Wow, is all I can say. A single 8800GTX is faster than shit obviously. I decided to concentrate on the 8800GTX benchmarks exclusively, as the card's competition and previous video cards don't support the new anti-aliasing modes. I feel that comparing 6x AA 16x AF to the 16xQ AA 16x AF modes of the 8800GTX card is not doing either of the cards justice. For a detailed look at performance versus the competition look to our 8800GTX review.
When SLI works, it seems to work extremely well. Unfortunately, the cases where it doesn't work it fails miserably. In one instance with two cards in SLI mode 3Dmark06 came up with a default run of 3350 way below that of a 7900GS card, much less a 8800GTX card. The CPU score was correct, but the GPU scores were way off. Therefore, I had no choice but to only use the benchmarks that I could reproduce with two cards in SLI mode. After learning the issue had to do with the motherboard BIOS I was using, I switched the test system to the new AMD FX-74 CPU and wow what a difference a stable system makes.
