Heaven 2.5 is out

straxusii · 3 Mar 2011 at 16:41

http://www.techpowerup.com/141449/U...chmarking-Suite-New-Professional-Edition.html

Unigine released the latest version of Unigine Heaven, one of the industry's first DirectX 11 compliant 3D graphics benchmark applications. Version 2.5 of the software expands its feature set a little, the product is also branched into two variants: a free "basic edition" that gives most of the product's functionality to consumers, overclockers, and gamers; and a paid "professional edition", that gives data-logging and specific-functionality to aid professionals such as analysts, and reviewers, priced at US $495. The professional variant is also backed by technical support.

As far as new features go, Heaven 2.5 introduced support for new DirectX 11 features such as indirect occlusion (SSDO) to simulate real-time global illumination, improved hardware support, improved quality of ambient occlusion, and a number of stability improvements that help maintain long sessions of benchmarking. It also added a new help file, and a snappier installer. The professional edition includes command line automation support, data-logging in CSV format, stress-testing, a commercial use license, and technical support.

Shayper · 3 Mar 2011 at 16:53

Cheers for the link, will post my results as soon as I can, hopefully my Xfire mins will go up

RavenXXX2 · 3 Mar 2011 at 17:08

Lost about 9 fps over previous version and you need netframework 4 installed for it to run.

pob9 · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:06

thanks downloading now

Shayper · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:17

Just finished downloading, took me 3 minutes :eek:

love this new internet

Richard99 · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:22

Shayper · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:27

Seems to be a lot more micro-stuttering than the last version.

New lighting looks fantastic though

pob9 · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:33

Richard99 · 3 Mar 2011 at 18:43

Some comparison shots. 2.1 then 2.5

rolypolyman · 3 Mar 2011 at 19:23

Richard99 said:

Thats a huge difference in Fps for min\avg\max. :confused:

Firegod · 3 Mar 2011 at 20:13

Not bad, wonder if I now set the clocks to 6970 speed if I would get more. Currently running a 6950 with unlocked shaders only.

Upping AF to x16 really hurts the MIN FPS. Wonder if my P35 chipset is holding back the system somehow? Unless it was an erroneous result.

TheRealDeal · 3 Mar 2011 at 21:09

Card at stock 0xaa

Core@1000 Memory@4600 0xaa

Card at stock 4xaa

Core@1000 Memory@4600 4xaa

I think your card is being held back by your system as my 6870 is pretty close on performance at the same settings.

mountaincow · 3 Mar 2011 at 23:07

A reasonable difference then.

Jono8 · 3 Mar 2011 at 23:33

Just put the new 480 through it's paces on this:

TheRealDeal · 3 Mar 2011 at 23:42

It seems to be around 20% less fps between the old and the new.

tommybhoy · 4 Mar 2011 at 00:04

X-Fire 6970's (as Heaven's got me as using a 'LogMeIn Mirror Driver' gpu :eek:

).

Up until test 18, minimums were 40fps then bam, my cpu hits the brick wall too!

added 4xAA:

Buckster · 4 Mar 2011 at 00:08

mmm - whys my 570 (only lightly clocked) - higher than the 480 and 580 above ? on an aging system too

Richard99 · 4 Mar 2011 at 00:13

Buckster said:
mmm - whys my 570 (only lightly clocked) - higher than the 480 and 580 above ? on an aging system too

youve got 0aa, the 480 had 4x, the 580 8x

TheRealDeal · 4 Mar 2011 at 00:14

The 480 is using 4xaa and the 580 is using 8xaa. From your screenshot it looks like you are using no aa.

Buckster · 4 Mar 2011 at 00:23

TheRealDeal said:
The 480 is using 4xaa and the 580 is using 8xaa. From your screenshot it looks like you are using no aa.

you are quite correct - I'd missed that - re-ran at 4xaa - thats more like it