ABIT AN8-SLI

General Performance:

ABIT's AN8-SLI proves to be slightly less resource intense than the other boards in both single card and SLI modes, while performing consistently well during our HD WMV9 testing.

The ABIT is merely a single second faster than the ECS in single card mode, while both are equal in SLI. The Sapphire falls another second behind, as does the Foxconn.

The AN8-SLI is about 20 seconds slower than the KN1 SLI Extreme over the 20 minutes of testing, but it's still just faster than the PI-A9RX480 Sapphire motherboard and is considerably faster than the Foxconn NF4SK8AA. In SLI mode, the ABIT seems to perform remarkably well, outperforming the KN1 SLI Extreme by half a minute. All of the SLI motherboards are slightly slower in SLI mode than when using a single GPU.

ABIT performs slightly better than the other boards we’ve tested. It proved to be four seconds faster than the ECS KN1 SLI Extreme in SLI mode, while the single card modes are fairly well-matched.

The ABIT AN8-SLI performs as consistently well as the ECS KN1 SLI Extreme and Sapphire PI-A9RX480 boards, pulling ahead by the smallest of fractions. However, the SLI overhead causes a slight performance deficit of a few seconds – it’s just a tad slower than the ECS KN1 SLI Extreme in SLI mode.