The Testbed

CPU: Athlon 64 3800+

Cooler: Stock

Motherboard: DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLi / Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939

Ram: 2x 512mb Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC4000

Hdd: 2x80gb Seagate Barracudda 7 SATA

Graphics Card: ATI X800 Pro Ultra 2X

OS: Windows XP Professional SP1

Dash, pls put them in the standard table... no time to do.. thks!!

Testing Methodology

All unecessary applications were closed so that it wont deviate the score of the benchmark. Some game tests were run twice to allow the game to cache. For these kinds of games, the score was recorded on the second execution of the test. I was unable to run GunMetal, Halo, and 3dmark03/05 benchmarks as the drivers that was supplied were early betas and had a few bugs in it.

Test Results

Aquamark GFX

For Aquamark3, all tests were done at their stock settings.

Aquamark3 GFX Score

Here we can see that the Dual GPU/VPU solutions take the lead over the single GPU/VPU solutions (like duhh.. :p .) Amazingly, the X800 Pro Ultra 2X takes the lead

Aquamark FPS

Aquamark FPS

Again, the dual VPU/GPU solutions take the lead and the X800 Pro Ultra 2X.