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6970 Crossfire Bottleneck?

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Hey guys is it likely that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU performance?

When I ran Vantage at 4.5ghz I was able to get 33k score, but when I clocked my CPU to 4.8ghz the GPU score rose to 37k and when I clocked my GPU higher the score did not change...

Can anyone clarify this? Is it just Vantage and should I really be using something else to test performance?
 
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Can anyone clarify this? Is it just Vantage and should I really be using something else to test performance?

Yes, video games is a great place to start.
 
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