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Palit GTX 280 SLI
3D Mark 06
3DMark®06 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.
3DMark06 may not be the newest of the 3DMark family, but a lot of people still use it to compare their current graphics card to those being just released, which is why we still use it as part of our Video Card test suite. The Palit GTX280 achieved 14,068 points on the overall 3DMark06 test. As this tested both the GPU and CPU, you can see that the score was quite impressive. Lets move on to the newest version of 3DMark, 3DMark Vantage.
3D Mark Vantage
3DMark®Vantage is composed of four full-bore benchmarking tests (2 different CPU tests and 2 different GPU tests) and 6 feature tests. Four presets, a groundbreaking new feature, vastly augment the variety of PCs that can be tested with the product. Presets range from value through performance to high end cinematic rendering resolutions and features. By creating a new set of high end presets, 3DMark®Vantage is future proofed for the new multi-core CPU and Graphics Processing Unit products as well as supporting the Physics Processing Unit to expand the range of technology, testing and prevent the benchmark from being bottlenecked for its users.
As you can see in the above graph, using the single Palit GTX280 scored about the same as the overall score because they the GPU and CPU scored roughly the same. But you will notice that when we throw the other Palit GTX280 into the scene and run them in SLI, you will notice that the score improved drastically, but the overall score was brought down as the CPU was not performing on par with the two GTX280s.