7970 vs 680 thread.

Redemption80 · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:10

lol show off, looks like someone got the Virgin Media upgrade.

Engine wise, anything based on Frostbite 2.0 and CryEngine3 should both push these cards well, when it comes to upcoming games by the looks of things Arma 3, Far Cry 3, and even Max Payne 3 should need a pretty high end GPU.

SubZero89 · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:17

lol I only live 30 sec away from the exchange as well

BaDBoY_uK · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:19

@Sub, that speed rocks! *off topic*

chipachap · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:33

Would you believe I only have 1% equivalent of your bandwidth :facepalm:

Gregster · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:34

OK I have done the 3Dmark11 bench and it bombed out on me on the cpu test after a couple of seconds and then again in exactly the same place. I dropped the clocks on the GPU and it done it again BSOD. I dropped the cpu to 4.4 and it ran fine getting me a score of 9981. I upped the clock to 206 and this got me over the 1000 score

If I went any higher on the clock it would not have it and the test would just end with "The display driver stopped responding and has recovered error" (I think a little more volts would allow it to do it though).

Still a 1342 clock is good

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:46

What was the GPU score? that's all I want to know when comparing cards in 3DM11 with different setups.

xsistor · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:50

What's your PSU, greg?

RavenXXX2 said:
What was the GPU score? that's all I want to know when comparing cards in 3DM11 with different setups.

And this too...

Gregster · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:51

RavenXXX2 said:
What was the GPU score? that's all I want to know when comparing cards in 3DM11 with different setups.

3DMark Score

P10015

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Graphics Score

11388

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Physics Score

7224

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Combined Score

7562

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GraphicsTest1

55.02 FPS

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GraphicsTest2

52.99 FPS

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GraphicsTest3

68.5 FPS

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GraphicsTest4

34.32 FPS

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PhysicsTest

22.94 FPS

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CombinedTest

35.17 FPS

xsistor said:
What's your PSU, greg?

Antec truepower 750.

Strange on the cpu because I have never had to drop it before but it was the only way to get it stable?

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 19:53

Graphics Score

11388

Man that is some score, nice.

Graphics Score 6807

That was my 480 at 880 core.

Gregster · 24 Mar 2012 at 20:13

RavenXXX2 said:
Man that is some score, nice.

Graphics Score 6807

That was my 480 at 880 core.

Thanks. What do you get Raven if you dont mind me asking?

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 20:20

Running 3DM11 on a GTX260 might prove impossible

just saving up some cash and then probably gonna jump on an 680 early April.

TAC4U · 24 Mar 2012 at 20:52

With my GTX680 I managed +188MHz core, +350MHz memory with power at 125% and fan speed on auto, with a slightly increased curve (not running it maxed out like many people) - that gave me P10814 in 3DMark11. Unfortunately it was unstable in Heaven, so I had to drop it down to 171/274. I've still got a lot more testing to do and I'm confident I should be able to increase that a bit more but I'm pretty happy. And the fan is dramatically quieter than the HD5970 I had before.

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 20:55

Anyone with 680 got crysis installed? shout up if you have.

Sin_Chase · 24 Mar 2012 at 20:56

My room is too warm at the moment to play with big overclocks. Fan keeps temps in order but it becomes audible with the ambience it has to deal with

TAC4U · 24 Mar 2012 at 21:29

RavenXXX2 said:
Anyone with 680 got crysis installed? shout up if you have.

Yeah, Crysis, Warhead and Crysis 2. Why?

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 21:37

Any chance you can run the crysis benchmark tool? with all very high settings, 4xAA and dX10, 3 loops. If you could run the default benchmark as well as the harbor bench that would be great.

Besty · 24 Mar 2012 at 21:41

TAC4U said:
Yeah, Crysis, Warhead and Crysis 2. Why?

Could do some bench fun in Crysis 1, Green vs. Red team if anyone is interested.

I have 1080p and 1440p displays.

Need a new thread though this one is the fail.

overcrocker · 24 Mar 2012 at 21:52

Sorry if my questions sound stupid. The last PC I built (Thanks to OCUK for supplying me with the goods

) was 7/8 years ago and was a 78N-E Deluxe mobo, 6800 GT GPU and AMD 3400+ CPU, 1 GB Corsair XMS.

I'm wondering if anyone in this thread can get a minimum of 60 fps at all times on the likes of Cysis 2 DX11 and BF3 at 1080p with v-sync enabled and every single graphics setting set to max?

What would it take to achieve this?

555BUK · 24 Mar 2012 at 21:53

gregster said:
OK I have done the 3Dmark11 bench and it bombed out on me on the cpu test after a couple of seconds and then again in exactly the same place. I dropped the clocks on the GPU and it done it again BSOD. I dropped the cpu to 4.4 and it ran fine getting me a score of 9981. I upped the clock to 206 and this got me over the 1000 score

If I went any higher on the clock it would not have it and the test would just end with "The display driver stopped responding and has recovered error" (I think a little more volts would allow it to do it though).

Still a 1342 clock is good

You score improves very little for +200 setting. Try +100 or +150 and you will probably get a higher score. My guess is that the card is throttling due to hitting the voltage ceiling.

RavenXXX2 · 24 Mar 2012 at 22:01

555BUK said:
You score improves very little for +200 setting. Try +100 or +150 and you will probably get a higher score. My guess is that the card is throttling due to hitting the voltage ceiling.

What was his clocks before boosting to +200, certainly wasn't default. His GPU score shows a massive boost from stock clocks.