Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 3

SLI technology provokes a horrible performance hit in this test, although there are no problems about the quality of the picture.

AquaMark3

The multi-GPU technology from NVIDIA works well in this test, although the performance gain is far from the theoretical maximum. The GeForce 6800 Ultra duo even outperforms the top-end graphics cards from ATI.

ATI’s graphics cards have traditionally showed their best in the “eye candy?mode. They do so in Aquamark3, too, but now NVIDIA’s GPUs in the SLI mode can deliver the same performance. The value of the performance gain is about 50 percent for the GeForce 6600 GT SLI and about 40-45 percent for the GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI.