GeForce GTX 295 In Quad-SLI
Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2 has excellent background textures but little in the way of gore. It’s completely playable at 2560x1600 using a single GeForce GTX 280, but two GTX 295 units in Quad SLI take the bragging rights. The HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX solution appears to be CPU-bound.
Enabling anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering “unbinds” the Radeon HD 4870 X2, simply because the graphics processors can’t overtake the rest of the system at a 2560x1600 pixel resolution. The single GTX 280 is relatively smooth at our highest resolution, and two GTX 295 graphics units in Quad SLI mode maintain bragging rights.
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JeanLuc I’m looking at page 9 on the power usage charts – I have to say the GTX295 is very impressive it’s power consumption isn’t that much greater then the GTX280. And what’s very impressive is it uses 40% less power in SLI then the HD4870X2 does in Crossfire., meaning if I already owned a pretty decent PSU say around 700-800 watt’s I wouldn’t have to worry about getting it replaced if I were planning on SLIing the GTX295.Reply
I would have liked to have seen some temperatures in there somewhere as well. With top end cards becoming hotter and hotter (at least with ATI) I wonder if cheaper cases are able to cope with the temperatures these components generate.
BTW any chance of doing some sextuple SLI GTX295 on the old Intel Skulltrail?
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Crashman JeanLucBTW any chance of doing some sextuple SLI GTX295 on the old Intel Skulltrail?Reply
Not a chance: The GTX 295 only has one SLI bridge connector. NVIDIA designs its products intentionally to only support a maximum of four graphics cores, and in doing so eliminates the need to make its drivers support more. -
neiroatopelcc I'd like to see a board that takes up 3 slots, and use both the 1st and the 3rd slot's pcie connectors to power 4 gpu's on one board. Perhaps with the second pcie being optional - so in case of not fitting the card at all, one could fit it with reduced bandwidth. That way they'd have a basis to make some proper cooling. Perhaps a small h2o system, or a peltier coupled with some propler fan and heatsink.Reply
ie. a big 3x3x9" box resting on the expansion slots, dumping warm air outside. -
jameskangster "...Radeon HD 4870 X2 knocked the GeForce GTX 280 from its performanceReply
thrown." --> "throne"? or am I just misunderstanding the sentence? -
kschoche So the conclusion should read:Reply
Congrats on quad-sli, though, for anything that doesnt already get 100+ fps with a single GX2, you're welcome to throw in a second and get at most a 10-20% increase, unless of course you want to get an increase to a game that doesnt already have 100 FPS (crysis), in which case you're screwed - dont even bother with it. -
duzcizgi Why test with AA and AF turned on with such high end cards? Anyone who pays +$400 * X wouldn't be playing any game with AA AF turned off or with low res. display. (If I'd pay $800 for graphics cards, I'd have of course had a display with no less than 1920x1200 resolution. Not even 1680x1050)Reply
And I'm a little disappointed with the scaling of all solutions. They still don't scale well. -
hyteck9 The performance per watt char is exactly what I wanted to see (it would be even better with some temps listed though). Thanks THG, This will help things along nicely.Reply -
duzcizgi, don't forget about the real hardcore players (those who play tournaments for example), who prefer to play with the lower graphics settings and ensure > 100 FPS.Reply