Chronic's 3870X2 Benches

[Chronictank]

Now these are benches for my system for a single instance of a single card, they are not to be taken as gospel for performance or for comparative purposes. if anything they are lower performance as my card is heavily bottlenecked.

Testbed:
Intel C2D [email protected]
DFI Ininity 975x Bios 12/01/06
GEIL 4GB PC6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual
HIS Ati 3870 X2 @ Stock - 8.3+Hotfix
WD5000AAKS 1TB Raid 0
OCZ GameXStream 700w Silent
Windows Vista 64 Ultimate SP1

GPU and CPU-Z:


Testing method:
Retail Fraps version 2.9.3 build 6914
running its benchmark for 600 seconds (later reduced to 300 for later games as it was taking too long to do each resolution) while playing the game.
No timedemos were done other than where it is stated.

Ati CCC Settings:
Standard Settings: Performance
Everything set to Application Settings except;
Catalyst AI: Advanced
Minimap Detail Level: Quality
Vertical Refresh: Always Off
Adaptive AA: Disabled

Other considerations:
A 42" Samsung HDTV is also plugged in via HDMI running at 1080p and set to extended mode, i dont know if this made a difference as i didnt test it.
GPU Scaling was disabled via CCC

Call of Duty 4 - Sniper Map
Original version, no patches applied

Max Settings: 1680x1050 - 4x AA, Extra Textures

Frames: 7049
Time (ms): 69063
Min: 46
Max: 123
Avg: 102.066

1680x1050 - No AA

Frames: 51023
Time (ms): 458737
Min: 57
Max: 311
Avg: 111.225

Crysis - dx10, x64
Original, no patches applied
Note: When the checkpoints happened the framerate dipped significantly which may account for the low minimum's, other than that there was no noticable slowdown to indicate the min fps error still occured in this game

1680x1050 - No AA Medium Settings

Frames: 33876
Time (ms): 600000
Min: 25
Max: 103
Avg: 56.46

1680x1050 - 8x AA, Medium Settings
Frames: 8676
Time (ms): 505730
Min: 7
Max: 55
Avg: 17.155

1680x1050 - No AA, High Settings
Frames: 28750
Time (ms): 600000
Min: 24
Max: 88
Avg: 47.917

1280x1024 - No AA, High Settings
Frames: 4433
Time (ms): 65683
Min: 23
Max: 114
Avg: 46.51

1280x1024 - No AA, Very High Settings
Frames: 7237
Time (ms): 600000
Min: 10
Max: 39
Avg: 24.123

The similar min fps on all the resolutions and settings (bar dx10) confirmed my suspicion that the min fps was due to checkpoint saves

Command and Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars
No patches, 4 way Scrin battle as they have the biggest visual effects
1680x1050 - 3xaa (i think), Max settings

Frames: 8595
Time (ms): 283826
Min: 27
Max: 31
Avg: 30.283

FPS seems capped at 30, but no very low min fps so powerplay is not an issue

Mount and Blade 9.03 + High res texture pack
Tested in a 72vs80 troop skirmish (cavalry, footsoldier mix)
1680x1050.32bit - 4xAA, Ultra High Textures, Texture Details 100 (Shaders and Bump Mapping enabled)

Frames: 35646
Time (ms): 223742
Min: 84
Max: 200
Avg: 159.317

 

[Chronictank]

Oblivion
Original, no patches
Walking up to and around The Imperial City as the dungeon didnt really have all that much in it
1680x1050 - Max settings

Frames: 85371
Time (ms): 166127
Min: 58
Max: 1869
Avg: 513.89

I found the above somewhat unbelievable so i took the results again:
Frames: 50337
Time (ms): 300000
Min: 48
Max: 1193
Avg: 367.79

I think this may be a result of opening the inventory, i didn't get time to check

Rainbow 6 Vegas v1.4
Latest patch as far as i am aware
1280x900 (Max resolution game supports) - I couldnt find the AA setting but rest is on max

Frames: 32672
Time (ms): 300000
Min: 50
Max: 175
Avg: 108.907

This game absolutely awful on high settings on my GTS 640, i guess the drivers are to blame for this one on the green team

