CrossFire-X, eXplored

Vantage

Vantage is Futuremark’s latest test. It is really useful for tracking changes in a single system – especially driver changes.  There are two mini-game tests, Jane Nash and Calico and also two CPU tests, but we are still focusing on the graphics performance.

Here is a scene from Vantage’s second mini-game.

Let’s go right to the graphs and first check the Basic Tests with the default benchmark scores:

We see more scores which progressively increase uniformly as the clocks speeds increase.  Now let’s look at the mini-game frame rates:

In this synthetic test, the HD4870 is beaten solidly by the HIS HD4890 and in turn by the overclocked Diamond HD4890-XOC. The TriFire HD4870-X2+4890-XOC is the king here, followed by regular TriFire and then by overclocked HD4890 CrossFire and right on down the line in a very linear fashion. Let’s move on to real games and real world situations and see what practical frame rate changes there are by under or overclocking the HD4890/HD4870 when paired in CrossFire-X.  Enough of the synthetics as we move on to PC games!