Gaming results - including SLI
It's no surprise to see the two Intel-powered machines take first place in the Far Cry low-resolution test. A single ATI Radeon X1900 XTX proves to be just a touch faster than a single GeForce 7900 GTX, as specced in the nForce 590 SLI I.E system.
Quake 4, being OpenGL, runs a tad quicker with NVIDIA hardware. Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 is almost 40FPS faster than AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 AM2.
There's not much difference between setups in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory when run at 1024x768
Add multi-GPU support and raise the resolution to 1920x1200 along with some image enhancement, so CrossFire for the ATI and Intel chipsets and SLI for the two NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Editions, and ATI comes out on top, not that an average framerate in excess of 100FPS is slow. Run, say, Quake 4 and the positions would change. With settings as high as these it matters not which CPU is used; they're GPU limited for the most part. What nForce 590 SLI I.E's arrival does is allow you to opt for SLI or CrossFire with Core 2 Duo. It's all about choice, and we welcome it for that.
