Single X1800XT beats two 7800TGX in SLI mode

[Syn]

Source: www.megagames.com

It seems that last week's ATI event in Ibiza produced an interesting example of one of the X1K range's biggest weapons; overclockability. An overclocker that goes by the name of Maki, apparently hailing from Finland, managed to use his magic on an X1800XT so that a single card outperformed a dual-wielding (not overclocked) SLI Geforce 7800GTX setup.

The creative Fin, managed to bring a regular 625MHz core and 1500MHz memory X1800XT card to the dizzying heights of an 877.5MHz core and memory clocking-in at 1980MHz. Before you rush of to throw USD600 ATIs way make sure you understand that to reach such levels of performance, you would need a steady supply of dry ice to keep your baby from setting your desk alight. The above mentioned setup, using an AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (clocked at 3617.5 MHz), achieved the impressive score of 12278 in 3Dmark05, a score that beats the SLI dual Geforce 7800GTX setup using the same processor.

This victory is not immediately significant to prospective ATI owners but is a positive comment on the potential of the R520 chip which appears to be just as, if not more, flexible as its predecessor. The latest news from the ATI camp even suggests that the X1800XT can reach 10k+ in 3DMark05 with conventional air powered cooling.
The biggest proble of the X1800XT however, is that it is still not available while the Geforce 7800GTX, for example, is.

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[NikolaX]

But they didnt OC 7800gtx's as they did with X1800XT, and they didnt benchmark real games.

[dangel]

Fun overclock but not really practical

What's a gtx do on ice?

[Syn]

But they didnt OC 7800gtx's as they did with X1800XT, and they didnt benchmark real games.

The whole point of the whole thing was to see if they could overclock X1800XT to beat two GTX's and they managed it so i dont get your point. Every person that has nvidia cards will come and say something like that. In last half of the year i keept my mouth shut while nvidia was celebrating how it can beat X800XT PE with its SLI set up. All nvidia falks where all happy and cheerfull about it yet that was 2vs1 situation now when a single ATi card beats two GTX's you have to moan about it. And no they didnt run any game benchmarks because it was about getting most points on 3DMark05 as they dont expect evreyone now to go and do thier same things on thier cards instead of buying a Crossfire system. It was just a bit of fun and to restore ATi's name at Futuremarks top scores board.

Fun overclock but not really practical

What's a gtx do on ice?

Check futuremarks board i think they managed 11k

[Tobeman]

Bah, Futuremark take back handers for driver optimisations anyway