CrossFire Versus SLI Scaling: Does AMD's FX Actually Favor GeForce?

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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: Metro 2033

CrossFire performance scaling is tighter than SLI scaling in Metro 2033. Although this applies to both Intel and AMD CPUs, only the FX-8350 is able to pull down a pair of Radeon HD 7970s to the frame rates a single Radeon HD 7970 achieves. That’s a shame, since the company’s Tahiti graphics processor appears more powerful than the GeForce GTX 680's GK104.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.