Silent_Scone said:

Can I just add, this game is ace

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Agreed. Awesome game and truly fantastic lighting effects. I recommend everyone follow Sugars advice from the previous page and tweak the engine settings. Up the shadow quality to 4096 and improve other little bits and bobs which improve the quality. Crossfire scaling is ace too. (as usual)

I know the benchmarks Clovis, I just couldn't see to many 970s on the leaderbaords outperforming older AMD cards. Unless those leaderboards havent been updated in quite a while and there are still plenty of benches to get updated.

This isn't meant to be bait, I was just expecting the 970s way way higher the way people been raving about them.

Silent_Scone said:

Can I just add, this game is ace

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I can't get into it, played it last night and just got bored easily, and i'm a massive Alien fan too

TonyTurbo78 said:

I know the benchmarks Clovis, I just couldn't see to many 970s on the leaderbaords outperforming older AMD cards. Unless those leaderboards havent been updated in quite a while and there are still plenty of benches to get updated.

This isn't meant to be bait, I was just expecting the 970s way way higher the way people been raving about them.

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Yeah i know, i was quite underwhelmed moving from 3 290's to 3 970's as i wanted to try out G-SYNC, i didn't feel like 3 970's were needed so dropped down to 2.

I'm now thinking about dropping the 970's when the 980 Classified hit the store.

Clov!s said:

290 is on par with a 970 anyway, it's not all about GPU power though, CPU plays a part in the score too.

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Well yeah but past 4.6GHz on a CPU in the Unigine benches and you wont see much help from it according to Kapp. I was also looking at your insane clocks on your 970's, nearly 1500 on the core and 2000 on the memory, that's hugely over the top of 290's and 7970's and it still doesn't score higher.

I get they are good cards because of the lower power, but everyone going on about how insanely fast they are, when actually when you look closer at the numbers, they are not. Seem like at best they are on par to me. Disappointing because I have a buyer for my 7950s in two weeks, I was going to get a couple of 970's, but after looking closer, hell no way. What do I buy now in place of the 2 7950's I'm selling lol. 980 is just way to much money for what it is, and I'm not jumping back to a 290x or a 780ti. pppfffttt

The reason i went with the 970's was because i could buy 3 cheaper than if i had got 2 980's lol, but if i was buying again, it would be a 980.

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Well yeah but past 4.6GHz on a CPU in the Unigine benches and you wont see much help from it according to Kapp. I was also looking at your insane clocks on your 970's, nearly 1500 on the core and 2000 on the memory, that's hugely over the top of 290's and 7970's and it still doesn't score higher.

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With Heaven 4 you won't see much improvement going over 4.6 with one or two cards. With Valley it is the other way round with two or more cards as it is a terrible CPU bottleneck for the cards and you need every last bit out of the CPU.

cheers Kaap, good to know

You can't really compare Nvidia and AMD clock for clock. Different architectures etc...
Also, different games and benches often favour one or the other - like Unigine for example.

A couple of 970's or 290's would be a noticeable upgrade from your 7950's, though whether you need to do it is another question that only you can answer.

Since Confused Stu is a bit lonely there ...

5760x1080: 4770K @ 4.6, 295X2 CF 1018/1575, 14.9.1

And on the scoreboard.

So I fired up this game last night on my 270x's on ultra settings and all that jazz, and it is super smooth with like 36% usage on each card.

Not submitting a score but thought I would share the video, Ran and recorded in 4K via Shadowplay and put some music over it as it was too quiet

Unless you have super internet let it buffer in 4K or just run it in 1080P for nearly the same quality.

Dicehunter said:

Not submitting a score but thought I would share the video, Ran and recorded in 4K via Shadowplay and put some music over it as it was too quiet

Unless you have super internet let it buffer in 4K or just run it in 1080P for nearly the same quality.

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Will you be entering some scores?

Kaapstad said:

Will you be entering some scores?

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Sure will dude but not until I get home from work later tonight

Shiari said:

Since Confused Stu is a bit lonely there ...

5760x1080: 4770K @ 4.6, 295X2 CF 1018/1575, 14.9.1

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Aw man! I've gone first to last following your score.

I'll have to see if I can close the gap if I ever actually get some time on my PC.

Bought this game yesterday and although I haven't played it yet ran the benchmark after finding this thread From the benchmark it appears that TXAAx1 doesn't get rid of fine jaggies at angles and was distracting otherwise looks good for the performance

Do we just run our own settings? (Vsync was on but benchmark ignores that )

24/7 clocks: 192x1080, [email protected], GTX780 Ti Classy @1250/1850, 340.52 WHQL

FMTopfan said:

Do we just run our own settings?

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The settings are in the 1st post

FMTopfan said:

Do we just run our own settings?

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Dicehunter said:

The settings are in the 1st post

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+1

5th spot, bumped the core clocks.

Sorry, I read through the posts and thought people were using different settings for fun

Here's mine as per Kapstad settings, (btw ingame menu is hard to read with that white text).
192x1080, [email protected], GTX780 Ti Classy @1385/1850, 340.52 WHQL