We re-visit GeForce GTX 460 1GB SLI vs. Radeon HD 5870 CrossFireX performance using new Catalyst drivers and new CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a. We also have a new BETA ForceWare driver in play and we will now see how these video card configurations compete with updated software.

In our second follow-up, following the comparison of GeForce GTX 460 1GB SLI versus Radeon HD 5850 CrossFireX, we are now going to make the comparison to Radeon HD 5870 CrossFireX. On August 9th, 2010 we saw GeForce GTX 460 1GB SLI tearing up even high-end Radeon HD 5870 CrossFireX in AvP and BC2. Performance however changed with the ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a.

In this article we will compare GTX 460 1GB SLI versus 5870 CrossFireX using the 1.8 updated drivers and application profiles plus NVIDIA’s new Release 260.52 ForceWare driver.

This evaluation uses Catalyst 10.8 WHQL plus ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a for the HD 5870 CFX configuration. For the GTX 460 1GB SLI configuration we are using ForceWare 260.52 BETA drivers, which will be out this week.

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