Our test system was Windows Vista Home Ultimate with ATI Catalyst 8.5.2 beta drivers and Forceware 177.41. The highest setting was tested except in 3DMark and DirectX10 was always used. FRAPS and custom time demos were used.

We'll start things off with Call of Duty 4 and here AMD does a phenomenal job all around. The 4870X2 brings in an amazing 117.1 frames per second at the highest resolution possible even with everything maxed out. It even tops to 4870's in CF owing probably due to the extra RAM and bandwidth the card provides. It tops it by a fairly large margin of 23fps as well.

Crysis tends to favor Nvidia and it does so in our results as well. Our 4870X2 seems to be limited unfortunately by our Phenom test system as Crysis is very CPU hungry. Nvidia gains an edge here but that's about the only case.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 again shows how fast the 4870X2 is again topping the pair of 4870's in Crossfire when we max everything out. Asus' new GeForce 260 Overclocked does a good job though of keeping up with the 4870.