by Rob Williams on October 25, 2010 in Graphics & Displays
We took a hard look last week at AMD’s Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850, and in the end, were left impressed. The FPS/$ ratio was superb, as was the feature-set. How do things look when the same cards are tossed into a CrossFireX setup? Well, AMD claims an up to 1.99x gain in certain games, so let’s see how reliable that figure is.
From the creators of Dirt 2 comes one of the classiest racers around, F1 2010. This game features unbelievable graphics, super-fast speed and intense realism. It’s hard to go wrong. For our test, we chose to race one lap around the Monte Carlo track, lasting about two minutes.
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Dead Rising 2’s CrossFireX results were a little depressing, but things are a bit better here with F1 2010. The differences aren’t stark, though, so either this is a game that simply doesn’t benefit much from more GPU horsepower, or it doesn’t scale across multiple GPUs too well. I guess we’ll find that out with the HD 6900 series launch.