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Two for One: Nvidia's Dual-Chip GeForce 7950 GX2 Reviewed (page 27)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Anton Shilov

[ 06/09/2006 | 06:01 PM ]

Game 2 test is considerably less overwhelming but nevertheless GeForce 7950 GX2 falls much farther behind GeForce 7900 GTX SLI than in Game 1 test.

The advantage of GeForce 7950 GX2 over GeForce 7900 GT SLI becomes more evident and reaches 10%.

With higher quality anti-aliasing modes enabled the situation is practically the same, only Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire suddenly dashes forward because its SuperAA 14x requires less resources than SLI AA 16x.

In Game 3 test GeForce 7950 GX2 remains a little ahead of GeForce 7900 GT SLI and far ahead of Radeon X1900 XTX (about 30%).

When we switch to SLI AA 8x, nothing changes. Like in the previous cases GeForce 7950 GX2 holds the position between GeForce 7900 GT SLI and GeForce 7900 GTX SLI.

The same situation can be observed with SLI AA 16x enabled.

If we compare the total 3DMark05 score with the results of individual game tests with enabled FSAA 4x, we will see that it is absolutely correct: GeForce 7950 GX2 is just a little bit ahead of GeForce 7900 GT SLI.

As for the extreme anti-aliasing modes, the new Nvidia solution may show some really impressive results. It is important to note though that the newcomer owes its great performance to the new more advanced driver version.