Stalker - v1.0001
1680x1050 - Maxed Settings

Frames: 26083
Time (ms): 300000
Min: 39
Max: 164
Avg: 86.943

Another game that ran awful on my GTS

CSS
1680x1050 - Maxed settings

I tested the card using the in-built benchmark

Frames: 13623
Time (ms): 59886
Min: 145
Max: 301
Avg: 227.482

CS Game (De_Aztec 8 player match) - Max Settings
I initially had big stuttering problems when i played cs (not on the ingame video test)but doing max_fps 300 fixed this
Frames: 56924
Time (ms): 274212
Min: 115
Max: 282
Avg: 257.591

 

[Chronictank]

If you have any specific requests i can run a quick bench on that too, the above are the games i have installed

Still to be done:

Battlefield 2
FEAR - Directors Cut
Gears of War
Quake Wars: ET
The Witcher
Unreal Tournament 3
HL2: Ep2
Team Fortress 2

 

[simonnance]

which driver is that? 8.3 + hotfix?

 

[Chronictank]

yeah, 8.3 with the hotfix installed over the top
Bear in mind i did suffer from the powerplay issue on COD4 and Crysis, the flashbang bug has also been fixed for me

 

[jambus]

Just like to say, very nice post mate =D a very nice set of benchmarks there. I do have one query, what sort of performance did you get on CSS? Last thing, is it possible to benchmark 800x600 very high Crysis? Would greatly appreciate it mate as my setup is similar to yours, nice for a comparison etc. Thanks

 

[jambus]

Also, just want to point out how much of an improvement this is over some of the original benchmarks we saw, clearly the drivers are maturing, well done ATI =D

 

[Chronictank]

Just like to say, very nice post mate =D a very nice set of benchmarks there. I do have one query, what sort of performance did you get on CSS? Last thing, is it possible to benchmark 800x600 very high Crysis? Would greatly appreciate it mate as my setup is similar to yours, nice for a comparison etc. Thanks

the crybench would be more sensible for a side by side comparison, as there are umpteen different things that can affect gameplay scores but here you go


800x600 - 8x AA, Very High
Frames: 5664
Time (ms): 218655 (i died doing something stupid hehe)
Min: 6
Max: 59
Avg: 25.904

800x600 -No AA, Very High
Frames: 13953
Time (ms): 300000
Min: 23
Max: 114
Avg: 46.51

Crybench utility:

29/03/2008 23:59:07 - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 800x600, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: VeryHigh
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 63.68s, Average FPS: 31.41
Min FPS: 18.80 at frame 1954, Max FPS: 45.60 at frame 1000
Average Tri/Sec: -22517080, Tri/Frame: -716905
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.28
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 61.34s, Average FPS: 32.60
Min FPS: 18.62 at frame 1943, Max FPS: 47.65 at frame 107
Average Tri/Sec: -23014020, Tri/Frame: -705891
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.30
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 61.56s, Average FPS: 32.49
Min FPS: 18.62 at frame 1943, Max FPS: 49.89 at frame 81
Average Tri/Sec: -22808344, Tri/Frame: -702021
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.31
TimeDemo Play Ended, (3 Runs Performed)
==============================================================

Completed All Tests

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29/03/2008 23:59:07 - Vista 64

Run #1- DX10 800x600 AA=No AA, 64 bit test, Quality: VeryHigh ~~ Overall Average FPS: 32.545

30/03/2008 00:04:17 - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 800x600, AA=8x, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: VeryHigh
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 83.04s, Average FPS: 24.08
Min FPS: 17.08 at frame 1950, Max FPS: 36.71 at frame 1622
Average Tri/Sec: -16831492, Tri/Frame: -698868
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.31
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 67.40s, Average FPS: 29.67
Min FPS: 17.08 at frame 1950, Max FPS: 40.38 at frame 76
Average Tri/Sec: -20405740, Tri/Frame: -687643
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.33
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 67.57s, Average FPS: 29.60
Min FPS: 16.83 at frame 1952, Max FPS: 40.38 at frame 76
Average Tri/Sec: -20272020, Tri/Frame: -684898
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.34
TimeDemo Play Ended, (3 Runs Performed)
==============================================================

Completed All Tests

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30/03/2008 00:04:17 - Vista 64

Run #1- DX10 800x600 AA=8x, 64 bit test, Quality: VeryHigh ~~ Overall Average FPS: 29.635

 

[jambus]

Thankyou very much for your response, I'm getting my rig. back on tuesday, will benchmark it for a comparison!