MSI Big Bang Trinergy Motherboard CrossFire/SLI Benchmarks
Introduction
Cool package
Back in October MSI unveiled the first motherboard of its high-anticipated Big Bang series – Trinergy, but the board turns out to be using NVIDIA’s nForce 200 SLI chip instead of the Lucid Hydra 200 as most of us expected.
Although we have to wait for a while before actually experiencing the Lucid chip on the upcoming Fuzion board, NF200 chip still brings us some benefits for now – it provides P55 motherboard with additional PCIe lanes and thus enables P55 motherboards to run in x16+x16 or x16+x8+x8 modes instead of x8+x8, x16+x4 or x8+x8+x4 modes.
What would happen if we build 2-way CrossFire or SLI setup by using Trinergy? How huge performance improvements it would bring over ordinary P55 platform? Read on to find the answer.
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Introduction
December 14th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Good approach, however, we don’t know if the processor (i5/i7, LGA 1156) is the system’s bottleneck. The way this benchmarking shows, it seems the main processor is holding back all graphics cards’ power, at least for the GTX 295 cards. It simply can’t be x8/x8 having same performance of x16/x16 CF/SLI.
Just tell us additional info regarding this bench test.
Cheers!
December 15th, 2009 at 8:07 am
@bob smith, u fail my brother!, u might see 5% maximum performances drop from going, 8x to 16x PCI-E RV2.0, im talking about GTX295/HD4870x2 and even the new HD5970! u wont see a lot of performances drop from 8x to 16x, 5% for the max!.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Still not convinced.
Just wait and you’ll see the difference X58 makes over P55 when nVidia launches its new Dx11 Graphics Cards. Certainly, P55/i5 will be – with its x8 PCI lane – the system’s bottleneck.
With current Dx10 high-end graphics cards it’s ok to have the same performance. However, with new generation high-eng GPUs, the story will totally different.
Put two ATi Radeon HD 5970 in CF or wait and test SLI mode with two nVidia GeForce GTX 360 and i5 will hold’em back with its x8 PCIe slot.
About the ATi Radeon HD 5970: show me data to se if i5 really can handle its full capacity in a PCI 2.0 x8 lane.
Regards!