Asus Extreme N6600GT x 2 - Revisiting SLI
FarCry v1.3
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 Far Cry |
If you've been on top of the gaming scene, you're probably aware that FarCry is one of the most visually impressive games to be released on the |
Our custom FarCry benchmark proved to be somewhat of a challenge for the Asus N6600 GT, and even a pair of N6600 GTs. At a resolution of 1024x768, without any additional pixel processing, the N6600 GT performed well with a framerate just over 87 FPS. At 1600x1200 and with AA and aniso enabled at both resolutions, however, the single 6600 GT struggled a bit. Enabling SLI with a second 6600 GT, helped matters significantly, but even a pair of 6600 GTs couldn't hang with the high-end single card configurations in any of these tests.
Also notice, that in SLI mode, both the 6600 GTs and 6800 GTs lost a few frames per second at 1024x768 when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering were disabled. In CPU-bound situations like this, the overhead associated with running a pair of video cards in SLI mode - specifically split-frame rendering SLI mode in this case - results in a slightly lower framerate.
