AMD Driver Performance - 12.10 WHQL Vs 13.3 Beta 3

[LtMatt]

AMD Driver Performance - 12.10 WHQL Vs 13.3 Beta 3 @1440p

Driver comparison 12.10 WHQL vs 13.3 Beta 3.

System

i7 2700k @5.0Ghz
16GB 2133 DDR3 9-10-10-21-2T
MSI 7970 OC @GHz Edition Speed 1050/1500 + 1250/1700
DGM 27" 1440p 2650x1440 IPS
Windows 8

Games+Benchmarks Tested

Battlefield 3
Dirt Showdown
Farcry 3
Hitman Absolution
Sleeping Dogs
Tomb Raider
Unigine 4.0
Unigine Valley

I will be adding more games+benchmark results to this thread in due course. Other AMD users please feel free to contribute your own AMD benchmarks to the thread.



Battlefield 3 - 12.10 WHQL




Battlefield 3 - 13.3 Beta 3





Dirt Showdown - 12.10 WHQL




Dirt Showdown - 13.3 Beta 3





Farcry 3 - 12.10 WHQL




Farcry 3 - 13.3 Beta 3





Hitman Absolution - 12.10 WHQL




Hitman Absolution - 13.3 Beta 3





Sleeping Dogs - 12.10 WHQL




Sleeping Dogs - 13.3 Beta 3





Tomb Raider - 12.10 WHQL




Tomb Raider - 13.3 Beta 3





Unigine 4.0 - 12.10 WHQL




Unigine 4.0 - 13.3 Beta 3





Valley - 12.10 WQHL




Valley - 13.3 Beta 3





Performance Improvement Percentage - Provided By Billy




Driver Download Links

13.3 Beta 3

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/AMD_Catalyst_13.3_Beta3.exe


To be continued...

 

[LtMatt]

Here i will post benchmarks of new games coming out on 13.3 Beta 3 or newer AMD drivers.


Bioshock Infinite

 

[LtMatt]

Well done Lt!



Fantastic performance improvements from not only oc'ing but from the AMD driver team too.

Iv'e got a few runs of some titles between 13.2beta7>13.3beta2@1080p.

If I get the chance, I shall add them later.

Thanks Tommy. Christ that took a long time. The Tomb Raider results are interesting, the last TR patch brought down performance for AMD as my initial results were much higher than that on 13.2 beta 7.

Nice work MrBenchMatt (formerly known as MrMSI7970OC)

Or Ivor Bigun as you were calling me last night.

 

[LtMatt]

Wait it seems that 13.3 is performing worse than 12.10??

 

[LtMatt]

Haha what the hell, I don't know how I was reading them before hahahahaha. Oh my I think I need a good night sleep

Apart from the odd result here and there 13.3 are definitely better, but 12.10 are still decent. Some of the minimums on 12.10 on dirt showdown were slightly better but different things happen in each race, even though i benched the same race 8 times. Yes that's right, each game/benchmark 8 times. To say it was a chore was an under statement.

 

[LtMatt]

Bloody hell. I admire your persistence. In my (in)famous 5760*1080 comparison benchs I did it 3 times and even that grated a lot.

Yes it was on my 4th play of operation sword breaker that i realised deciding to do stock and over clocked tests of two different drivers was probably going to be rather time consuming. I' don't mind adding more for 13.3 Beta 3 and newer drivers but no more going back.

 

[LtMatt]

Matt are the 13.3 any better than the 12.11 betas? They're basically the same thing right?

I would recommend any GCN user using 13.3 beta 3 personally. 12.11 are now old beta. If you insist on using 12.11 you may as well just use 13.1 WHQL which are the final version of 12.11. 13.3 Beta 3 has extra performance in for games like Crysis 3, Farcry 3 and Hitman that 12.11/13.1 won't have.

 

[LtMatt]

i only play bf3 though

I'd still upgrade performance has probably come on a bit since then. When i have some time i will add a comparion of 12.11 vs 13.3 beta 3 for bf3.

 

[LtMatt]

nice job bud, and nice one AMD, those are some v.good improvements

Thanks Nicola.

I can't even be bothered to make graphs for 1 benchmark most of the time so fair play on this Matt. You really should get back to playing BF3 though!

I'm trying to get back into it but the novelty for that game has worn off a bit.

Pretty good for 1440p.

I concur.

 

[LtMatt]

Yes he should!!!

Really enjoying our TDM server at the moment, come on Matt.

Can't stop playing black ops 2 zombies atm.

 

[LtMatt]

Nice work - all you need now is a second card for crossfire results

Thanks scotty, i did it all for you to make you miss your 7970's!

 

[LtMatt]

Your correct, I do miss them

So this should have a nice performance increase compared to 12.11?

It might not be as large an increase as 12.10 as 12.11 was the first big improvement driver but yes you should see improvement.

 

[LtMatt]

I'd be interested to see the results in tabular format with a % increase column too.
I was under the impression that the "Never Settle" drivers made a huge difference to performance, but these results don't seem to suggest the gains were that big in some games.

If someone wants to work out the percentages that would be great.

They were large in the games listed with performance improvements. (bf3, sleeping dogs to name just a couple but there were others that i didn't bench because i don't own those titles)

 

[LtMatt]

averaged across all settings

Great stuff Billy, many thanks i will add that to the OP if you don't mind.

 

[LtMatt]

Cool. BF3 and Hitman made some good gains, the others seem quite small considering the hype around the 12.11 betas.
That said I don't know what's typical for a driver release (AMD or Nvidia).

Battlefield 3, hitman and sleeping dogs were the only games listed for improvement in the 12.11 drivers that i benched so that's quite normal.

Farcry 3, Tomb Raider had not been released when 12.11 went beta, neither had valley. Unigine was already fairly well optimised as was Dirt Showdown. The other games which got improvements from 12.11 i don't own so cannot bench.

 

[LtMatt]

Have you moved up to 1440p now Rusty?

 

[LtMatt]

Undecided. I've got 7 days . Bought a Dell U2713HM.

What is apparent to my eye is drop to 60 Hz. More of a shock than I thought but I'll persevere.

Its a real mans res so i fully expect you to DSR and get back to 1080p 120hz.

You should make the most of it though get some 1440p benchmarks up.

 

[LtMatt]

I'm less of a man though, because i'm going back to 120+hz on Monday

@Matt, nice comparisons

Thanks.

I'd rather have a better image quality than a quicker response time though but that's just me i know some people see it the other way.

No shame in going back Tony, unless you feel shame?

 

[LtMatt]

We neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed 120Hz 1600P monitrs. Wake up manananafacutruruers.

Agreed i guess that's still a way off though.

Once you've experienced 1440p i could never go back to 1080p personally. Its just too good looking. 0xAA at its best.

 

[LtMatt]

I'll still have the screen, just wont be using it
The image quality is nice, a lot better than any of my other screens but a faster screen is more beneficial for the games i mainly play (FPS crap)

I mainly play fps myself. 120hz might make me an even better player than i already am (yeah, what of it? ) but there's no way i could drop down to 1080p would be wasting my 7970 otherwise (unless i was 120hz). That was the original reason i upgraded in the first place.