My buying relies on better performance and price. Will you drop your profiling thing! I'm looking at current results of games, not games nobody knows about. And thats how most ppl make their decision.
You have no idea what you are talking about. I'm bringing you reviews/scores how well does 5800 scales, and every damn review out there admits its a great product and the best so far.
Best product overall. It scales great. It is, by far, the best single card solution, it is very efficient, and it support all the latest tech.
LMAO, you've already clearly demonstrated you have NO CLUE what you're talking about whatsoever. I'm not dropping the profiling thing, its obvious its 100% pertinent to my point and this thread, as once again, driver and hardware performance relies 100% on driver profiles. I don't see how this is hard to understand lol.
You're cherry-picking scores for particular games that prove your point, but by definition, fall flat on their face when I show compilations and entire reviews that clearly show CF scaling is worst than SLI. There's no other way to explain the fact a single 5870 does NOT maintain its performance lead over GTX 285 once you start adding additional cards in CF/SLI. How is that not hard to understand?
Its not only Crysis. Its all the games. (except maybe your Batman game and NFS shift, which both are consolized games anyway). Every other "PC" game is faster on 5800 series (much faster) than anything Nvidia offers at that price and scales better.
BS its all games, you're once again flat out lying about things you don't know about. I've already given you a compilation that filters results for all games and multiple resolutions that clearly show SLI scales better than CF, I could pull hundreds of reviews that come to the same conclusion as well but you're clearly not worth the effort.
As for Batman and NFS: Shift, lol, they may be consolized games, but the fact remains they scale better on Nvidia hardware because they have
proper driver profiles.......
I don't care about those stuff. I just want to start the game and play.
Then why comment igorantly about features you don't care about or have no clue about how they work? Features like this are extremely important to anyone interested in SLI and a big reason I wouldn't go ATI, the reason should be obvious. If Nvidia by chance forgot to flag the proper bits themselves in a driver, I can manually force those bits and force SLI or AA. With AMD, you can't do that nearly as effectively which means users are typically forced to try and rename the .exe or sit there and wait for AMD to fix their drivers. Oh ya, the 9.10 WHQL came out and still no fix for NFS: Shift. You may not care about it, but there's quite a lot of people who are pissed about it.
forums.amd.com/game/messa...Yes, Nvidia always had the upper hand with Crysis. But it was never great. The scaling for Crysis was always bad (~30 FPS), even now its not awesome.
BS, its near 75% for the first card and another 40-50% for the third card for Nvidia, for ATI, well, they finally got their X2 parts to scale a few months ago, a year after release lol.
What about other games?
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=20354&page=5Oh yeah, 5870 is cheaper, DX11 (and all the goodies that come with it), has 27W on idle, much cooler...
Really, whats your point? should someone really buy 285 SLI instead of 5870 CF? I've been across forums and everyone goes for 5800...
LMAO wtf......You do realize your own link verifies my point right? Even though the 5870CF scales well, the 285 in SLI scales more efficiently. This
DOES NOT MEAN ITS FASTER OVERALL. LMAO.
Even in their conclusion its very clear:
[quote=Hexus.net]The maturity of both CrossFireX and SLI technologies is plain to see. The
GeForce GTX 285 in particular shows that in certain scenarios a performance increase of over [COLOR="Red"]90 per cent[/COLOR] can be had when a second GPU is added to the mix.