SLI vs CrossFire Performance

Dark Messiah – Direct3D

Dark Messiah Performance 1280x1024
Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 7900 GTX SLI	99	158
GeForce 7950 GT SLI	85	139
GeForce 7900 GT SLI	64	113
Radeon X1900 XTX CrossFire	101	152
Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire	114	158
Radeon X1800 XT CrossFire	82	120

Notes

We should note that the Dark Messiah demo supported SLI (including the GeForce 7950 GX2) out-of-the-box, with no adjustments necessary to the driver’s control panel. This bodes well for seamless SLI support when the game is finally released. We had to force CrossFire mode by adjusting the Catalyst AI slider from “standard” to “advanced”, which forces AFR mode on Dark Messiah.