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GeCube Gemini 2 (Dual Radeon X1650 XT)

By Vincent Chang - 18 May 2007

Results - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory & F.E.A.R (DirectX 9 Benchmarks)

Results - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory & F.E.A.R (DirectX 9 Benchmarks)

One of the disadvantages of getting dual graphics card has to be the uncertainty involved. Performance gains from having dual processors vary from application to application and it certainty did not seem to be working well in Splinter Cell. The Gemini 2 was only about 16% (and 5 to 6 frames) faster than the reference Radeon X1650 XT, putting it a distant third behind in our comparison. Also, CrossFire did seem to have issues with anti-aliasing and HDR as we noticed that our benchmark scores were similar regardless of whether anti-aliasing was enabled. Hence, these scores were not included. In F.E.A.R, the increase in performance expected from the Gemini felt rather short, as having this CrossFire card only gave it a modest boost over the single GPU version. More memory bandwidth would have helped but that's a shortcoming of all midrange graphics cards.

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