AMD Driver Performance - 12.10 WHQL Vs 13.3 Beta 3

arc@css · 22 Mar 2013 at 19:11

Pretty good for 1440p.

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 19:36

Nickolp1974 said:
nice job bud, and nice one AMD, those are some v.good improvements

Thanks Nicola.

Suarez7 said:
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.

arc@css said:
Pretty good for 1440p.

I concur.

~Mike~ · 22 Mar 2013 at 20:18

Suarez7 said:
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!

Yes he should!!!

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

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 20:27

Mike306 said:
Yes he should!!!

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

Can't stop playing black ops 2 zombies atm.

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 20:44

whyscotty said:
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!

whyscotty · 22 Mar 2013 at 20:45

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

Your correct, I do miss them

Loxa · 22 Mar 2013 at 20:48

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

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 21:01

whyscotty said:
Your correct, I do miss them

Thrust4Money said:
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.

GoogalyMoogaly · 22 Mar 2013 at 21:41

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.

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 21:52

GoogalyMoogaly said:
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)

Randomface74 · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:31

averaged across all settings

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:33

billysielu said:
averaged across all settings

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

GoogalyMoogaly · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:41

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).

LtMatt · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:45

GoogalyMoogaly said:
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.

Loxa · 22 Mar 2013 at 23:28

Would appreciate some feedback from people switching from 12.11 / 13.3 beta, thanks

Rusty0611 · 23 Mar 2013 at 13:10

2*7950 on Tomb Raider - 2560*1440

Ultimate Preset + 2x SSAA + TressFX

LtMatt · 23 Mar 2013 at 13:55

Have you moved up to 1440p now Rusty?

Rusty0611 · 23 Mar 2013 at 14:01

LtMatt said:
Have you moved up to 1440p now Rusty?

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.

LtMatt · 23 Mar 2013 at 14:08

Rusty0611 said:
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.

Tonester0011 · 23 Mar 2013 at 14:09

Rusty0611 said:
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.

Takes a lot longer than i thought getting used to 60hz again, i've played more games (in terms of hours) in the last few days than in the last few months, and i'm only now starting to get used to it.

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

@Matt, nice comparisons