Somethings fishy with Toms hardware's Benchmark

[brown_dog]

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http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/...ess/page6.html

Hmm... It seems impossible that in some benchmarks the single 2900xt outperforms a 3870CF PCIe 2.0.
and a single HD3850 outperforms an CF HD3870 on PCIe 16x-16x.

Even And in some benchmarks a HD3870's score is non existent.

Something is obviously very fishy about this review. Whether they are creating a benchmark or an Nvidia commercial.
Then they cover it up with switching from pcie 2.0 from v1.0a topic.
They did not even show what driver versions they are using.

I have checked lots of forums who are using CF on 16x-16x and has huge amount of performance gains.

Please I'm not comparing PCE 2 vs 1 i'm looking at the benchmarks.

[EarlZ]

Tried emailing them instead ?

[Der FüHRER]

i say we ask bro fish bout this..he should know if something's 'fishy'

[firebasefury]

^^ agree hehehe

[vern]

Aliens exist.

[fish]

i say we ask bro fish bout this..he should know if something's 'fishy'

hehehe... di nalang ko mo-comment bro... but i've read a lot of reviews and article from tom's, and i would say, nga they are not against AMD... they are for AMD going stronger...

[butitoy]

hehehe... di nalang ko mo-comment bro... but i've read a lot of reviews and article from tom's, and i would say, nga they are not against AMD... they are for AMD going stronger...

as useless..even before..
they even have non disclosure agreements with DAAMIT..[ oppps..sori modz..] AMD/ATI for new hardware release news and benchies..

fanboiz unite!

har har har!!!

[parts]

as useless..even before..
they even have non disclosure agreements with DAAMIT..[ oppps..sori modz..] AMD/ATI for new hardware release news and benchies..

fanboiz unite!

har har har!!!

wahahahha...char....

[rl]

have your tried to comment on it?

[brown_dog]

They could be using an old ATI drivers. Even latest ati drivers have some issues with games, Some games would run slower in CF mode compared to a single card.
Some games have dramatic increase in performance in CF almost 100%.

hopefully ATI will continue to fix those game performance issues with CF.

In these benchmark more likely toms hardware used old drivers.