Just wait we will see Dual Core GPU's soon enough.yelo333 - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
#5,#7,#9 - you've hit the nail on the head...Esp. for something like this, we need those pics!
For those who need to slake their thirst for pics, just run a google search for "gigabyte 3d1" - it turns up plenty of other review's w/ pics.
Paratus - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
Speedo - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
yea, not a single pic in the whole review...semo - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
yeah, it's bad enough i can never own onewe want to see some pretty pictures!
miketheidiot - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
I agree with #5wheres the pics?
pio!pio! - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
#4 dual core video cards in SLI on a dual core cpu dual cpu mobo w/ quad power suppliespio!pio! - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
no pics of this card in the article??Gigahertz19 - Thursday, January 6, 2005 - link
It's only a matter of time until we see dual video cards that each have dual cores in a system...>>Homer Simpson>>ahhhhhgggggaaaahhhhhhhhh Quad GPU's :)