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I was kinda hoping someone with xfired 6850's might be bored enough to run some benchmarks.
I'm shopping for my next GPU solution and am pretty torn. If I wasn't held back by chipset/motherboard I'd probably be going with gtx460's in SLI but as far as I can tell my motherboard doesn't support sli unless I use a hack.
That has brought 6850's into the equation. The only review/benchmarks I could find concerning xfired 6850's that included a record of MINIMUM frames per second was one obscure Aliens vs. Predator benchmark on Tomshardware.
This benchmark showed that 6850's in crossfire although having a higher max framerate, suffered horribly when it comes to minimums. The minimum framerate on xfired 6850's dropped 2 times as much as the single card solution. This was not a problem with the sli'd 460gtx's.
I'm all about some high frame rates but if I'm having to sacrifice for a lower minimum frame rate I'm thinking I'll either pass on xfired 6850's and get gtx 460's (i'm just not crazy about having to hack my OS) or go with a single 6870. I really want to run a dual gpu setup and the 6850's would be perfect for my situation but I'm not gonna dump that much money into something that's not practical.
I'm hoping that the one benchmark ran by toms may not be the norm. Anyone care to contribute???
Thanks in advance.
I'm shopping for my next GPU solution and am pretty torn. If I wasn't held back by chipset/motherboard I'd probably be going with gtx460's in SLI but as far as I can tell my motherboard doesn't support sli unless I use a hack.
That has brought 6850's into the equation. The only review/benchmarks I could find concerning xfired 6850's that included a record of MINIMUM frames per second was one obscure Aliens vs. Predator benchmark on Tomshardware.
This benchmark showed that 6850's in crossfire although having a higher max framerate, suffered horribly when it comes to minimums. The minimum framerate on xfired 6850's dropped 2 times as much as the single card solution. This was not a problem with the sli'd 460gtx's.
I'm all about some high frame rates but if I'm having to sacrifice for a lower minimum frame rate I'm thinking I'll either pass on xfired 6850's and get gtx 460's (i'm just not crazy about having to hack my OS) or go with a single 6870. I really want to run a dual gpu setup and the 6850's would be perfect for my situation but I'm not gonna dump that much money into something that's not practical.
I'm hoping that the one benchmark ran by toms may not be the norm. Anyone care to contribute???
Thanks in advance.
