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Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2
DirectX 10 Titles
 Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes @ 1440 x 900
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81
54
48
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
71
44
40
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
Company of Heroes @ 1680 x 1050
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73
45
40
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
61
36
33
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
Crysis
Crysis @ 1440 x 900
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47
45
42
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
47
45
21
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
Crysis @ 1680 x 1050
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46
39
36
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
46
38
17
0
FPS (higher is better)
100
Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3 @ 1440 x 900
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129
95
94
0
FPS (higher is better)
150
51
51
49
0
FPS (higher is better)
150
Unreal Tournament 3 @ 1680 x 1050
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97
86
79
0
FPS (higher is better)
150
41
39
37
0
FPS (higher is better)
150
Performance Notes CrossFire does Company of Heroes a lot of good here, despite it being "made for NVIDIA." But it stops there. With anti-aliasing turned up, the card ties with, and even does worse than, a single-GPU 3870 1024 (256-bit bus). Crisis is no better. I should say, though, that the minimum FPS in all the titles was a lot smoother, with little or no tearing--the advantage of alternate-frame rendering.
Page 1: Introduction, The Card & Bundle
Page 2: Specifications and Testing Setup Page 3: DirectX 10 Titles Page 4: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 5: Video, Power, and Overclocking Page 6: Conclusion 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
dude81
on June 3, 2008 - 6:07 am "Best, er, only dual-GPU ATI card". What about 3850 X2?
2 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on June 3, 2008 - 11:53 am Yeah, I wrote that before it was released. Kurtis, can we retract that? Also, Diamond has informed us that it was a mis-print that their 1GB 3870 has a 512-bit ring bus; it's still an impressive card, but it's just 256-bit.
3 - Posted by
Kurtis
on June 3, 2008 - 12:00 pm dude81: Thanks for pointing out that error. That (and the 512-bit ring bus error) has now been corrected.
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