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Affordable Multi-GPU: Two GeForce 9600 GT in SLI (page 12)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 04/19/2008 | 01:41 PM ]

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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

The new add-on to Company of Heroes is tested in DirectX 10 mode only since it provides the highest quality of the visuals.

The GeForce 9800 GTX is the only card to match the performance of the GeForce 9600 GT SLI, but the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 remains unrivalled when it comes to minimum speed. Excepting the latter, none of the cards can provide a minimum speed of higher than 15-16fps, which means inaccurate control over the game process in action-heavy scenes.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

The game has a frame rate limiter, which is why one should consider the minimum speed of a graphics card on the first place.

Although the GeForce 9600 GT SLI successfully hits the frame rate limit in every display mode, its minimum speed is somewhat lower than with the other tested solutions.

World in Conflict

Every graphics card is slow in this game. At a resolution of 1280x1024 the single GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB have a certain advantage as they deliver a somewhat higher minimum speed. On the other hand, the GeForce 9600 GT SLI can be called a leader in terms of average frame rate.