As demonstrated in our first review, a single GeForce 8800 GT is more than capable of running your favorite 3D games at the resolution of 1680x1050 with 4x and sometimes 8x multisampling antialiasing. Therefore, for this review, benchmark results start at the resolution of 1920x1200, which is native to most 24" widescreen LCD monitors.
The results have been split across two charts. The performance of the Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL (blue bar) is presented along with mixed-vendor SLI results (green bar), which were produced by pairing the Inno3D with MSI's GeForce 8800 GT graphics card.
Overall, the Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL provided exceptional performance at the resolution of 1920x1200. Other than Crysis at high quality settings, the average frame rate exceeded 30 frames per second (fps) in all other tests.
In the first chart, the average frame rate ranges from 53 fps to 164 fps in the games and settings listed, which includes top tier titles like BioShock, Call of Duty 4 and STALKER. This type of performance is amazing when you consider that the CPU driving the test system is a Core 2 Duo E6850 (3.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB), which sells for $275.
Also noteworthy is that SLI performance scales quite well and provided an average increase of 52%. Average frame rates were near or over 100 fps in all benchmark results with SLI.
Game Performance at 1920x1200
Although the following titles and settings consume more system resources, the average frame rate ranged from 26 fps to 59 fps with the single Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT i-ChiLL. SLI was not quite as effective here as the performance on average increased by 28%.
Game Performance at 1920x1200
Let's find out how performance fares at 2560x1600. Will the GeForce 8800 GT in SLI be as effective?
