AMD Radeon HD 7770 CrossFire Review

The test the performance of the two cards together, we use the latest drivers direct from the manufacturer and run each test three times to obtain a fair average set of results.

Test System:

• Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z
• Intel Core i7 2700k
• 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz
• Corsair H80
• Corsair HX1050W
• Kingston V+ 100 128GB SSD
• Lian Li T60
• 3 x AOC E2795VH

We would like to thank AOC, Asus, Corsair, Kingston, and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.

Games used:

• Aliens Vs Predator
• Dirt 3
• F1 2011
• Batman: Arkham City – Due to issues with this game, no added CrossFire support has been included in DirectX 11 mode, though once a patch has been released to add this functionality, we will continue to use this for further CrossFire tests.
• Mafia II
• Metro 2033

Hardware used:

• Plug-in electricity usage monitor
• Sound level meter

Software used:

• 3DMark 11
• HWMonitor
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark
• Windows 7 Professional 64-bit