XFX NVIDIA 8800 GTX SLI

XFX NVIDIA 8800 GTX

XFX NVIDIA 8800 GTX

benchmarks for the 8800 GTX SLI system. The test machine uses the following components:

• CPU- Intel X6800
• RAM- Crucial PC2 8000 2 x 1GB
• HDD- 1x 74GB Raptor, 1x 750 GB Seagate
• Mainboard: EVGA nForce 680i
• PSU: Top Power 1000W

For the benchmarks I used 3DMark06, FEAR, Oblivion and Battlefield 2142. The first test up was 3DMark06 with the following results ran at defaults on 3DMark and defaults in the NVIDIA control panel as well.

• Total 3DMarks- 13,012
• SM2.0- 5866
• HDR/SM3- 7018
• CPU- 2492
• Return to Proxycon- 47.769
• Firefly Forest- 49.990
• Canyon Flight- 78.886
• Deep Freeze- 61.469
• CPU1- 0.0796
• CPU2- 1.249

To compare a single 8800 GTX on the same system, save for an abit AW9D-Max mainboard scored 10,355 3DMarks.

The next test I ran was with Battlefield 2142. BF2142 is a very popular game that while not overtly taxing for hardware really scales well performance wise for different graphics cards. Gamers that play BF2142 on slow machines and have to turn their settings down might as well be playing a different title graphics wise that the gamer that runs BF2142 maxed out. For this test I ran the game at max settings with the NVIDIA control panel set to 16x AA and 16xQ AF at a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200 and all game settings at max. The frame rates were recorded with FRAPS and are as follows:

• Min- 47
• Avg- 58
• Max- 74

I noticed no problems whatsoever in the game play at these seriously high settings. Everything ran as smooth and fluid as it would at 640 x 480 on lesser rigs.

The next game title that I tested with was FEAR. FEAR is a very demanding game title graphically. For this test I turned all in game settings to max at 1920 x 1200 screen resolution and used 16x AA and 16xQ AF from the NVIDIA control panel. These setting would be impossible on any other gaming machine, but not so on my 8800 GTX system, look at this frame rate data:

• Min- 31
• Avg- 50
• Max- 93

Those numbers are phenomenal even more so when you stop to think the settings I am using here for testing are actually higher than what the game alone can run. I could have played FEAR all night at these settings and never had a problem with frame rates.

Normally I don’t test with Oblivion, but for grins I started in up at the same super high settings of 1920 x 1200, 16x AA and 16xQ AF in an outdoor environment with lots of water, trees and moving grass. I was floored to get frame rates with 8800 GTX SLI that I typically get on other machines with settings a much lower levels, Fraps recorded an average frame rate of a bit over 43 frames per second. Most machines struggle to run Oblivion at that frame rate running at medium settings.

Overall, XFX 8800 GTX SLI will play any game about there at settings higher than what you can get in the game alone and not blink and eye. There is no doubt that this is the best performing graphics platform ever. Nothing else on the market comes close to the performance you can get with a pair of XFX 8800 GTX graphics cards in your gaming machine.