SLI Under The Microscope: Vista vs. XP @ HotHardware.com

Iria · Sep 25, 2007, 11:40 PM

Source: HotHardware
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In an upcoming article, HotHardware's Mike Lin will take a deep-dive look into the various performance profiles of graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD-ATI, with a view of Vista and Windows XP performance as well as image quality and rendering enhancements associated with DX10. As a precursor to this article, we thought it might be interesting to see what the numbers looked like for the extreme performance junkies in our midst, running dual-graphics SLI setups with high-end DX10 capable GeForce 8800 graphics cards. Is SLI mode on Vista still two steps behind in performance? The following pages will offer you a quick-take assessment of NVIDIA's latest ForceWare driver release, running on Windows XP and Windows Vista installations in SLI mode. NVIDIA seems to have closed the gap a bit and we set out to explore this in some of the most exciting and new game engines on the market.

Sep 25, 2007, 11:40 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	SLI Under The Microscope: Vista vs. XP @ HotHardware.com Source: HotHardware _________ In an upcoming article, HotHardware's Mike Lin will take a deep-dive look into the various performance profiles of graphics cards from both NVIDIA and AMD-ATI, with a view of Vista and Windows XP performance as well as image quality and rendering enhancements associated with DX10. As a precursor to this article, we thought it might be interesting to see what the numbers looked like for the extreme performance junkies in our midst, running dual-graphics SLI setups with high-end DX10 capable GeForce 8800 graphics cards. Is SLI mode on Vista still two steps behind in performance? The following pages will offer you a quick-take assessment of NVIDIA's latest ForceWare driver release, running on Windows XP and Windows Vista installations in SLI mode. NVIDIA seems to have closed the gap a bit and we set out to explore this in some of the most exciting and new game engines on the market.