Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark03

The RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire platform scores 26,650 points in 3DMark03 which is the highest result we’ve ever recorded. The SLI configuration with two GeForce 7800 GTX are not far behind, though, and the single GeForce 7800 GTX 512 nearly hit the 20,000 mark and would certainly have a higher total score than the ATI RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire if combined with another such card. That’s why we can’t claim the RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire is an unrivalled leader in this test.

The RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire is faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX SLI in all the three FSAA modes, the gap being as wider as a more difficult FSAA level is turned on. And we’ve got such results in a test that does not match well the complex-shader-oriented RADEON architecture and never uses rendering techniques other than described by DirectX 7.

The RADEON X1800 XT CrossFire wins the second test (again, we don’t count in the performance of a SLI platform with two GeForce 7800 GTX 512 which is yet to be tested in our labs). Unlike in the first test, there is a much smaller difference between the two multi-GPU platforms.