Yo!
Been thrashing these new cards today, Heaven benchmark scores are all well and good but what we ALL want to know is how these babies run BF3!
When all said and done, there isn't any other game worth playing so...
X79 motherboard
8 Core 2011 Xeon with HT
16GB Dominator GT 2133
1200W Antec PSU
benchmarks taken in game with fraps
60 second recording time
first person gameplay [not using vehicles]
Map Played - Caspian Boarder
min,max,avg recorded
Running at 2560X1600 with all settings on maximum.
System was quiet using a single card and fairly quiet using two cards but very loud with three cards.
being used to water-cooled graphics cards, I was shocked at how quiet the stock cooler is. I really like the way that the idle cards turn off when on desktop too.
That, is smart.
Another thing that was surprising was the smoothness of the game, even when fraps was reporting the fps at below 40
Tri fire decimated everything though. as we expected.
I did three runs at 2560X1600 with one, two and three cards
I then did the benchmark on a single card at 1080p as well using the same settings.
here are the results:
GTX 580 3GB Testing with a marginal overclock [similar to the clock on the 7970s, slight increase of the speeds on stock volts] 850 core on both cards.
Been thrashing these new cards today, Heaven benchmark scores are all well and good but what we ALL want to know is how these babies run BF3!
When all said and done, there isn't any other game worth playing so...
X79 motherboard
8 Core 2011 Xeon with HT
16GB Dominator GT 2133
1200W Antec PSU
benchmarks taken in game with fraps
60 second recording time
first person gameplay [not using vehicles]
Map Played - Caspian Boarder
min,max,avg recorded
Running at 2560X1600 with all settings on maximum.
System was quiet using a single card and fairly quiet using two cards but very loud with three cards.
being used to water-cooled graphics cards, I was shocked at how quiet the stock cooler is. I really like the way that the idle cards turn off when on desktop too.
That, is smart.
Another thing that was surprising was the smoothness of the game, even when fraps was reporting the fps at below 40
Tri fire decimated everything though. as we expected.
I did three runs at 2560X1600 with one, two and three cards
I then did the benchmark on a single card at 1080p as well using the same settings.
here are the results:
GTX 580 3GB Testing with a marginal overclock [similar to the clock on the 7970s, slight increase of the speeds on stock volts] 850 core on both cards.
/smug
