Battlefield 4 Performance - Eyefinity and Surround (5,760 x 1,080)

For this test and our 4K one (over the page), we've selected only the three highest end single GPU cards from AMD and Nvidia as well as their current dual GPU offerings. Pretty much anyone that's willing to invest in these display set-ups and use them for gaming will also be willing to fork out for the costly hardware to power them without sacrificing too much quality. Also, the tests at these resolutions are so demanding that most results for the lower end cards will be irrelevant anyway.


Simply put, this test is brutal. The HD 7990 has a clear advantage as a well optimised dual GPU solution, with Nvidia's alternative much less successful on average and stuttering through the test to produce a low minimum too. Even the R9 290X, thus far the best single GPU at the high and ultra presets, barely manages a playable framerate - you certainly wouldn't want to use just one of them if a triple monitor set-up is what you had in mind.


The GTX 690 doesn't stutter here, and thus takes over the single GPU offerings, but even so the HD 7990 still eclipses it with a minimum framerate that's over a third faster. Likewise, while the GTX 780 Ti and GTX Titan match the average framerates of the R9 290X and R9 290 respectively (which still isn't a great result for them), their minimums are far below. The Nvidia cards also improve by less than the AMD ones do as a result of the transition from ultra to high here.


At medium, the HD 7990 is still way ahead, which suggests that multi-GPU set-ups will be well catered for by AMD. The GTX 780 Ti edges ahead of the R9 290X here too, as the GTX Titan does over the R9 290, although the GTX 780 (which is still a very expensive card, remember) is left trailing.