Performance in Gaming Benchmarks: Strategies

Age of Empires 3

The game worked correctly when we turned on extreme full-screen antialiasing modes, but the results varies so greatly between one test pass and another that we do not publish the 8x and 14x Super AA results as non-representative.

However, the CrossFire Xpress 3200 ensures a certain advantage over the Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire Edition using the ordinary 4x FSAA. The performance of the ATI solution is lower than that of the SLI configuration with two GeForce 7800 GTX.

Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War

The strong points of the new chipset are better seen in Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War. It is clear ATI?s approach to building a chipset with two complete PCI Express x16 slots is more productive than Nvidia?s implementation of the same idea.

The nForce4 SLI X16 cannot show its full potential because the graphical slots are connected to different chips in it, and data is transferred between the graphics card in a less efficient way.