Radeon HD 5770 CrossFireX Performance Scaling

This article is all about answering one question: how well does the Radeon HD 5770 scale in CrossFireX. Benchmark Reviews has already investigated and published reviews for two video cards based on the HD5770 “Juniper” chip; an engineering sample from ATI and a production card from XFX. They both acquitted themselves quite well, and we included some CrossFireX test results in the XFX review, using two cards strapped together on an Intel P45 platform. This time we take a look at how 1, 2, and 3 cards work together on our new Windows 7 test suite, with an AMD 790FX motherboard. Looking at our earlier reviews of the Radeon HD5770, we already know that two of them in CrossFireX soundly beat a single NVIDIA GTX285. Read more…

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