CrossFire Versus SLI Scaling: Does AMD's FX Actually Favor GeForce?
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Thomas Soderstrom
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We've heard it said before that AMD's GPUs are more platform-dependent than Nvidia's. So, what happens when you drop a Radeon and a GeForce into an FX-8350-based system? Does AMD's CPU get in the way of its GPU running as well as it possibly could?
Results: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
The FX-8350 appears to hamper the frame rates of CrossFire and SLI configurations alike in Skyrim. More taxing detail levels have little effect on the shape of the chart, though the numbers assigned to those colored bars are a little lower.
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