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@ 2006/08/30We're primarily concerned with extreme hi-res gaming here, so we're going to benchmark these cards at two resolutions: 1600x1200 and 2560x1600. We'll test them both raw, and then again with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering enabled.
For comparison's sake, we're going to include ATI's Radeon X1900 Crossfire, their previous best configuration, along with a pair of GeForce 7900 GTX cards in SLI. We used two different brand 7900 GTX cards—XFX's overclocked XXX model and eVGA's less-aggressively overclocked version. To maintain stability, we had to clock them at the slower of the two cards' settings: 675GHz for the core and 1.63GHz for the RAM. This is still slightly faster than the reference clock speed of 650GHz and 1.6GHz.
For comparison's sake, we're going to include ATI's Radeon X1900 Crossfire, their previous best configuration, along with a pair of GeForce 7900 GTX cards in SLI. We used two different brand 7900 GTX cards—XFX's overclocked XXX model and eVGA's less-aggressively overclocked version. To maintain stability, we had to clock them at the slower of the two cards' settings: 675GHz for the core and 1.63GHz for the RAM. This is still slightly faster than the reference clock speed of 650GHz and 1.6GHz.
