670... first thoughts

[s0ck]

Not impressed.

I've upgraded from a 280. I play @ 1680/120Hz.

L4D2 = I seem to have less FPS if anything. At best, it's around the same. I'm occasionally dipping into the 50s. WTF. It used to be around 120 more or less solid.

World of tanks. 45fps with everything turned on. 50-150 with most things turned off. There is probably an increase of 10fps here 'across the board'.

Quakelive is unaffected, as you'd expect for a 20~ year old game.

CPU is an i3-530 @ 3.3GHz.

Was I expecting too much? Driver issue (301.42)? £350 down and I feel like this was a pointless upgrade.

 

[s0ck]

That would be a shame. Not sure I can justify an entire rig upgrade ;/

Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:	
69.5
Scores:	
1750
Min FPS:	
19.6
Max FPS:	
134.3
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) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz
CPU flags:	
3520MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:	
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 8.17.13.142 2048Mb
Settings

Render:	
direct3d11
Mode:	
1680x1050 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders:	
high
Textures:	
high
Filter:	
trilinear
Anisotropy:	
4x
Occlusion:	
enabled
Refraction:	
enabled
Volumetric:	
enabled
Tessellation:	
normal

 

[s0ck]

Can you overclock it further?

It will do 3.6 prime stable but silence is golden

 

[s0ck]

Even if he is CPU limited, he shouldn't be showing lower frame rates. The 670 should urinate All over L4D2. Try different drivers, the heaven bench looks OK though

Which ones?

 

[s0ck]

Really don't know why he spent £350 on a GPU to play qualkelive and L4D2 at 1680 Res

Maybe he should check if he has had a decent FPS increase in solitaire too

Thanks for your contribution

 

[s0ck]

So many caveats. For once I had this glimmer of hope that things would be different.

This card should just own a 280 in everything, sideways.

One thing I will say for it, it truly is silent.

 

[s0ck]

I'm going to make the wild assumption many of you newly registered folk are quite young.

Most of you will not remember the days of going from a Voodoo2 to a GeForce 1. Even on the same processor (Celeron 300 / Pentium II), the performance difference was STAGGERING. This was true innovation.

'Play modern games' or 'get an i7 and overclock it to 5.5GHz' is missing the point somewhat.

 

[s0ck]

I'm just ranting, ignore me

World of Tanks is single threaded I believe, hugely processor dependant. I just thought the 670 would bridge the gap more than it did, ya know.

*trots off to look at i7 prices*