Performance in First-Person 3D Shooters

Call of Duty: World at War

Starting from version 1.3 we use the game’s integrated benchmarking options together with a custom demo record. Unfortunately, this method does not report the bottom frame rate.

The Quad SLI platform’s advantage over the single GeForce GTX 295 is growing up along with the display resolution from 19 to 47%, yet even this 47% performance increase can hardly justify the increased amount of noise and high power consumption as well as the financial investment into the second GeForce GTX 295. Besides, the system with three GeForce GTX 285 is faster. AMD’s solutions with two Radeon HD 4870 X2 or three Radeon HD 4890 feel far more confident than the pair of GeForce GTX 295 cards. That’s not an encouraging beginning, really.

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

The game uses deferred rendering and does not support FSAA. Instead, it uses integrated antialiasing algorithms that make use of the GPU’s computing resources.

The GeForce GTX 295 tandem has problems in this game. The two extra GPUs provoke a twofold performance hit relative to the single such card. The 3-way SLI behaves in the same way, losing to the ordinary GeForce GTX 285 SLI pair. AMD’s solutions feel much better. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 tandem delivers an excellent performance at 2560x1600.