MSI Big Bang Trinergy Motherboard CrossFire/SLI Benchmarks
CrossFire/SLI benchmarks
The P55-GD65 board would automatically switch to x8+x8 mode when you try to build 2-way CrossFire setup.
The Trinergy board was capable of full-speed x16+x16 mode for 2-way CrossFire setup.
Regardless of the big difference of PCI-E lanes bandwidth, the two boards delivered almost equal efficiency on CrossFire setup – dual x16 bandwidth didn’t bring much performance boost, as dual x8 PCI-E bandwidth is already sufficient enough to accommodate the graphics card we guess.
And then we used two GeForce GTX295s to build Quad SLI system – let’s see what would happen.
The results are almost the same – Trinergy only sees an average performance improvement of 2.79%, which means 3FPS quicker in games at the most.
It can be said the addition of NF200 chip hardly bring performance improvement for 2-way SLI/CrossFire setups, but considering its gorgeous appearance and rich features such as bundled audio card and OC panel, the feature-rich board still looks quite attractive to lots of hard-core players.
CrossFire/SLI benchmarks
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!