Arkham City DX11 Benchmarking - 1080p & 1440p - Green vs Red Team

Besty · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:02

Been doing some testing with Batman, looks like most of the woes have been fixed for multi-GPU's, time to bench!

Benchmark Specification

- Screenshot be taken with In-game benchmark tool result via screen grab (eg.fraps)
- Screenshot must be done with validated GPU-z
- Please state CPU clock if not clear in CPU-z
- Please post a thumbnail screenshot or resize
- All GPU setups (1x, 2x, 3x, 4x card) welcome.

- Benchmark must use the following settings for 1080p, just change the resolution for 1440p benches.

Leader Board

1080p

1. Besty - 2 x 7970 - 71min 280 max 149avg
2. Nuwidol - 2 x GTX680 - 21min 283max 148avg
3. pgi947 - 1 x GTX670 - 46min 187max 141avg
4. James J - 2 x GTX580 - 36min 241max 140avg
5. Besty - 1 x 7970 - 56min 206 max 136avg
6. RichH - 1 x 7950 - 41min 173max 131avg
7. Straxusii - 1 x GTX680 - 57min 176max 126avg
8. Arron17 - 1 x 7850 Min30 Max124 99Avg
9. Kharma45 - 1 x 7850 - 24min 119max 87Avg
10. SeraphX - 2 x 5850 Min2 Max118 79Avg

1440p
1. Besty - 2 x7970 - 59min 235max 134avg
2. Nuwidol 2 x GTX680 - 18min 188avg 133avg
3. Layte - 2 x GTX480 - 28min 138max 103avg
4. Besty - 1x 7970 - 41 min 131max 103avg

Besty · 27 Mar 2012 at 23:03

I will kick-off with my results at max 7970 ULPS clocks 1125/1575 at 1.25V

CPU is 3960K @ 4.2GHZ, 64GB RAM.

3 x 7970

1440p - 3 min 198 max 114 avg
1080p - 41 min 232 max 124 avg

2 x 7970

1440p - 46 min 137 max 97 avg
1080p - 35 min 182 max 115 avg

1 x 7970

1440p - 27 min 73 max 62 avg
1080p - 38 min 98 max 82 avg

GPU-Z Validation: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/aydbw/

layte · 28 Mar 2012 at 00:20

Just a quick 1440p run.

min:28
max:138
avg:103

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2x480@900core 2050mem

That's with a bunch of crap running in the background as well (about 200 firefox tabs, 20 chrome tabs and enough notification icons to sink a battleship). Not bad for a couple of two year old cards.

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 11:34

Nice 1 Layte.

I am back at single GPU for a rather good OC on a 7970 @ 1300/1870/1.3V

3960 @ 4.5GHZ

1440p
min:33
max:124
avg: 82

1080p
min:24
max:198
avg:108

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/4ecz6/

metalmackey · 31 Mar 2012 at 12:05

Why FXAA and not 8xMSAA?

vintage-x · 31 Mar 2012 at 14:30

metalmackey said:
Why FXAA and not 8xMSAA?

FXAA takes less of a hit on fps and looks pretty much the same as far as I'm aware

metalmackey · 31 Mar 2012 at 15:02

Ah, I thought FXAA blurred things or am I wrong? So many AA's now LOL FSAA, MSAA, MLAA, FXAA and Super AA

arc@css · 31 Mar 2012 at 15:07

More than that I think.

James J · 31 Mar 2012 at 15:37

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560937726287002014/E4A6D891D26DF041B186124231F2A2265CCEA978/

Done at 1080p:

Min 36
Max 241
Average 140

2x 580 3gbs at 900 core/1800/2100 which is my usual 24/7 overclock. Not tried on max overclock which is approaching 1ghz on both cards and a higher memory oc!

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/f8ss8/

nalla · 31 Mar 2012 at 15:46

hmm so looking at that, layte's 2 x 480's min is low but the max and average are better than besty's 2 x 7970's, impressive

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:12

updated results

CPU is 3960K @ 4.7GHZ, 64GB RAM.

3 x 7970 1240/1600 at 1.3V @ 50C
2 x 7970 1290/1855 at 1.3V @ 40C

1440p - 5 min 269 max 139 avg
1080p - 56 min 286 max 135 avg

2 x 7970

1440p - 57 min 222 max 132 avg
1080p - 61 min 262 max 138 avg

3GPU - http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/fmhz7/
2GPU - http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/n46uf/

James J · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:13

Negative scaling with the 3rd card besty?

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:14

nalla said:
hmm so looking at that, layte's 2 x 480's min is low but the max and average are better than besty's 2 x 7970's, impressive

I reckon dual 680's on water will be awesome for this game still, I managed to unlock the overclocking software and the 7970's seem to love that extra 0.2 volts allowing me to go almost 40% over stock with low temps.

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:15

James J said:
Negative scaling with the 3rd card besty?

Looks that way, just gonna run the fraps analyser, I will post the results in a bit. I reckon the 7970s need 1.4V for this game in Crossfire, performance is not great.

James J · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:33

Besty said:
Looks that way, just gonna run the fraps analyser, I will post the results in a bit. I reckon the 7970s need 1.4V for this game in Crossfire, performance is not great.

The game is still a stutter fest on my system even at the FPS I had. No where near 100% GPU usage either at any point during the benchmark -.-

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 20:48

here we go, spot the difference. 2 GPU on the left, 3 GPU on the right.

TAC4U · 31 Mar 2012 at 21:12

Besty said:
here we go, spot the difference. 2 GPU on the left, 3 GPU on the right.

An increase of minus 2fps? Impressive. :eek:

layte · 31 Mar 2012 at 22:04

nalla said:
hmm so looking at that, layte's 2 x 480's min is low but the max and average are better than besty's 2 x 7970's, impressive

I get a hit right at the start of the second section, happens every time, no matter what settings I use.

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 22:07

Its not all bad news, managed to get 100fps avg from a single card at 1440p using a barely credible 1330/1900/1.3V

3960k @ 4.7GHZ.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ccnps/

Besty · 31 Mar 2012 at 22:20

Eventhough I had no artifacts, I decided to ease off.

1 x 7970 - 1325/1850/1.3V

1080p

min:25
max:205
average:93

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/k33fh/