GTX 295 Quad SLI Evaluation

[josh6079]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...wxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

[SunnyD]

Please don't make me go to that site. For the love of god, please!

 

[guy93]

oh man..

 

[SunnyD]

Okay, so to sum up for those of you like me that hate HardOCP...

GTX295 = Great.
4870x2 = Great.

GTX295x2 SLI = Not worth it unless you're Rollo
4870x2x2 CF = Also not worth it.

 

[aka1nas]

Sigh, I forgot why I hate that site. Highest playable resolution my a$$.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Sigh, I forgot why I hate that site. Highest playable resolution my a$$.

Rofl, its awesome, if you like seeing what kinds of AA you can get at 35 FPS at 2560x1600......

 

[josh6079]

I agree they could do well with implementing more resolutions in their evaluations, but I like their methodology for those that want more than just the min., max., and avg. frame rates.

After reading the review, I'm going to wait for better hardware to come out before I attempt Crysis. GTAIV surprised me too. Didn't know it was so demanding.

 

[angry hampster]

This isn't new news. Four GPUs have never scaled well.

 

[BrentJ]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Sigh, I forgot why I hate that site. Highest playable resolution my a$$.

We also have apples-to-apples pages for those that like the classic methodology.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: BrentJ

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Sigh, I forgot why I hate that site. Highest playable resolution my a$$.

We also have apples-to-apples pages for those that like the classic methodology.

who is "we"

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS

Originally posted by: BrentJ

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Sigh, I forgot why I hate that site. Highest playable resolution my a$$.

We also have apples-to-apples pages for those that like the classic methodology.

who is "we"

"We" is HardOCP, BrentJ = Brent Justice, HardOCP's main video editor.

Didn't know Brent read these forums though.

But ya not a fan of the Highest Playable either, it just takes time and review space away from more useful and relevant apples-to-apples comparisons. It works well for the game-specific video reviews as it can show how much individual settings impact gameplay but in a video card review it leaves far too much to subjective opinion while limiting total number of comparisons.

The actual apples-to-apples and side-by-side visual comparisons are excellent though and the frame rate graphs are also a strong point of HOCP reviews. The problem is the apples-to-apples comparisons are typically limited to a single resolution with only 2-3 parts, so its much harder to draw relevant comparisons or look at scaling across resolutions.