Far Cry

Far Cry is the first game where the new chipset from Nvidia brings about a nice performance bonus of up to 10%. As we supposed, you can enjoy it in extreme antialiasing modes only. Here, it is the SLI AA 8x mode. Note that the SLI pair of GeForce 7800 GTX cards delivers a playable frame rate in 1280x1024 or even higher resolutions. The image quality is noticeably higher at that than with the traditional 4x FSAA, especially if you also turn on the transparent textures super-sampling.

The performance is limited by other factors in the SLI AA 16x mode, probably by the graphics memory frequency of the GeForce 7800 GTX. That’s why there’s little profit from the two complete PCI Express 16x slots.

The advantage of the nForce4 SLI X16 chipset is even more conspicuous on the Research map. The amount of data transferred across the PCI Express bus is probably larger here than in the previous test. Well, even the 10% performance gain doesn’t make the SLI AA 16x mode playable, although you can try to run the game in 1280x1024 on the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe.