We were surprised to learn that Futuremark's new Virtualmark benchmark makes you believe that a heavily overclocked Radeon 3870 X2 is the fastest graphics card around.

Virtual mark actually compares the scores of your machine to similar systems and usually gets you some approximate score. At least it's fast but we wouldn't count on much accuracy.

The machine with Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core at 5820MHz with Radeon 3870 X2 probably in Crossfire X scores 32513 Virtual marks. This looks to be the fastest card around and we suspect that we are talking about two dual chip Radeon 3870 X2s and that both CPU and GPUs are heavily overclocked.

The common reason tells us that Geforce 9800 GX2 in quad-SLI should be the fastest system around, but not according to Virtualmark. I guess that ATI simply clocks and scores better. 



You can try to run it yourself here.