7900 GT SLI benchmarks

[the Chase]

It's too bad the first "real"? benchies of the 7900 series have to be all buggered up to the point that you might as well just disregard them.

 

[5150Joker]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Originally posted by: 5150Joker


Yeah I think SLI was functioning, just the CPU was holding it back badly. I don't expect the G71 to be anything special anyhow, I don't see why anyone else here does. The 7900 GT will essentially be a 7800 GTX on 90nm and the 7900 GTX will be a 512 GTX on 90 nm. With ATi's new price drops, I don't think nVidia has anything on ATi at this point aside from duo 7900 GTX and quad SLI but that only matters to a very tiny fraction of the market anyway.

Ya, I'm not expecting amazing feats of video card power from the new 7900 series, if rumor is true that is. Hopefully they'll oc like crazy though.

You know I've been thinking about this the past few days and I realize that the chances of the 7900 GT having good ram are pretty low given it's price point. Furthermore, with the lack of software voltage controls for G70/G71, they'll probably top out sooner than X1900 cards on water or air.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker

You know I've been thinking about this the past few days and I realize that the chances of the 7900 GT having good ram are pretty low given it's price point. Furthermore, with the lack of software voltage controls for G70/G71, they'll probably top out sooner than X1900 cards on water or air.

That's one of the main reasons I switched to ATI recently. All three of my recent Nvidia cards didn't overclock for nothing. My two 7800GTs topped out at ~465 on the core and my 7800GTX topped out at ~520MHz with watercooling. My brother's X1800XL and my X1900XT have done significantly better since they have software voltmods available.

 

[Munky]

Now that I think about it, the pre-release leaked benches are almost always sub-par. Remember Sander Sassen's x1800xt benches? They also showed low scores, and turned out to be false.

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: RobertR1
Why would Sli not be working??? A single 7900GT won't be able to score 8580 with a 1.8 CPU in 05 if you go by the rumored specs. Sli is probably working but highly limited by the CPU, in this case, thus marginal gains.

thats exactly what i said 2nd/3rd post in. as usual the ATI crew ignore it, when it is the very likey cause of the low score. ive witnessed myself nearly 2000 mark increase just from a 600Mhz oc on the cpu.

its either the cpu holding it back

or the drivers they used are quite set up for 7900 series in SLI. which makes sense since the cards arent acutally out yet

First off it is a link from He used a link they are not his and then he thinks it is a driver issue? I am sorry but these benchies seem BS or from someone very stupid.

 

[ExtremePVDman]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
The CPU is reportedly at 1800 mhz with the cards at default clock: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1312128&postcount=29


3dmark05: 8580
3dmark06: 4635
3dmark03: 24342

pretty weak, even my 7800 GT sli gets 6000 in 06

 

[ExtremePVDman]

Originally posted by: peleejosh
The 3dmark05 and 3dmark06 score is only using 1 7900gt

what are u talking about those screenshot clearly showed SLI enabled

 

[the Chase]

my head hurts....

 

[Shamrock]

Quick breakdown

AMD A64 3000+
512MB system RAM
7900GT (possible SLI or partially working, specualtions abound!) even though it's enabled, drivers' issues may not recognize it, hence 1 card

4635 in 3dm06
8580 in 3dm05

I would consider this a good gain to me. My guestimation is, the RAM and CPU are holding it back tremendously. Throw on a 4400+ x2 and put 2GB RAM in it.