P67, X58, And NF200: The Best Platform For CrossFire And SLI

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Intel’s flagship X58 chipset supports three-way SLI and triple-channel RAM, while its fastest gaming processor is stuck with a far less-capable P67 platform. With multiple GPU installations hanging in the balance, which solution should you choose?

CrossFire Platform Performance: Crysis

The X58 platforms fall significantly behind at our lowest Crysis settings, though these are too CPU-bottlenecked to show the benefits of a third card.

CPU bottlenecks continue to hold back the X58 platform, even at our highest Crysis test settings, though GPU limitations play a role in the poor scaling of the third GPU. P67 leads, and the NF200 PCIe bridge helps it slightly.

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.