GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI review

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VGA performance: Resident Evil 5 (DirectX 10)

Resident Evil 5 (DirectX 10)

A new addition to our benchmark suite is Resident Evil 5. Capcom's newly released game ensures you a survival horror sequel that will let you bust up some zombies on your hard drive. Resident Evil 5 PC will support DirectX 9 and 10 along with ultra-high resolutions.

The game looks fantastic and has a built in benchmark. We test at 4x AA with all settings maxed activated, including BLUR. If you'd like to reproduce the benchmark scores yourself, then please select the fixed benchmark as we opted for a fixed time demo.

That is one MASSIVE CPU bottleneck for the 3-way setup, it's even slower than 2-way due to two things. The first fact is that 3 cards eats more CPU cycles than 2-way SLI setups and that thus can have an adverse effect on CPU limited games. The second is that in 3-way SLI mode the PCI-Express configuration kicks back to x8 mode instead of the x16 mode in 2-way SLI. With both factors weighed in, it can slow down the 3-weay SLI setup.

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