GTX 680 SLI Owners - How does this Unigine Benchmark Score look?

Random Guy · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:37

FPS: 101.5

Scores: 2557

Min FPS: 12.0

Max FPS: 197.9

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
CPU flags: 3603MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 9.18.13.697 2048Mb

Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode:1920x1080 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: normal

I would greatly appreciate it if someone with a similar setup could comment. Trawling lots of threads and benches on the Internet and it doesn't seem to be clarifying things!

setter · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:40

Post your score in the heaven bench thread here using the settings on the first page.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18386056

gregster will add you to the list when he sees your entry.

chaparral · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:42

Deleted............as just noticed you were at 1920x1080

Kaapstad · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:48

As setter said you really need to post this in the Heaven thread.

As to your score, its very low.

Try ocing your CPU to 3.8 or 4.0ghz (the higher the better) to stop it bottlenecking your cards.

Then post the results in the heaven thread and compare.

Geeman1979 · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:50

setter said:
Post your score in the heaven bench thread here using the settings on the first page.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18386056

gregster will add you to the list when he sees your entry.

gregster deals with the 3D Mark 11 thread. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18428457

Not sure who deals with the Heaven benchmark threads.

setter · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:54

Your correct geeman, (me having a blonde moment lol). dlkknight manages the heaven thread and its still active and updated regularly.

Tonester0011 · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:54

Dlknight does

4148 - NVIDIA GTX680 x 2 - OptimaLnrg
4118 - AMD 7970 x 2 - BodgeITandRun
4026 - NVIDIA GTX680 x 2 - gregster
4018 - AMD 7970 x 2 - stephenb
4017 - AMD 7970 x 2 - Eluder
3988 - AMD 7950 x 2 - Alz_D
3921 - NVIDIA GTX680 x 2 - FMTopfan
3807 - NVIDIA GTX680 x 2 - PCZ
3769 - AMD 7970 x 2 - zuludawn
3657 - NVIDIA GTX670 x 2 - CivilDrone
3645 - AMD 6990 & 6970 - COYS
3559 - NVIDIA GTX680 x 2 - Nuwidol

Very low score though.

Geeman1979 · 25 Jan 2013 at 20:56

setter said:
Your correct geeman, (me having a blonde moment lol). dlkknight manages the heaven thread and its still active and updated regularly.

Yeah just had a look.

Random Guy · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:16

Thanks for the replies all - will post in the relevant thread

Gregster · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:16

Very low, I can almost reach that score with one 680.

weehamish · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:21

So you think its his CPU?

Tonester0011 · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:25

Doubt it, Heaven even with a terrible CPU is still capable of pushing decent SLI/CF scores.

Are you sure you're using the correct settings and no super extreme turn this baby up to 11 settings?

setter · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:26

If stock speed on the i7 920, it will indeed be a bottlekneck. I found mine at stock would bottlekneck gtx 470's in sli.

Gregster · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:31

No need to change threads OP. If I can help at all, I will

Tonester0011 · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:40

This might be the score for an idea on how your system should preform.

http://imageshack.us/f/85/00001xy.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/f/818/heavenf.jpg/

i7 920 @4Ghz
2x 680s @1067/1702

3559 score.

Gregster · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:43

I will now run Heaven with all stock. I will put kettle on

macca672 · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:46

just to check and it may be obvious but....

you do have SLI enabled in the nvidia control panel yeah? mine disables when ever I install new drivers and I forget to turn it back on some times

Gregster · 25 Jan 2013 at 21:53

My stock clocks are 1202Mhz, so if your CPU is also at stock (like mine is, this is why your score was low. Get a decent overclock on your CPU and you will see the difference big time. Deffo CPU bottlenecked.

Kaapstad · 25 Jan 2013 at 22:17

Its definetly his CPU even @4.0ghz there is a bottleneck but nothing like it would be @2.66ghz.

With my nvidia cards I get a 15% increase in frames going from 4.0ghz to 4.9ghz on the CPU.

Random Guy · 26 Jan 2013 at 11:13

Thanks for all the helpful replies. To address a few points:

- My CPU is already clocked to 3.6 GHz

- SLI is definitely enabled on the NCP. The Hardware is hooked up correctly with an SLI Bridge and using MSI Afterburner, I can see that both GPUs are loading up to 99%

- Using a single card the scores I am getting are as follows:

FPS: 72.2
Scores: 1819
Min FPS: 26.6
Max FPS: 170.0

So there is some degree of scaling when enabling SLI. For the life of me I don't know wtf is wrong with my setup. I know that a 5 GHz CPU will obviously increase my performance, but no way that this is a normal score for a 680 SLI setup!

I know that there are a number of similar problems from looking at a number of other forums where the 680 SLI scores are simply horrendous. Any suggestions?