Crysis

Crysis is without a doubt, the game that needs the power of 3-Way SLI the most. Even with a pair of GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards running in SLI, the frame rate can hit the single digits! Let's take a look at the game's performance:

Crysis – Direct3D

Crysis Performance 1600x1200
Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra 3-Way SLI	18.1	37
GeForce 8800 Ultra 2-Way SLI	16.8	26.3
GeForce 8800 Ultra Single Card	8.3	13.6

Crysis Performance 1920x1200
Card	Min FPS	Max FPS
GeForce 8800 Ultra 3-Way SLI	9.1	27.9
GeForce 8800 Ultra 2-Way SLI	5.9	19.7
GeForce 8800 Ultra Single Card	4.7	10.4

Notes

Even though 3-Way SLI support is still a work in progress, Crysis shows good scaling for 3-Way already in our opinion. Again, we couldn’t get 2560x1600 to run with 3-Way, but 16x12 and 1920x1200 both ran great and offer nearly a 30% performance increase with conventional 4xMSAA.