13.10 Beta Driver Performance - 7950 Crossfire 925/1250 & 1125/1600

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:20

Specs

i7 2700k@ 4.8ghz
8Gb DDR3 2133Mhz
2x7950 @925/1250
Windows 8
13.10 Drivers
Frame pacing enabled
1440P

Benchmarking Procedure & Settings

FOV (where applicable) 82
Ultra/Extreme Preset used from in game options.

Battlefield 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5b3vK-TY
Bioshock - Used in game benchmark
Crysis 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjqhSAnAo
Dirt Showdown - Used in game benchmark
Farcry 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2gDhEMfyk
Hitman Absolution - Used in game benchmark
Metro 2033 - Used in game benchmark
Metro Last Light - Used in game benchmark
Tomb Raider - Used in game benchmark
Sleeping Dogs - Used in game benchmark
3DMark 11 - Firestrike
Unigine Valley - Extreme HD

7950 Crossfire - Stock

10860 with AMD Radeon HD 7950(2x) and Intel Core i7-2700K Processor
Graphics Score 13597
Physics Score 12256
Combined Score 4052

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1180973?

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:20

Specs

i7 2700k@ 4.8ghz
8Gb DDR3 2133Mhz
2x7950 @1125/1500
Windows 8
13.10 Drivers
Frame pacing enabled

Benchmarking Procedure & Settings

FOV (where applicable) 82
Ultra/Extreme Preset used from in game options.

Battlefield 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5b3vK-TY
Bioshock - Used in game benchmark
Crysis 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrjqhSAnAo
Dirt Showdown - Used in game benchmark
Farcry 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW2gDhEMfyk
Hitman Absolution - Used in game benchmark
Metro 2033 - Used in game benchmark
Metro Last Light - Used in game benchmark
Tomb Raider - Used in game benchmark
Sleeping Dogs - Used in game benchmark
3DMark 11 - Firestrike
Unigine Valley - Extreme HD

7950 Crossfire - Overclocked

12660 with AMD Radeon HD 7950(2x) and Intel Core i7-2700K Processor
Graphics Score 16376
Physics Score 12213
Combined Score 4784

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1181662?

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:21

These definitely seem the fastest, stable, frame pacing enabled drivers so far.

The metro games are horribly optimized. I appear to be rather heavily cpu bottlenecked in those titles.

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 16:28

shankly1985 said:
Not played Metro LL on this driver set yet, but on 13.8 beta1 game was super smooth for me.

I'm talking about the crappy benchmarks in the metro games. The game itself always ran fine for me as well. Still they could have at least sorted it out you'd think with the new game.

LtMatt · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:04

shankly1985 said:
O sorry fort you was talking about game itself.

Nay bother lad.

vonex said:
Nice work buddy... Just updated from 13.8b2

This is the best driver yet imo.

Would be interesting to see a website review it and see how much better the frame times are, specifically in the titles mentioned.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 09:00

Phixsator said:
any of you having issues with the second card running at full speed even when idle but only when crossfire is enabled?

Both cards clocking down as normal fine here, but i have ULPS disabled.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:02

Phixsator said:
I thought i had as well but apparently i didnt.. now that i do it clocks down just fine.. god darn ULPS!

Why do you think i always say to disable it?

Its a nice idea in principle, but for the sake of 10 extra watt usage you get more fps and smoother performance.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 12:24

Tomb Raider frame time has improved, i know for a fact as i can notice a difference in the benchmark. Not that it was bad before, but there was a little part near the start of the bench that had a tiny bit stutter. That's now gone completely.

LtMatt · 7 Sep 2013 at 17:18

Mr Krugga said:
What do you mean by "metro games are horribly optimised"? You seem to be getting 17% improvement with overclocking in both titles, which is pretty much on par with other games in your benchmarks round up.

If they were CPU-limited, you'd be getting little to no performance gain by overclocking the GPUs.

Gpu usage drops heavily during certain parts of the benchmarks.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 16:59

tommybhoy said:
The LT will be due a promotion soon with all this hard work.

Yes please.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 17:04

Besty said:
matt - is tomb raider bench quicker using these drivers than beta2?

Performance seems identical to 13.8 for me Besty. However the frame time variance is smoother than it was during the 13.8 official website reviews.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 17:07

Besty said:
thanks for that, I will install and marvel at the smoothness of Lara.

I may be gone for some time....

I for one live in hope that one day TressFX can perform full flowing animated nipple tassels on Lara.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:45

Negatory been playing a bit of sleeping dogs and hitman on steam as of late. What problem are you having?

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:48

teppic said:
Your mind's an unusual place

I turned off TressFX based on the game's benchmark (haven't even played it yet), thought it looked a bit naff.

Its a nice touch and it looks cool, but in reality it adds very little. I always use it though.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:50

teppic said:
Your mind?

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 21:02

Footyslayer said:
Failed to start game (app already running)

It may be a coincidence but since this driver a few games won't load.

Google is plastered with that error message.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 21:07

Footyslayer said:
Yeah I have had a look via google but nothing seems to fix it for me, hence me wondering if it could be driver related.

No worries

I've had that message once or twice before when starting sleeping dogs. It turned out it didnt like the afterburner and fraps overlay running at the same time. Exiting one or the other before starting the game fixed it for me. Probably wont help you but still.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 21:17

Footyslayer said:
Ah, you legend.

It was having RivaTuner running alongside afterburner.

Thanks once again

I'm not getting paid enough for this.

Happy to help.

LtMatt · 17 Sep 2013 at 13:56

LtMatt · 17 Sep 2013 at 14:52

Ah crap i meant to post that youtube video in the Battlefield 4 vram thread. Honestly!! I was not trying to bump my own benchmark thread even though everyone probably thinks i am. Grrrr.

As a sorry to everyone i will provide some crossfire scaling results i took earlier from four games with consistent in game benchmarks.

[email protected]
7950's @1125/1575
1440p

My memory clock is 25mhz lower as i had some memory error correction kicking in at 1600mhz.

Tomb Raider - Ultimate + TressFX
Sleeping Dogs Extreme
Hitman Ultra x4AA
Dirt Showdown Ultra+Global Lighting+x8AA

Tomb Raider 98.9% scaling

Single card

Dual card

Sleeping Dogs 99% scaling

Single card

Dual card

Hitman Absolution 94.8% scaling

Single card

Dual card

Dirt Showdown 94.4% scaling

Single card

Dual card