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AMD "Never Settle" 12.11 Driver - benchmarks

BS Dave said:
Is that with the Peter on as well? Bummer. I run my reference at 1100/1575 on stock just so I don't have to muck around with extra cooling and AB. It'll do 1200/1650 but the fan is so loud and I can't be bothered to spent the extra £50 plus for that extra 100Hz. My chip is very similar to matt's Voltage wise though so I might see if I can get a little more out of it at stock, maybe with the unlocked Asus bios...
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Yeah, Peter's doing a good job but I get the feeling he'd like a bit more of a workout :)
I needed better cooling at those clocks anyway, so I don't regret the purchase at all.

Really should've saved money and taken my chances with a reference card in hindsight, but then the whole Alpenfohn extravaganza wasn't planned back then and I was coming from a noisy ref 5870 :/

It's not like there's any missed performance or anything though, it's just the satisfaction of hitting the magic number y'know :D

Menty said:
MSI 7950 TF2 V2?

I'm able to get 1200 core on my TF2 (version 1) but have to raise the volts slightly above 1.2 which I don't want to run at 24/7.

Anyway these drivers are getting 4 fps more in Heaven compared to 12.8.
Not loads but free all the same :D
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Sapphire 7950 OC 950mhz Ed. I have increasingly been thinking that the TF3 is the safer bet, but too late now.
No biggie, but it does suck a little if you're into tweaking the hell out of your rig :D
 
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If that 50 is sitting at stock gregster then they don't know what their missing.

Couple of good titles in the bundle offer that would suit me nicely, got a good mind to get another one and go CrossFire again which would cost£170, hmm...:eek:

The chip lottery wouldn't come into play@1080p then, but it's complete overkill.

@Uncle Petey,

the sting cost £72, but I had probably the fastest 6950>70's CrossFired on air in here that put 6970's to bed without breaking a sweat, so I'm content I suppose, better luck next time.
 
Just had a couple of hour session of BF3 ultra without MSAA on my HIS 7850 at 1200/5200 and a 3570k at stock with vsync on (playing through HDTV) and I only saw it drop into the 50's less than 5 times on a 64 man Caspian Border map.

Downside is I use my PC as an HTPC as well and the text in XBMC is completely borked in this driver. Thread on the OCUK forums about it and seems to affect everyone using the 12.11's. Pity considering the performance boost :(
 
Uncle Petey said:
That must sting a little.

I went out of my way to get this specific card with it's ref 7970 pcb/8+6pin blahblah thinking it'd be almost guaranteed 1200 or so, but nope. Baby don't dig a lot of voltage, so we're staying at 1150/1425 as the memory's a stubborn sod too.

Still, can't complain too much I guess.
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Give the memory some time, my memory would not go over 1350Mhz for a while. reading around it seemed a few others had the same problem.

They ran it round Heaven for a few hours or overnight and *bingo* the Memory breached the wall.
Others like me it got fine after a while on its own.

After endless benching and gaming my memory is 100% stable now at 1500Mhz.

It seems some IC's need a little working before they settle in.
 
You may well have a good point there and I'm glad you said it because I thought I was imagining things :D
I have noticed a little more flexibility with stable clocks lately, so maybe I'll give it a good long burn and keep praying to the lords of epeen.
 
Richeh said:
Just had a couple of hour session of BF3 ultra without MSAA on my HIS 7850 at 1200/5200 and a 3570k at stock with vsync on (playing through HDTV) and I only saw it drop into the 50's less than 5 times on a 64 man Caspian Border map.

Downside is I use my PC as an HTPC as well and the text in XBMC is completely borked in this driver. Thread on the OCUK forums about it and seems to affect everyone using the 12.11's. Pity considering the performance boost :(
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Beta driver for you. Make sure you report to AMD any bugs, they have started to listen what people have to say now. There is a few things that are borked me.
 
Damn I really should give up working out forum posts this has been edited out sorry.
 
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Ooops just noticed I typed TF2 (not TF3).

Been talking about Team Fortress 2 on our clan forum so I blame that :p
 
kissenger said:
Holy crap!

65 minimum in BF3! Is that performance typical? Do you get worse benches on other maps?
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I don't know, lower id imagine. I'm still experimenting with settings and it was only a 20 minute run. Armoured kill maps will be the real test. Got the man flu atm, but results will follow in good time.
 
borley said:
What do you mean you underclock the core i thought no 7970 has a core at that speed stock;)
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Hehe yes, but i typically run the core at 1200 minimum and up to 1225. That's no longer needed, its just wasted overkill.

tommybhoy said:
From his usual max oc on the core, matts going for raw bandwith with higher clocks on the memory to improve mins using Max MSAA(I think).
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This. The core no longer needs work, but gains on averages and minimums to be had on the memory when using x4 aa, if you dont use aa, dont worry about the memory as much.

The good thing is, at least on my card, overclocking and adding voltage to the memory doesnt seem to make the card, or the vrms any hotter at all. Adding more volts to the core, and overclocking the core does though.
 
These drivers have increased performance om frostbite 2.0 games, have a look at these new Medal of Honor: Warfighter benches.

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When all cards are overclocked you can imagine a decent performance advantage for team red on this game.

Great to see my 7950 matching a 670, should see me in good stead when I apply my 50% overclock :cool:

Also looks like one of the first games to show a significant difference between the 680 and 670.

Great scaling on the 690 too :eek:
 
BS Dave said:
So what volts are you running on the memory then Matt?
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I can run up to 1719 before i need to increase memory voltage. That = 330gb of memory bandwidth.

At 1823 that = 350Gb of bandwidth. I need 1.649 memory volts (stock 1.6) to run that, however it makes no difference to my temps which baffles me but hey who am i to complain.

I use gpu-z to check the pixel fill rate, texture fill rate and memory bandwidth.

I like to see precise numbers, like this below 37 Gpixel's, 148 Gtexels, 350gb memory bandwidth etc. That's why i use seemingly odd clock numbers like 1156 for the core and 1823 for the memory.

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With these drivers i believe GPU core is not really important anymore, 1000 core is probably more than enough but you may as well use ghz edition speeds of 1050 core and call it a gg.
 
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Reference 7xxx users who dont have the idle clock bug. Do you use overclocking software like trixxx or afterburner??
 
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