Man of Honour
I think you missed this one I posted earlier too.
Two card 1600p entry
2 x 290Xs @1230/1625
4930k @4.8
Two card 1600p entry
2 x 290Xs @1230/1625
4930k @4.8
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**The New Official THIEF-Incorporating Bench mark Thread**
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Caporegime
Finally i can beat Kaap at something, yay. 
I think you missed this one I posted earlier too.
Two card 1600p entry
2 x 290Xs @1230/1625
4930k @4.8
Sorry. i'm on it...
Done. i think...
Man of Honour
The 4 card 1600p Titan score is on the scoreboard and bottlenecked badly. I will need to turn them loose at 4K to really do a comparison. It is difficult for me to do 2 and 3 card Titan runs as the side of my LDV8 case is bolted on and I need to get in there to change the SLI connectors.
Caporegime
Ah that's a shame. I will ask Greg and Scotty to submit some entries then. It would be nice to have something to compare with to see if Mantle is offering equal or better performance than Nvidia DX in SLI in this game.
Man of Honour
Finally i can beat Kaap at something, yay.
Yes there IB-E CPUs are really crap at overclocking, I am not very hopeful for Haswell-E with the 5960X coming in at 3.0ghz lol.
Caporegime
It's odd that i can score higher than you with a technically slower cpu, memory, motherboard and gpu's.
Man of Honour
Hazard a guess DX11 wins with NVidia cards on the single GPU 1080p scores and Mantle will win with 2, 3 and 4 GPU setups.
Man of Honour
It's odd that i can score higher than you with a technically slower cpu, memory, motherboard and gpu's.
This game is all about raw CPU clockspeed even when using Mantle. Fast RAM does not really help in games either.
Having said that it will be interesting to see how things go at 4K where there is less fps but more data per frame.
Man of Honour
Entry
4 x 290Xs @1200/1625
1600p
4930k @4.8
Score is not much different to the 3 card score as there is a serious bottleneck.
QuadFire is working (check the max fps) but until I run at 4K there wont be much difference between 3 and 4 cards scores.
4 x 290Xs @1200/1625
1600p
4930k @4.8
Score is not much different to the 3 card score as there is a serious bottleneck.
QuadFire is working (check the max fps) but until I run at 4K there wont be much difference between 3 and 4 cards scores.
Caporegime
Thanks for the feedback Kaap. I will do what i can through official feedback to get crossfire performance improved.
Soldato
Entry
4 x 290Xs @1200/1625
1600p
4930k @4.8
Score is not much different to the 3 card score as there is a serious bottleneck.
QuadFire is working (check the max fps) but until I run at 4K there wont be much difference between 3 and 4 cards scores.
Nice score , how does it look at 4k ? I think the art style in this game is really nice bet it looks sweet at that resolution !
Man of Honour
There is not much wrong with quadfire, it just needs to be used at 4K to show the difference. I also think that the scaling at 4K will be around 90% or better.
If you check the difference between the max fps on my 3 and 4 card runs there is a good indicator as to how quadfire will perform at 4K once the CPU bottleneck is removed.
3 cards max fps 158.4
4 cards max fps 194.2
Increase in max fps 35.8
Man of Honour
Caporegime
There is not much wrong with quadfire, it just needs to be used at 4K to show the difference. I also think that the scaling at 4K will be around 90% or better.
If you check the difference between the max fps on my 3 and 4 card runs there is a good indicator as to how quadfire will perform at 4K once the CPU bottleneck is removed.
3 cards max fps 158.4
4 cards max fps 194.2
Increase in max fps 35.8
It's up to the developer by the way to improve this. There is very little AMD can do as the responsibility of the driver is now minimal in Mantle. I feel bad for pestering Thracks.
I've signed up to the Eidos forum but what are the chances of them listening to some newb from the internet who says the potential is there, but you need to work on 3/4 card scaling/performance under Mantle, or use Mantle more efficiently to lower than cpu bottleneck in 3/4 card setups? Will let you know if they respond to me.
Soldato
Man of Honour
It's up to the developer by the way to improve this. There is very little AMD can do as the responsibility of the driver is now minimal in Mantle. I feel bad for pestering Thracks.
I don't think there is anymore Mantle could do, it is already noticeably quicker than DX11 in Thief. I don't think there is anymore overhead for Mantle to remove.
Mantle can not make up for a badly written game, it can only make it as easy as possible for the CPU to run it.
Mantle is already about 10% faster than DX11 running multi GPU setups in Thief.
Caporegime
I don't think there is anymore Mantle could do, it is already noticeably quicker than DX11 in Thief. I don't think there is anymore overhead for Mantle to remove.
Mantle can not make up for a badly written game, it can only make it as easy as possible for the CPU to run it.
Mantle is already about 10% faster than DX11 running multi GPU setups in Thief.
Maybe im expecting too much. Still it will be interesting to see what they say and if they respond. It would be magically to see Mantle showcase good three to four gpu scaling at 1080P/1440P/1600P in a game that runs so horribly (scaling wise) on like minded three to four way DirectX gpu setups.
Man of Honour