Not too long ago [H]ard|OCP examined the price to performance ratio between a triple SLI GTX580 system and a Tri-Fire HD6990 and HD6970 and discovered that as far as value goes, NVIDIA could not touch AMD. A reader of theirs inquired if it was the aging Core i7-920 that was holding the cards back even with the overclock of 3.6GHz. A SandyBridge system with a Core i7-2600K and an ASUS board with the NF200 bridge chip was used to revisit the performance of the two vendors GPUs. The result; we can hardly wait for the Z68 boards to come out!
"We have re-tested performance between GTX 580 3-Way SLI and Radeon HD 6990+6970 Tri-Fire with a brand new Sandy Bridge 4.8GHz system. Our readers wanted to know if the CPU speed would improve performance and open up the potential of this triple-GPU performance beasts. To put it succinctly, they were right. The results completely turn the tables upside down and then some."
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Triple Monitor Gaming: GeForce GTX 590 vs. Radeon HD 6990 @ TechSpot
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 and HD 5830 1GB Xtreme @ Tweaktown
- XFX HD Radeon 6790 Review @ OCC
- PowerColor HD 6950 Vortex II 2 GB @ techPowerUp
- HIS Radeon 6870 IceQX @ XSReviews
- HIS Radeon HD 6790 1GB IceQ X Turbo @ Tweaktown
- AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB and HD 6570 512MB GDDR5 @ Hi Tech Legion
- AMD Radeon 6990 4GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix
- MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II/OC, MSI R6870 Hawk, MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II @ iXBT Labs
- May 2011: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa vs. Catalyst @ Phoronix
- How to overclock a graphics card @ eTeknix
- i3DSpeed, April 2011 @ iXBT Labs
- MSI GTX560-Ti OC SLI @ OC3D
- Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP! Edition 1GB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers
- GIGABYTE GTX 580 Super Overclock @ OCAU