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The Definitive Multi-GPU Press Review World Tour

Nine press review websites have joined forces to put together the most comprehensive review series ever published on multi-GPU systems/gaming. The end result yields one final verdict – see below.

"The amount of work, money and time that has gone into this article is nothing short of amazing. Each site that benchmarked game titles averaged between 100 to 200 hours testing today's most popular games on six different platforms" – Legit Reviews

"NVIDIA's SLI is clearly more stable and mature than ATI's Crossfire, there is no debating that fact." –Rage 3D

"NVIDIA obviously dominates everything. NVIDIA is winning pretty much the majority of benchmarks that are produced by these sites" –Guru 3D

"Benchmark wise, overall, without a doubt NVIDIA comes out stronger than ATI" –Guru 3D

FINAL VERDICT: "NVIDIA wins flatout and therefore deserves an award which is hereby granted" –Guru3D

Which Review Sites are Saying These Things?

Article

Reviewer

Introduction PenstarSys
GPUs Bit-tech
Motherboards Bjorn3D
Common Benchmarks HARDiNFO
Xfire most Played Neoseeker
Uncommon Benchmarks NVNews
Uncommon Benchmarks Rage3D
Uncommon Benchmarks Legit Reviews
The Verdict Guru3D

What Else Did They Have to Say About NVIDIA SLI Technology?

Quote

 

Reviewer

"The leader in most the tests we were responsible for was NVIDIA…. there tends to be a relatively predictable difference between the ATI and NVIDIA numbers."

 

Neoseeker

"If you are a gamer with a limited budget and plan to invest in a multi-GPU system, go with the SLI platform...The NVIDIA SLI platform dominated the mid-range system."

"All of the games received an increase in performance from SLI and performed without incident."

 

NV News

"I can't help but be impressed at just how easy to set up and well mannered the SLI systems are. You just pop in the cards, install the driver, click the balloon to enable SLI and you're off and running."

"Those of you that have been following the tour have no doubt seen how well SLI has performed. NVIDIA has been hard at work squashing bugs to deliver the best Multi-GPU experience and it shows in every one of the articles in this series."

"The amount of work, money and time that has gone into this article is nothing short of amazing. Each site that benchmarked game titles averaged between 100 to 200 hours testing today's most popular games on six different platforms"

 

Legit Reviews

"NVIDIA's SLI is clearly more stable and mature than ATI's Crossfire, there is no debating that fact."

"With Crossfire not only did most games not scale, but I actually had to disable Crossfire just to get them to launch."

"Not only is stability on NVIDIA's side, so is ease of use and practicality."

 

Rage3D

"Benchmark wise, overall, without a doubt NVIDIA comes out stronger than ATI"

"NVIDIA simply has a bitching fast and well developed multi-gpu solution at hand"

"If we tally up the results from them we see NVIDIA obviously dominate everything, even in certain games if ATI is winning NVIDIA remains really close, especially in low and mid-range performance systems ATI is under attack"

"What I'm trying to say is that ATI is still playing catch-up and it'll take a while before they are at the same level as NVIDIA is. Many games lack crossfire support"

"Performance is lacking for them and as Mark at Rage3D stated, a lot of games simply are not supported by Crossfire"

"Without a doubt NVIDIA comes out stronger than ATI"

"NVIDIA obviously dominate everything. NVIDIA are winning pretty much the majority of benchmarks that are produced by these sites"

 

Guru 3D

"NVIDIA seems to be the winner in the majority of tests with quality settings of 4xAA and 8xAF."

"Getting back to the performance overall, we see places where Crossfire doesn't scale at all, which is obviously something that needs to be corrected...The system either reboots, halts or jumps out of the benchmarks"

 

HardInfo

"There's no question NVIDIA is the feature kings."

"With 5 AMD nForce chipsets under their belt now as well as a number of Intel chipsets, NVIDIA has experience in building stable products. This also goes for their drivers. If you buy a nForce motherboard you'll know you most probably won't have to worry about getting an buggy unfinished product."

"On the AM2 front ATI is lagging far behind NVIDIA."

 

Bjorn 3D

"NVIDIA currently certifies motherboards, power supplies and memory modules. These are all tested by NVIDIA and then given a seal of approval, stating that the products will work together as part of an SLI platform without issue. ATI does the same, but we feel that it isn't quite as far down the certification road as NVIDIA at the moment."

"NVIDIA's SLI Platform is easy to install"

 

Bit-Tech

"NVIDIA designed SLI into their products from the ground up, so there is a bit more of a polish to the product than most of the competitors have."

"NVIDIA has spent a lot of time working on software and driver compatibility, so it has over 300+ games that SLI natively supports with profiles."

 

Penstarsys

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