GeForce GTX 480 3-way SLI review - ATI versus NVIDIA: Call of Duty MW2

Okay you've just experienced a dry hump session of pure NVIDIA scaling within the several GeForce GTX 480 configurations. But obviously you'd also like to learn a thing or two about performance scaling in-between ATI and NVIDIA.

Now due to the huge amount of time needed to accomplish this, for this article, I narrowed down the multi-GPU setup towards two cards, thus 2-way SLI and 2-way Crossfire. Both brands are again tested on the very same machine, just with a different drive image (we have a dedicated ATI OS and an NVIDIA OS) other than that everything is the same including patches and what not.

We'll focus on three resolutions:

• 1600x1200
• 1920x1200
• 2560x1600

Each game has the exact same settings in image quality as normal. Let's start off.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Image Quality setting:

• 4x Anti-Aliasing
• 16x Anisotropic Filtering
• All settings maxed out

As you can see, NVIDIA scales phenomenally here; absolutely dominating ATI.