ATI HD4870 & HD4850 Crossfire Performance Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     August 7, 2008

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars


Enemy Territory: Quake wars is the latest iteration of the wildly popular Quake franchise from ID Software. While it was met with luke-warm reviews by both the media and the gaming community, it remains an extremely popular online game.

In this test we set up a 15 minute timedemo on the Refinery level while the framerates were recorded in-game.





While lower resolution isn’t Crossfire’s stomping ground, 1600 x 1200 and above seems to be a real sweet spot in ET: QW where even the HD4850 cards are able to take a commanding lead over the more expensive GTX 280. It is great to see very good scaling once again with Crossfire.
 
 
 

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