Core i7 SLI Performance
Filed in HARDWARE INFORMATION on Sep.11, 2009
The tests we performed here were to find out what difference, or graphics speed increase, is attained with multiple graphics cards in a SLI system. We used a Triple SLI Core i7 system with a single GTX 285 and then went to dual SLI and finally Triple SLI. The CPU we used was a Core i7 920 with 6 Gigs of 1333Mhz RAM and Vista Premium 64 Bit. The benchmark program we used is 3DMarkVantage from futuremark.com
As the above chart clearly indicates there is a substanstial increase in speed from the single card to the Dual SLI, in fact the increase in graphics speed was approx 68% extra.
Adding a third card was a little dissappointing. The increase from the Dual SLI system to a Triple SLI only resulted in an extra 18% in speed.
