ATI Eyefinity Review at guru3d.com

Post by **thales100** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:15

I'm afraid that this release from ATI is a death blow for Matrox's TripleHead2Go series as what ATI is offering is more advanced, has a larger userbase and is cheaper as it comes native in the graphics card. People no longer have to spend 250 to 300 USD for this feature while gaining much better monitor resolutions. The one remark here though is that that games must be, or get, supported with the somewhat unusual and massive screen resolutions.

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Post by **thales100** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:24

:?: Guru3d used two 5870 in crossfire to run the eyefinity review ?

CY:G · Post by **CY:G** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:32

:?: Guru3d used two 5870 in crossfire to run the eyefinity review ?

So yes really dog ... that's all we'll be using. A very affordable PC, remember we are GPU bound at a massive resolution of 5760x1200, not CPU or system bound. the MSI motherboard is CrossfireX compatible so we'll be using two Radeon HD 5870 cards for this test. Alright, let's start it up.

Quote from the review, it seems like it works with Crossfire then... yay

Post by **Downtown1** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:38

They did all that work creating the videos, but where are the performance benchmarks?

CY:G · Post by **CY:G** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:46

They did all that work creating the videos, but where are the performance benchmarks?

What are you going to benchmark it against? there is no other video card that offers this, and TripleHead2Go goes up to 5040, all his testing was at 5760.

Maybe we will get benchmarks once the 5850 comes out and the x2s, comparing each video card.

Though it would have been nice to see the performance at different resolutions at least.

Post by **Downtown1** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:48

Just because there's nothing else to test against doesn't mean people wouldn't want to see what kind of FPS they would be getting with a 2x5870 CF @ 3x1920x1200. I know I am certainly interested in that..

Octoboy · Post by **Octoboy** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:51

I'd be really suprised if CF actually worked!
I mean, he mentions it various times:

you'll very likely need at least two 5870 cards in CrossfireX.

So yes, you must consider and opt CrossfireX

Radeon HD 5870 1024MB (2x)

get two Radeon HD 5870 X2's

the MSI motherboard is CrossfireX compatible so we'll be using two Radeon HD 5870 cards for this test

Do you guys think it's the real deal?!

CY:G · Post by **CY:G** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:54

Just because there's nothing else to test against doesn't mean people wouldn't want to see what kind of FPS they would be getting with a 2x5870 CF @ 3x1920x1200. I know I am certainly interested in that..

He does mentions the FPS he was getting with many of the games, right after each video...

HAWX
This was the best title for me personally. We test at DX10 with 2xAA. We average out at roughly 37 frames per second.

DMC 4
fun to watch As you can see we average out at roughly roughly 45 FPS.

Crysis
Crysis is very lenient for Eyefinity alright. And yeah, AA was disabled, of course. With medium quality settings (and object detail to high) with no AA we average out at roughly 30 FPS at 5760x1200. Yet in very complex scenes the framerate dropped below 30 FPS to 24 FPS.

Post by **thales100** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:54

Do you guys think it's the real deal?!

Well, guru3d afaik, is a trustable source, and Hilbert a serious reviewer, but it sounds really weird since ATI said that crossfire support would be added later in the eyefinity technology.

CY:G · Post by **CY:G** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:55

Well, guru3d afaik, is a trustable source, and Hilbert a serious reviewer, but it sounds really weird since ATI said that crossfire support would be added later in the eyefinity technology.

Maybe you can activate it but it does nothing, placebo...

It would have been nice if he benchmarked the single 5870 against 2 of them.

Post by **thales100** » 28 Sep 2009, 19:56

Maybe you can activate it but it does nothing, placebo...

It would have been nice if he benchmarked the single 5870 against 2 of them.

Yes, thats true.

Octoboy · Post by **Octoboy** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:01

Yeah, sounded too good to be true.
He should've really compared one card to two cards, that way we would've known whether or not CF is supported. I'll say it's not.
Arrgh!

CY:G · Post by **CY:G** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:05

Yeah, sounded too good to be true.
He should've really compared one card to two cards, that way we would've known whether or not CF is supported. I'll say it's not.
Arrgh!

Well, we dont know, not until someone from the community can tell us, all we are saying is "guess work".

Based on his review, it seems that it works with Crossfire, but sounds too good to be true.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:28

Well, IIRC, the WSGF has run afoul of Guru3D in the past with them taking programs our members have made and passing them off as their own without permission from said members. However, I am inclined toward taking this review seriously, as aside from their ill-considered borrowing of fixer tools they've been a good site that is generally accurate and cover their reviews in detail.

It is possible, however unlikely, that they have a driver capable of CF+EF... but I think it's more probable that they've got two cards in there, but only one of them is working.

Also... 45fps in DMC4? Definitely sounds like only one card is working.

Post by **thales100** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:33

Well, IIRC, the WSGF has run afoul of Guru3D in the past with them taking programs our members have made and passing them off as their own without permission from said members.

lol maybe thats why i posted a link for WSGF, as one of the best sources for widescreen / surround gaming solutions, and it was quickly edited :lol: :

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Post by **BHawthorne** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:51

[quote]Well, IIRC, the WSGF has run afoul of Guru3D in the past with them taking programs our members have made and passing them off as their own without permission from said members.

lol maybe thats why i posted a link for WSGF, as one of the best sources for widescreen / surround gaming solutions, and it was quickly edited :lol: :

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LINK REMOVED - LETS TRY TO NOT LINK TO COMPETING WEBSITES PLEASE.

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I fail to see how WSGF competes with Guru3D at all. It's like comparing apples to oranges. They have vastly different focus. I mention WSGF openly and funnel people here all the time from the EVGA forums.

Octoboy · Post by **Octoboy** » 28 Sep 2009, 20:58

Based on his review, it seems that it works with Crossfire, but sounds too good to be true.

On a second thought, I hope that's not CF.
I mean, considering the image size, the results are neat.
But if that is already running two 5870?
After all, details weren't maxed, AA etc were disabled.
It'd be nice to know that there is still room for improvement, without quadfiring two 5870x2.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 28 Sep 2009, 21:00

Quite. I don't understand either, Brad. Nevertheless, they feel we compete with them.

There are a couple of other sites that have... "borrowed" res patchers from us in the past without referring back to the WSGF or the fix creator, although for use in reviewing games...

And funnelling people here from the EVGA forums is one thing; EVGA are a hardware company, not a company trying to make bucks out of hardware reviews, page hits and ad revenue. ;)

Samiad · Post by **Samiad** » 28 Sep 2009, 21:03

Just posting to say the Guru3D review states they used RC6 drivers. Whether Crossfire is enabled or not in those, I do not know.

Post by **Paradigm Shifter** » 28 Sep 2009, 21:14

So those would be Catalyst 9.10 beta, IIRC...

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