****OFFICIAL AMD 6000 series overclocking and benchmark results thread****

[Skyrocket]

Ok here we go...

and finally as above but with gpu at 1000 and mem at 1200

The last run needed the fan set manually as the auto profile didn't ramp it up fast enough to prevent it glitching otherwise.

There's still life in the old dog yet. My previous run was with MLAA on ooops.

5870 1Gz-1.3Gz

 

[kylew]

We agree to disagree. For me, whether I own NVidia or ATI (and I have owned a lot of both), minimun fps is more important and noticeably distracting than average fps. Perhaps this is because I set Vsync on for everything. I find the importanct of min fps inversely proportional to that of max fps (which to me is meaningless), with avg sitting in the middle.

You're not disagreeing, I don't think you understand what the problem is. The minimum FPS is only useful when you know how long it occurred for. If you're playing a game with a pretty constant 60FPS 99.99% of the time, but the game drops to 1FPS for half a second while new textures are being loaded, your minimum FPS becomes one. For some one who doesn't quite get how that works, it can look like low performance.

All the minimum is, is the lowest framerate recorded through the benchmark, but it seems like you're thinking of the minimum framerate as meaning the lowest FPS you'll get over a period of time, like an average of the minimum framerates, which it isn't representative of.

It's hard to quantify the meaning of the minimal FPS without a graph that plots the framerate so you can see where it occurs and how often it occurs and how long that lasts, but then that would turn in to the average framerate. Average frame rate is what matters most when it comes to smooth gameplay. Most of the time though, the minimum framerate refers to a rapid drop, then climb in framerate. In the HardOCP graphs, you can see the drop to 14FPS is quite quick, and then it goes back up again.

When it comes to the average FPS though, you're going to realistically want the "mode", as in, the FPS that occurs the most, or a range of FPS that occur the most, and reallistically you'll want that to be in the region of 60 (if you're using vsync). If the most common FPS is around the 60FPS+ mark, you can be getting smooth consistent gameplay, even if the minimum at some point is 1FPS.

 

[easyrider]

Good to hear which 6870 did you get?

i'm hoping you got the sapphire unless trixx will also support the asus cards as asus are still using smartdoctor for the 6000 series and we all know that software is poop

Got the Asus mate

 

[Rhodan]

How's the Asus card for heat and noise, as it has that aluminium cover according to their website?

 

[bigjimmyauk]

any results for today ?

 

[easyrider]

How's the Asus card for heat and noise, as it has that aluminium cover according to their website?

Love this card

 

[easyrider]

any results for today ?

I ran Vantage Got P16815 sadly I haven't got around to testing further as I have been mad busy with the watching How to train your Dragon with the kids

I also Ran out of space on my SSD due to a Steam buy fest so I have to install another disk and get benching.

 

[hideki]

So the 6870 is cheaper and faster than the 5850 but not as fast as the 5870? Or can it be OC'd to beat it.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Can be overclocked to just beat it, saying that the 5870 can be clocked as well.

 

[^Andy^]

There appears to be something wrong with the 10.10a and 10.10c hotfix drivers.

My previous results using the 10.10a drivers with gpu at 1000 and mem at 1200 were..

Now after uninstalling those drivers, running driver cleaner to remove all traces and reinstalling the original 10.10 drivers fresh from the AMD download site I get the following using the same settings..

So looks like I'll be sticking with the original 10.10's for now!

 

[flopper]

6850.
950/1120
high quality set in ccc.

 

[^Andy^]

flopper - try the same settings using the original 10.10 drivers if you can spare the time.

 

[antran]

There appears to be something wrong with the 10.10a and 10.10c hotfix drivers.

I think there's something wrong with the driver too

crossfire doesn't work probably with bfbc2.

 

[WarpedMind]

Can't decide on whether to get a Gigabyte 460 or a Sapphire 6870 to replace my solid but overly aged GTX 275 OC.

 

[Skyrocket]

So looks like I'll be sticking with the original 10.10's for now!

Yeah I had the same problem. It appears to be Haven related only....

So you got 40.1 and I got 40.

so a
6870 (1,120SP) @ 1000 / 1200 beats
5870 (1,600SP) @ 1000 / 1300

VERY IMPRESSIVE!

so barts has improved tesselation.
Can you run it without tess?

 

[^Andy^]

Can you run it without tess?

Yup, I'll have a go at that tonight when I get home from work.

 

[Scougar]

When you say the 6870 beats the 5870, you are purely referring to IN THIS BENCHMARK right? The 5870 is still generally speaking the faster card? (i.e. in games)

 

[Voltage]

yes, 5870 is still faster on MOST things

 

[Scougar]

Thanks

 

[^Andy^]

Can you run it without tess?

Here you go..