Benchmark Results: Grand Theft Auto IV
At 1680x1050 and 1920x1200, all of these cards are fairly playable (Grand Theft Auto IV has its own render pipeline and does not support anti-aliasing through the game’s control panel or manually-forced in the display driver).
The Radeon HD 5850 loses out to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285 at 2560x1600, though it’s able to catch up in CrossFire mode, where all three dual-board setups max out our 4 GHz CPU.
Notable also is that the GeForce GTX 295’s 896MB of memory per GPU isn’t enough to run the demanding settings we’ve chosen to try taxing these boards at 2560x1600.