Performance: Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell
It starts to look good again for X1900 GT CrossFire with Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. In fact, CrossFire betters both 7900 GT SLI and 7950 GX2. The CrossFire performance benefit over a single card is just shy of 93%... lush!
As a single card, the X1900 GT is once again in front of the 7900 GT, while the X1950 XTX remains way out in front.
The GeForce 7900 GT suffers the biggest FPS drop of the cards on test, in both single and SLI configurations. CrossFire remains the victor, as we might expect. A sole X1900 GT remains capable of handling this game at the above settings, on our testbed.
So, what happens when we turn on High Dynamic Range effects?
In the realm of dual-GPUs, it's a much closer call, but X1900 GT CrossFire just about manages to stay out in front, rendering a 1600x1200 HDR scene at a juicy average of 85.58FPS.
With just one card, the difference between X1900 GT and 7900 GT is again mighty close, whilst X1950 XTX commands a significant lead. Swanky effects and all, the X1900 GT can still hack it.
Things start to get borderline at 1920x1200 with HDR, where there may be some noticeable stuttering at times (remember we're using average FPS figures here, so there will be peaks and troughs in performance throughout the course of the test run). However, we reckon the X1900 GT could still put up a satisfactory fight at this IQ level.
The CrossFire performance boost is again very high, at nearly 95%. SLI fares quite well too, and once again CrossFire edges out in front of the 7950 GX2.
