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I just want to pose a quick question. Do you think there is something wrong with the new VGA charts? They generally show the 7950 GX2 being beaten soundly by a nice amount of cards. For example, at max settings in HL2 Episode 1, the chart shows the GX2 being beaten by the X1900XTX by 50%!

Something is very wrong with that! And yet, for example, check this site out 7950 GX2 review. Maybe I'm just being stupid, but isn't THG wrong, or at least spinning the results (because don't you need to have SLI enabled for the GX2?)?

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You should have used a better example than HL2.

It usually extracts a performace penalty running multi-GPU solutions under its engine, especially SLI. The 7950GX2 is SLI "on a stick" so to speak, just one PEG.

Hense why its beaten by other single GPU solutions.

Reply to raven_87

I concur.

I just visited Anandtech's review of the new ATI 1950 series, as well as one other, and it showed the 7950 handing all their hats and showing them the door, especially at 1600x1200 and above.

Anyone on the Tom's team care to comment?

Reply to Granite3

Why does no one care that THG severely understated the 7950 GX2's performance? Everywhere else, I've seen it spanking the single gpu X1900 XTX solution around. That's not the case here though.

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Why does no one care that THG severely understated the 7950 GX2's performance? Everywhere else, I've seen it spanking the single gpu X1900 XTX solution around. That's not the case here though.

I know quad SLI doesn't perform well with 4xaa, not sure why the7950GX2 alone did so poorly. They tried to answer your question though, and I agree 16x12 HL2 isn't really a good comparison.

Anyway, it Didn't spank it in this review: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/arti [...] h1c2lhc3Q=
The X1900XTX lost, but the X1950XTX won compared to the 7950GX2.

quote "Overall, with very few exceptions, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX provided a noticeable and tangible improvement in the gameplay experience over the Radeon X1900 XTX. Compared to the BFGTech GeForce 7950 GX2 it even performed better than that in some games, while in others they were even. Simply put, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX won more games and scenarios than it lost them compared to the BFGTech GeForce 7950 GX2."

Reply to pauldh

What about the thing I keep hearing about crossfire being unstable. I've ask around for a while and everyone told me to go with SLI since more games will be playable while the crossfire will give me a lot of headaches.

Like I said many times, I don't care what graphic card I get, as long as it is stable and gives what I've paid for. If going Crossfire is gonna get me sleepless nights of problems, I'm going SLI even if the benchmarks are below.

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