Futuremark 3DMark Vantage 1.0.1	Source: FutureMark

3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage 1.0.1 (no Physx) Performance Overall: (P) Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 9116 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 8852 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 8358 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 5579 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 5149 ASUS EAH4550 512M 1184 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 6600 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 9986 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 5335 GPU Score: Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 12983 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 12252 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 9471 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 5905 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 5269 ASUS EAH4550 512M 932 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 6694 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 12508 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 4266 CPU score: Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 4814 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 4830 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 6180 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 4786 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 4821 ASUS EAH4550 512M 6197 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 6334 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 6223

3DMark Vantage scales well with multiple GPUs, and the twin Asus ENGTS250 DK videocards are able to take a combined first place finish. Again, the solo videocard is able to beat AMD's Radeon HD 4850 in its overall performance score.

Crysis is a science fiction first-person shooter developed by Crytek. Crysis uses Microsoft's new API, DirectX 10 for graphics rendering, and includes the new engine—the CryEngine 2—that is the successor to Far Cry's CryEngine. CryEngine 2 is among the first engines to use the DirectX 10 framework of Windows Vista, but can also run using DirectX 9, both on Vista and Windows XP.

Crysis 1.2 (no AA) - DirectX10 1280x1024 HQ Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 40.46 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 39.7 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 39.105 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 39.4 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 58.54 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 40.835 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 36.55 ASUS EAH4550 512M 9.77 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 49.16 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 64.63 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 31.23 1600x1200 HQ Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 38.2 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 34.2 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 37.17 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 33.8 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 46.35 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 30.79 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 27.46 ASUS EAH4550 512M 7.05 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 37.67 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 58.88 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 22.84 1920x1200 HQ Points Ranking Palit HD4870 X2 2GB 35 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A 29.9 Asus EAH3870 X2 1GB TOP/G/3DHTI/1G/A (Crossfire) 34.07 MSI R3870X2-T2D1G-OC 29.7 Asus EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5/A 41.07 Asus EAH4850 HTDI/512M 26.2 MSI R4830 T2D512-OC (Radeon 4830) 23.43 ASUS EAH4550 512M 6.38 ASUS ENGTS250 DK 33.56 ASUS ENGTS250 DK in SLI 50.4 Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI 19.4

nVidia and Crysis have always gotten along well together, and once the resolution and graphics sliders are cranked up the overall scores become quite competitive between a single Geforce GTS 250 videocard and AMD's faster video cards, like the Radeon HD4870 X2. Two Geforce GTS 250s are the only videocards that approach the magic 60FPS performance mark at 1920x1200 resolution.