Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts


Given the better memory performance it's understandable and expected that an nForce 780i SLI will be faster than the PEVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW, even though they both have "dual PCI-Express 2.0 x16" lanes. However, both use the NF200 chipset that may includes extra functions such as the Posted Write Shortcut and CPU Broadcast that benefits Nvidia SLI, but this chipset also forces two x16 lanes into a single x16.

The drop in bandwidth and general lower memory performance means the EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW loses nearly 5FPS to its bigger nForce brother. That's quite a margin in the Crysis stakes, especially when you see just a couple FPS separating the entire field on the previous page.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Publisher: Activision


The difference is less in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, as it's less system intensive then Crysis and it shows here with the EVGA board only dropping 3FPS to the full fat nForce 780i SLI.

World in Conflict

Publisher: Sierra


World in Conflict has a similar response to Crysis and the EVGA drops several FPS on average, but keeps a pretty consistent minimum FPS as the nForce 780i SLI.