i don't pointed on ATI users, which is the same level of chipset...but some nvidia's gtx 2xx series set are more expensive from a hd585x crossfire set...and are weaker from me... and i always beat a stock (or a bit slightly clocked) hd 5970...which 5970's in my country cost's about 130$ more from my both 5850's...so i wanted to say it's a win combination for it's price range in term cost/performance...that's all...
My cpu is holding the score back i'm affraid, in 5 days my Phenom II X6 1090T arrives hope it should be better then.
indeo already adressed it to you but i have to add it. Look at his score and look at his hardware. He has a 5970 but the gt240 is listed . LOL at yourself indeed.
I don't think your CPU is holding you back at all. You scored almost exactly the same as me when i disable one card and just run crossfire This is my dual card score:-
- CPU: Core Q9550 - Clock normal da CPU: 2833 - OC usado na CPU: 3825 - VGA: XF HD5850 - Clocks stock: 725/1000 - OC usado na VGA: 850/1200 / ATI Overdrive habilitado - Versão do Driver de Video: 10.3 WHQL - Modo Quality, AA e AF por aplicativo e Vsync Off - Windows Seven x64
I know the HD5870 isn't as good at handling tessellation as the new GTX 480 but, nevertheless, two scale extremely well in CrossFireX mode. At 1920x1200 with 4xAA, 16xAF and Tessellation set to Extreme, everything else on default (High I think), I got a minimum of 6.2 fps and a maximum of 51.7 fps with a single HD 5870. With CrossFireX I got a minimum of 12.1 fps and a maximum of 91.7 fps. The score was 833 from memory. Apparently most games will only ever use moderate tessellation, nevermind normal, so I'm quite happy with those results. 8xAA totally kills the framerate though, no doubt because a 1 GB framebuffer is not enough.
Yeah i noticed the Radeons seem to get a very low minimum framerate I'll rebench this weekend, got a new i7 920d0 and a 5970+5850 instead of triple 5850s - frees up the bottom PCI-E slot as it was a bit cramped
When you set Extreme tessellation, the start of the benchmark runs with a low framerate and there's a point about two-thirds of the way through where the camera flies through a courtyard where it causes the framerate to drop a little further lowering the minimum framerate. 12 fps sounds terrible in game terms but I doubt any game will ever use tessellation to the extent Heaven 2.0 does. The Moderate tessellation test is a better gauge of how the HD 5000 cards will cope with DX11 games and it's where they do pretty well.
1650 x 1080 full screen, 4xaa, 16xaf, tess extreme 470 sli stock clocks,cpu 3.7,mem 1600 52.4 fps average 1320 score 9.1 min fps 121 max fps
ok this is with 197.75 beta driver gtx 470 sli at stock clocks 1680 x 1050 4x aa 16x af tess extreme i cant upload the saved image. its in html format? maybe there is option to save it in some other format, will see tomorrow its 4 am here got to sleep fps 52.6 score 1325 min fps 25.8 max fps 131
OK so did a little OC'n with my cards and here my extreme maxed out run 52 not bad for ATI and no i7.
