13.10 Beta Driver Performance - 7950 Crossfire 925/1250 & 1125/1600

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:20

Specs

i7 2700k@ 4.8ghz
8Gb DDR3 2133Mhz
2x7950 @925/1250
Windows 8
13.10 Drivers
Frame pacing enabled
1440P

Benchmarking Procedure & Settings

FOV (where applicable) 82
Ultra/Extreme Preset used from in game options.

Battlefield 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5b3vK-TY
Bioshock - Used in game benchmark
Crysis 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjqhSAnAo
Dirt Showdown - Used in game benchmark
Farcry 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2gDhEMfyk
Hitman Absolution - Used in game benchmark
Metro 2033 - Used in game benchmark
Metro Last Light - Used in game benchmark
Tomb Raider - Used in game benchmark
Sleeping Dogs - Used in game benchmark
3DMark 11 - Firestrike
Unigine Valley - Extreme HD

7950 Crossfire - Stock

10860 with AMD Radeon HD 7950(2x) and Intel Core i7-2700K Processor
Graphics Score 13597
Physics Score 12256
Combined Score 4052

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1180973?

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:20

Specs

i7 2700k@ 4.8ghz
8Gb DDR3 2133Mhz
2x7950 @1125/1500
Windows 8
13.10 Drivers
Frame pacing enabled

Benchmarking Procedure & Settings

FOV (where applicable) 82
Ultra/Extreme Preset used from in game options.

Battlefield 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5b3vK-TY
Bioshock - Used in game benchmark
Crysis 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjqhSAnAo
Dirt Showdown - Used in game benchmark
Farcry 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2gDhEMfyk
Hitman Absolution - Used in game benchmark
Metro 2033 - Used in game benchmark
Metro Last Light - Used in game benchmark
Tomb Raider - Used in game benchmark
Sleeping Dogs - Used in game benchmark
3DMark 11 - Firestrike
Unigine Valley - Extreme HD

7950 Crossfire - Overclocked

12660 with AMD Radeon HD 7950(2x) and Intel Core i7-2700K Processor
Graphics Score 16376
Physics Score 12213
Combined Score 4784

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1181662?

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:21

These definitely seem the fastest, stable, frame pacing enabled drivers so far.

The metro games are horribly optimized. I appear to be rather heavily cpu bottlenecked in those titles.

shankly1985 · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:25

Nice work as always Matt

shankly1985 · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:25

LtMatt said:
These definitely seem the fastest, stable, frame pacing enabled drivers so far.

The metro games are horribly optimized. I appear to be rather heavily cpu bottlenecked in those titles.

Not played Metro LL on this driver set yet, but on 13.8 beta1 game was super smooth for me.

teppic · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:27

Very good performance!

The Metro games are very nvidia-optimised. I bet it's running PhysX stuff on the CPU.

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:28

shankly1985 said:
Not played Metro LL on this driver set yet, but on 13.8 beta1 game was super smooth for me.

I'm talking about the crappy benchmarks in the metro games. The game itself always ran fine for me as well. Still they could have at least sorted it out you'd think with the new game.

shankly1985 · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:05

LtMatt said:
I'm talking about the crappy benchmarks in the metro games. The game itself always ran fine for me as well. Still they could have at least sorted it out you'd think with the new game.

O sorry fort you was talking about game itself.

vonex · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:10

Nice work buddy... Just updated from 13.8b2

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:04

shankly1985 said:
O sorry fort you was talking about game itself.

Nay bother lad.

vonex said:
Nice work buddy... Just updated from 13.8b2

This is the best driver yet imo.

Would be interesting to see a website review it and see how much better the frame times are, specifically in the titles mentioned.

Phixsator · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:44

any of you having issues with the second card running at full speed even when idle but only when crossfire is enabled?

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 09:00

Phixsator said:
any of you having issues with the second card running at full speed even when idle but only when crossfire is enabled?

Both cards clocking down as normal fine here, but i have ULPS disabled.

Phixsator · 7 Sep 2013 at 10:11

LtMatt said:
Both cards clocking down as normal fine here, but i have ULPS disabled.

I thought i had as well but apparently i didnt.. now that i do it clocks down just fine.. god darn ULPS!

flopper · 7 Sep 2013 at 10:46

tried 13.10 but lost my 120hz for some reason as 60hz was the only option.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:02

Phixsator said:
I thought i had as well but apparently i didnt.. now that i do it clocks down just fine.. god darn ULPS!

Why do you think i always say to disable it?

Its a nice idea in principle, but for the sake of 10 extra watt usage you get more fps and smoother performance.

vonex · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:15

flopper said:
tried 13.10 but lost my 120hz for some reason as 60hz was the only option.

strange, i still have 120hz option.

Angst · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:17

vonex said:
strange, i still have 120hz option.

same here

Angst · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:18

Gained 3 fps in bioshock, tomb raider runs well but i have no previous benchmarks to compare it against unfortunately.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:24

Tomb Raider frame time has improved, i know for a fact as i can notice a difference in the benchmark. Not that it was bad before, but there was a little part near the start of the bench that had a tiny bit stutter. That's now gone completely.

shankly1985 · 7 Sep 2013 at 13:10

Also loving this driver, it's the best driver so far. Everything just feels super smooth