Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark 03

Quite expectedly SLI technology is perfectly compatible with the benchmarks from Futuremark, and the results are another testimony to its efficiency: the SLI platform overcame the next landmark, a total score of 20,000 points. The GeForce 6600 GT pair also did excellently, outperforming the single GeForce 6800 Ultra.

The first test is simple, so we can’t expect a big effect from enabled SLI, but it is present, especially in high resolutions. The pair of two GeForce 6600 GT cards profits the most from SLI, achieving a performance gain of 30-35 percent. The GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI configuration is 15-20 percent faster than the single card. The multi-GPU mode helps NVIDIA’s GPUs to outperform their rivals from ATI Technologies.

The advantages of NVIDIA SLI technology are more conspicuous in the “eye candy?mode ?the performance gain is about 75 percent for the GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI in 1600x1200 resolution, and about 100 percent for the GeForce 6600 GT SLI!