Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

Trying to minimize the CPU influence in 3DMark Vantage we used the Extreme profile (1920x1200, 4x FSAA and anisotropic filtering).

Looks like ATI does in fact pay most attention to optimizing the functioning of CrossFireX technology. Although this time they didn’t claim any improvements in 3DMark Vantage, Radeon HD 4890 CrossFireX tandem reached a noticeably higher total score with Catalyst 9.5 than with version 9.4.

The results of individual benchmarks show that the gain actually happens only in the first one of them and is most significant in 1920x1200 resolution reaching 9%. In all other cases the performance difference between the two Catalyst driver versions is no more than 1-3%.