Thread: 3.0 Benchmark Spreadshet

Nothing overclocked at current:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz
GTX 980 (single card)
16GB DDR4 RAM
SSD

Originally Posted by Saifaa

In response to the CPU usage of the game : all along the tests i did, the benchmark only ever used 1 CPU core, and frequency wasn't even @ max. (Big ass i7 5960X 8C@4.4GHz/4C@4.5GHz/2C@4.6GHz here, but it doesn't affect how the game use CPU, it's only ever one core, frequency will not be a good comparison between AMD / INTEL, but the cpu usage is more bandwidth than actual operation on the cpu from the game/benchmark)
But your CPU can be a bottleneck for your GPU.

Regarding 2.0 Bench vs 3.0, did you do both tests today with the same settings (DX9 Maximum for a fair comparison) ?
You can observe a small performance drop with DX11, for a small quality upgrade.

I have not run the 3.0 bench under dx9 yet, only 11 max

First run of DX11 maximum @ 2560x1440 (second image will likely break forum sizing)

Hey there, i've been posting this earlier in a lodestone blog post.

Although not that big a difference, display mode affects the score, so i suggest OP to add another recommendation : fullscreen (somewhat easier to play around with, you can use different resolution, and games perform better in fullscreen, better for benchmarking purposes)

Details in the blog post.

1920x1080 Fullscreen : 21578


2560x1440 Fullscreen : 14877


3840x2160 Fullscreen : 7603





Ask if you want other test settings

Originally Posted by Firepower

It probably didn't do crossfire because its in "borderless windowed mode" set it to full screen and try again, that score is very low for a crossfire set of 7870's or even 7850's.

Hrm, I never thought it would make that big a difference, but apparently it does. I tried it out, Full Screen my score was 7080.



Only problem seems to be that my main card still got really hot by the end of the benchmark, it was at at least 87 degrees.

When I went into the character creator it actually went up to 91 at one point when I checked after seeing obvious signs of my card being overheated (flickering in some parts of the graphics) and I had to close it down quickly to cool it off.

I am a bit saddened that at least my one card still runs hot. Haven't figured out how to see both simultaniously since the CCC only seems to let me view performance on one at a time as far as I can tell.