The Division: PC graphics performance benchmark review

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Multi-GPU - GTX 980 SLI and R9 Fury Crossfire

Multi-GPU gaming - GeForce GTX 980 SLI and Radeon R9 Fury Crossfire

So we dealt with most possible scenarios game performance wsie, aside from Multi GPU gaming (SLI and Crossfire). The GeForce  364.47 WHQL driver already was SLI compatible. AMD released the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.2.1 Hotfix driver (download) which enables Crossfire gaming. This results into a very interesting outcome. Let's have a peek.


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Above you can see the Radeon R9 Fury measured as single card and in Crossfire. At QHD things get more GPU bound. However we see some excellent Crossfire scaling in Ultra HD. Unfortunately there's a massive bug with Crossfire making it stutter and flicker to almost an unplayable status, we'll show you that on the next FCAT pages. We recommend to run just one GPU until AMD fixes this.


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SLI then, we take the GeForce GTX 980, again single card and SLI (2-way performance), at 1440p we see pretty decent scaling. Ultra HD all of the sudden becomes playable as well. On the next page we'll zoom in at Multi-GPU FCAT as well, as Nvidia's SLI does work 10x better then Crossfire at the momnent, but they also face some stuttering and odd behaviour in a Multi-GPU setup.

But let's chart things up first.

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At 2560x1440 the 980 SLI combo rocks hard where the Fury seems to be struggling. But now let's move towards Ultra HD:

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We've seen this behaviour before, that's a pretty staggering difference considering both cards have 4GB of graphics memory. We see it often, AMD Fiji based graphics cards get stronger in Ultra HD. Okay, now we move to FCAT .. the bad part for Multi-GPU gamers.

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