Benchmark Results: Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
Supreme Commander also has a reputation for brutalizing PC hardware, relying just as heavily on CPU power as it does on GPU power, while the Forged Alliance expansion only ups the ante. Luckily, real-time strategy games do not require many frames per second to remain playable. With that in mind, let’s have a look at the results of our benchmark:
We can see some definite CPU bottlenecking going on here. It does look like this title prefers the Radeon HD 4830 over the 8800 GT in multiple-card configurations. Since this is even happening at low resolutions, it’s likely that this game isn’t very well optimized to work with SLI.
Let’s add 4x AA and see if there are any major changes:
With AA enabled, the 4830s in CrossFire seem to be chugging along well while the 8800 GTs in SLI are slowed to the speed of a single card. Once again, it looks like this title is not well-optimized for SLI.
We can also see that 4xAA really isn’t an option for a single 4830 or 8800 GT in this game. However, the 4830s in CrossFire are definitely displaying a good value and do well even compared to the Radeon 4870 X2.
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And what is their power consumption? I'm surprised site are still missing this important point.
Glad to see that 4870X2 works BETTER with 4xAA than without... weird!
yesh got poo hangin off my bumhair.
yesh plz
I dont understand why no one has considered the 9800GT 1gb card. It has been very difficult for me to see if there is any real difference in the 512mb and 1gb 9800GT cards.
Naughty Toms... using a heavily overclocked 8800GT against stock 4830s
And it still got its rear spanked at the end of the day anyway! 
Don't know about Blighty but Germany and Ireland seem to be putting the two models reviewed around €95-110. Even stock 9800GTs cost a fair bit more than that!
And mromaus, I don't think the 9800GT 1GB has a huge performance margin over the stock until you hit at least 1900*1200. Higher resolutions than that would show major discrepancies but by then the GPU itself could be more of a bottleneck than the memory - HD4870 can still pull itself along at 2560*1600 in many games with a full 1GB (with 512MB the card runs out of memory at that res) but the 9800GT might not have enough grunt by then to make the extra memory worth it.
review seemed kinda biased, while straining to sound unbiased
I'm actually reading these comparisons to find a replacement for my 8800 GT, cause the Nvidia driver creating "registry full" problems (as discussed elsewhere on the web, and I've been unable to remedy)
I have a pair of sapphire 4830's, with bios modded to run 700/1000
for his epeen. 24/7 stable.
on the amd 7750 at 3.2Ghz. 2.2Ghz Hypertransport link AMD 790X. 4GB 1066 memory at 5-5-5 timing. 1368 X 720 res is the sweet spot for this setup. Crysis warhead on full smooth as silk. 64bit window 7. Blows away my mates Nvidia Geforce 280 Alienware at the same resolution and settings. Now he wants a second 280