Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts


Although single card performance in Crysis sucked on the Foxconn A79A-S, CrossFire performance is considerably better and closes in on the Asus 790FX to within a fraction of a FPS. The effect of two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 versus x8 can be seen as quite considerable here as the Gigabyte 790GX drops several FPS behind both 790FX boards.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Publisher: Activision


The ET:QW performance is very good, certainly better than the older Asus 790FX and only a slightly slower than the Asus CrossHair which is based on the Nvidia 780a SLI MCP, however two 9800 GTX in SLI are faster anyway on this platform so directly comparing the HD 4870 CrossFire boards the Foxconn A79A-S is the fastest of the lot.

World in Conflict

Publisher: Sierra


Again in World in Conflict the Foxconn A79A-S is a fraction behind is other, older 790FX board from Asus in both minimum and average fps, but it's several frames per second faster on average than the Gigabyte 790GX. This is mostly because it has a pair of meatier PCI-Express 2.0 x16 lanes, instead of the two x8 slots available on the 790GX board.