New 6990 slower than 5970, huh?

CaptainRAVE · 5 May 2011 at 20:39

What the hell? I just ran the Heaven benchmark and results show that my old 5970 that I benched before I sold it scored higher than my new 6990?

5970 (10.4 drivers)

6990 (11.4 drivers)

Am I missing something here?

w3bbo · 5 May 2011 at 20:41

yeah, 11.4 drivers are slower in heaven. Try some games

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CaptainRAVE · 5 May 2011 at 20:42

Games are fine, just wasn't expecting that! Good to know though.

arc@css · 5 May 2011 at 23:07

When you get the chance, bench a few games and provide some feedback?

JeffyB · 5 May 2011 at 23:57

I stopped using heaven as a gauge of performance improvements from new drivers a long time ago, infact i rarely use any benchmarks. Just fire up the games you play

arc@css · 6 May 2011 at 00:00

Apart from a run or two in Heaven I haven't bothered with anything, though I might have ago with Tropical, purely 'cause it's pretty.

chaparral · 6 May 2011 at 02:15

Can you post a run at these settings http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249292

hyperst · 6 May 2011 at 03:02

Something looks wrong, my GTX480 at stock scores better.

Not quite the same res, but close, would have thought 6990 would be breaking 900-1000 at that res

arc@css · 6 May 2011 at 03:07

Yeah, mine was around 10 - 11 min and 100 + max, so something isn't quite right there.

CaptainRAVE · 6 May 2011 at 08:10

I guess when looking at the leaderboards at http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249292 it doesn't look to bad in comparison to other similar GPUs.

subbytna · 6 May 2011 at 08:29

JeffyB said:
I stopped using heaven as a gauge of performance improvements from new drivers a long time ago, infact i rarely use any benchmarks. Just fire up the games you play

welcome to the "getting older and don't give a ****" phase

...next you'll be ignoring all the e-peen swinging and be content with your rig like us oldies

johny dolan · 6 May 2011 at 08:56

My 6990 does 88 fps with 11.4 drivers so something wrong there.

CaptainRAVE · 6 May 2011 at 09:04

88fps at stock? Have flipped the switch now to see what difference that makes. Think I might uninstall and clean up the drivers next (I have gone back to older versions a few times without using driver sweeper). Could my 850W PSU not be providing enough power? Last resort might be a fresh install of windows?

JeffyB · 6 May 2011 at 09:39

subbytna said:
welcome to the "getting older and don't give a ****" phase

...next you'll be ignoring all the e-peen swinging and be content with your rig like us oldies

Yeah i get the upgrade itch less and less which suits my wallet. However i do enjoy more extreme overclocking lately though which has the potential to be just as expensive

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18993483&postcount=284

johny dolan · 6 May 2011 at 09:39

Stock but with fast bios selected.I also have 2600k cpu @ 4.5 which maybe gives some help as well though.

JeffyB · 6 May 2011 at 09:42

Back to the op though, something does seem up as a 6990 should do better than that. Is it running fullscreen and using both gpu's?

CaptainRAVE · 6 May 2011 at 09:57

I think I found the problem. I needed to switch crossfireX off for Sims 3 - for some reason it never came back on.

New result below (with bios switched across):

Is this more what I would expect?

Dea924 · 6 May 2011 at 11:01

Looks about right, if it's using crossfire now and your scores have doubled then it's working :-)

nice card btw .. I wonder if it's a little held back by the CPU . Whilst a good processor don't get me wrong I bet the score would be even better with the 25/2600ks

johny dolan · 6 May 2011 at 12:31

Its way low you should get high 70s fps maybe into the 80s my 6990 on its own scored 88fps but i have faster cpu.

Im running 6990 with 6970 now in trifire and this is what that scores

119.6 fps

score 3013

min37.5 fps

max 267.2 fps

Heres the copy n paste of the run i just did

FPS:

119.6

Scores:

3013

Min FPS:

37.5

Max FPS:

267.2

Hardware

Binary:

Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011

Operating system:

Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit

CPU model:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

CPU flags:

3400MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT

GPU model:

AMD Radeon HD 6990 8.840.9.0 CrossFireX 2048Mb

Settings

Render:

direct3d11

Mode:

1920x1080 fullscreen

Shaders:

high

Textures:

high

Filter:

trilinear

Anisotropy:

4x

Occlusion:

enabled

Refraction:

enabled

Volumetric:

enabled

Tessellation:

normal

thats with fast bios so both cards running at 6970 clocks and cpu @ 4.5

My last cards 5970 + 5870 scored 98 fps

Heres the score with just the 6990

FPS:

89.2

Scores:

2247

Min FPS:

42.2

Max FPS:

205.2

Hardware

Binary:

Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011

Operating system:

Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit

CPU model:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz

CPU flags:

3400MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT

GPU model:

AMD Radeon HD 6990 8.840.3.0 CrossFireX 2048Mb

Settings

Render:

direct3d11

Mode:

1920x1080 fullscreen

Shaders:

high

Textures:

high

Filter:

trilinear

Anisotropy:

4x

Occlusion:

enabled

Refraction:

enabled

Volumetric:

enabled

Tessellation:

normal

gareth170 · 6 May 2011 at 13:33

@johny dolan, your using much lower setting than OP

his using

Render:
direct3d11

Mode:
1920x1200 8x AA fullscreen

Shaders:
high

Textures:
high

Filter:
trilinear

Anisotropy:
16x

Occlusion:
enabled

Refraction:
enabled

Volumetric:
enabled

Tessellation:
extreme