HD 3850 Crossfire vs. 8800GTS 512MB G92

nightscope

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"Some", that must be where the 3850 beats the 8800 GTS.

Yes, premature drivers should be the reason to the performance gap between them. Plus the motherboard they used isn't the Spider platform. The platform of which these cards perform optimally on.
 

chookman

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I notice they dont give you single card results on the 3850...

Definetly premature drivers... as is always said 1 fast GPU is usually better all round than 2 mid range
 

bstep1989

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i really would not trust that resource. in just about every single review i have seen on other sites, 3850 256 crossfired is equivilant to the GTX and sometimes even the Ultra on many benchmarks...this is the only review i have seen where crossfired 3850s get beat by a single 8800GT
 

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http://www.legitreviews.com/article/607/1/

Um...yeah. 3850 Crossfire beats an Ultra in Crysis, and the 3870 Crossfire beats the Ultra at everything. It was released two days ago, so I'm guessing they were using the latest driver. So drivers do make a difference! omgsh!