Snapshot: A quick-fire look at dual 5870's.
Crossfire has been around for ages, but it's only recently been redesigned to work inside the case as opposed to the annoying external dongle that plagued the 1xxx series.
And of course the 5xxx series cards have well and truly launched, which brings us to actual performance numbers, somewhat hindered by the looming deadline tomorrow.
Thankfully I nabbed just enough time to throw together a rig and whacked together the following tech, to give a mini-update on what you can expect from high-end gaming rigs:
Amazingly with all this tech running, Crysis was playable at 1920x1200 on Ultra high at 30-50fps! The two cards (for a combined total of 3200 shader units) worked together to eke out this excellent result in both 3DMark programs:
Performance is definitely very high so make sure you check out the three-page indepth review of the 5870 in Issue 106 - out on the 14th of October!
Issue: 107 | December, 2009