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 AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire

 By: Hilbert Hagedoorn | Edited by John A. Johnsen | Published: June 20, 2008  

   


Okay then, let's fire up another round of benchmarks. Now we put the Force3D and Powercolor cards together and activate Crossfire mode. The results though not 100% stable, where quite interesting none the less.

Crossfire: Call of Duty 4

Image Quality setting:

  • 4x Anti Aliasing
  • 16x anisotropic filtering
  • All settings maxed out

Okay, there will be some strong losses and wins in Crosfire mode, by the way these results will soon be placed in our VGA charts where you can compare yourself blind with other SLI and crossfire results.

For this Crossfire test I opted to insert the dual GPU based Radeon 3870 X2, the dual GPU based GeForce 9800 GX2 en then the 4850 in single and dual-gpu mode. Crossfire kicks in massively, and add to that the new trick ATI found in their drivers to boost performance. That's just amazing for 400 USD.

 

Crossfire: Crysis - Single Player v1.2

With mankind facing an alien cataclysm, your elite Delta force and North Korean forces combine, united by common humanity in a battle to save Earth. Graphically stunning, tactically challenging and always intensely immersive, Crysis sets player choice at the heart of its gameplay, with customizable tactical weaponry and adaptable armor allowing instant response to changing conditions. Crysis doesn't feel all that different from its predecessor, Far Cry. Both are set on an island. Both involve a latent alien menace. Both bid you move more or less linearly through shaggy jungle areas, where the fact that you're progressing in a single direction is camouflaged by your ability to approach obstacles in your path any way you like. Think the "every time you play a situation yields radically different behaviors and results" approach in games like Rainbow Six Vegas or Gears of War except on more of a geographic scale.

Oh yeah, you probably want to hear about how it performs, right?

Image Quality setting:

  • 0x Anti Aliasing
  • 16x anisotropic filtering

Now I've just told you, you win some you lose some with Crossfire, and it will always be that way. For Crysis Crossfire would just not kick in. Such a shame really.





 

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