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Introduction - NVIDIA GeForce 3-Way SLI and Radeon Tri-Fire Review | [H]ard|OCP
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Conclusion - NVIDIA GeForce 3-Way SLI and Radeon Tri-Fire Review | [H]ard|OCP
My bad. Mods move it to gfx card section.
The Bottom Line
AMD Radeon Tri-Fire is giving you the same or better performance than GTX 580 3-Way SLI for $500 and 200 watts less. You get both a money savings and a power savings using Radeon 6990/6970 Tri-Fire instead of GeForce GTX 580 3-Way SLI.
It just makes no sense to build a GTX 580 3-Way SLI currently. AMD Radeon 6990/6970 Tri-Fire is better in terms of value, efficiency, and gaming performance than GTX 580 3-Way SLI. If you want to utilize that performance, the 2GB of RAM per GPU on the Radeon HD 6970 will allow you to do this and provide a noticeable gameplay experience and visual improvement over GTX 580 3-Way SLI. No other conclusion can be made at this point, AMD Radeon HD 6970 Tri-Fire is a tremendous value compared to GTX 580 3-Way SLI, and Tri-Fire is the better choice for multi-display gaming.
Given NVDIA's history of excellent SLI scaling, we expected to see the GeForce GTX 580 3-Way SLI dominating AMD Radeon Tri-Fire. Instead, this review has only further reinforced what an incredible value AMD's current generation video cards really are.
In fact, the best case was that GTX 580 3-Way SLI matched Radeon Tri-Fire performance. In none of these games did the average framerate of GTX 580 3-Way SLI exceed that of AMD Radeon HD 6990/6970 CrossFireX. This is bad news for the GTX 580 3-Way SLI folks, considering the Radeon HD 6990 wasn't even running in its OC performance mode. On top of that, three separate Radeon HD 6970 video cards offering triple-GPU performance will be faster still since those have faster core clock speeds and faster RAM speed than what we tested here.
the power consumption -
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Conclusion - NVIDIA GeForce 3-Way SLI and Radeon Tri-Fire Review | [H]ard|OCP
My bad. Mods move it to gfx card section.