The latest review (by CPC) of the most powerful ATi card shows that it still struggles producing 2560 resolution in Crysis full everything. But what frame rates does it produce in Crysis when powering 3 monitors at 5760 resolution in Eyefinity? I wonder if GFX card tests now have to include crossfire and SLi, as well as Eyefinity resolutions as standard. Afterall, 2560 resolution is no longer the maximum for home PC's.
This is a really bad idea. Benchmarking graphics cards is not about testing them at hypothetical maximum resolutions. It's about useful results that users can apply to their own systems. You just said yourself that the top card in the world struggles at the highest resolution for Crysis, so can you explain to me the point of upping the resolution to see exactly how low the FPS will go?
Knowledge is (buying) power. As for 5760 being a hypothetical res ... really? Can you explain what makes the resolution hypothetical? Eyefinity max resolution is 7680x3200 ... I will upgrade within the next 10 months depending on catching the right peak in GFX and CPU releases and I want the best available. So to suggest limiting GFX testing to resolutions under 2560 doesn't fit my future needs. 3D is another need of mine. In an ideal world my setup would be one very large curved monitor running @ 7680x3200 and whatever was needed to run the best within a very sexy case.
And you are within an absolutely minuscule fraction of hardware buyers. Why should bit tech change their testing methods just for about 10 people who have the cash and inclination? There's nothing wrong with you being interested in it, but please don't dress it up like it would be helping the majority of bit tech readers because it wouldn't. Lots of games don't even support eyefinity.
Well I too would like to see more results showing higher resolution. But I don't think you would need to post results of 7680x3200 as I can't see many people owning a setup like that. So therefore I think the common triple monitor res is 5760x1200.
