Report : 1, 2 or 3 graphic cards?
by Damien Triolet
Published on January 25, 2008
Recap of gains
To finish up with all of these numbers, we created a graph that takes all average gains per rendering mode:
As you can see, overall results do not really set SLI apart from CrossFire. These two technologies are equivalent; however, depending on the product and conditions they alternately take the lead. Besides recent games, you will have to play in 2560x1600 to benefit from triple SLI but this was only to be expected. In theory, gains displayed by the GeForce 8800 GT should always be higher than those from two GeForce 8800 Ultras; however this was not the case as soon as there were increases in complexity. The GeForce 8800 GT’s 512 MB was not always enough.
