3DMark Fire Strike and Unigine Heaven

Now that we have taken a look at our gaming tests using our Frame Rating metrics and testing methods, we are including a set of tests from more standard benchmarks like Unigine Heaven and the new 3DMark benchmark. 

I consider these tests to be somewhat of a "best case" for all the cards in our comparison.  We aren't using our frame capture system, we aren't measuring frame latency, nothing like that; I think this should give you an idea of graphics performance if each vendor had the best result for each game.

Looking at just the graphics scores in our results here, on the Fire Strike result, the 2-Way SLI configuration scales by 93%, 3-Way by 35% and 4-Way by 10%. Under the Fire Strike Extreme test we see that move up to 96% for 2-Way SLI, 48% for 3-Way SLI and 30% for 4-Way. That latter set shows some fairly impressive scaling as you would expect for a benchmark focused on GPU horsepower.

Unigine Heaven shows equally impressive scaling at the 2560×1440 + Extreme Tessellation preset, though it does falter at 4-Way SLI at the 1080p resolution (not really surprising).

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