Gone from 5770 to 460 and things seem poorer

[iTek]

Ok so I got rid of my HD5770 and purchased a Palit 460 768mb simply because I wanted something new...

Having installed the card and played my games I found if anything it was no better, so with that in mind I run Cinebench and found that my last card (5770) scored 65 fps in the test and this one scores 47 fps.

I removed the full ATi driver suite prior to installing my new card and downloaded the latest nvidia drivers (I did not use the ones supplied on the disc)

After some sort of advice, so far I have not really changed any of the nvidia settings, its set to performance on the slider bar, using this for reference I assumed I would see a increase in gaming by hopping over to the nVidia card...

Appreciate any assistance, specs are below of my rig and I don't know if Cinebench is a good tool to be using its just the only one I had and the only one I knew I could truly compare to my HD 5770.

Thanks

 

[iTek]

I ran the tool and it did indeed find some ati files however the scores in Cinebench are still the same.

 

[iTek]

Cinebench is a better CPU benchmark than GPU .

Try some games. Benchmarks are not really the best for 'benchmarking' games believe it or not as what may be great in 3DMark will not show the same performance in 'real world' games.

To be honest now i've tinkered with some of the settings in the Nvidia control panel the games seem loads better just strange why it scores significantly lower to my previous HD5770.

 

[iTek]

I simply used the AnandTech gpu comparison and it suggested the 460 768mb was a better card then the 5770/5830 which was going to be my next upgrade path...

I also noted that it was only marginally slower then a 1gb model? <10%?

 

[iTek]

And Cinebench is not for testing GPU performance...

Thanks, I wont bother digging deeper because the games are much working better with very little stutters at the resolutions i'm playing at anyways (1650x1050) but intrigued as to why this card scores lower on Cinebench, it wont be down to fact its got less onboard memory?

 

[iTek]

Perhaps Cinebench was a poor tool to use to compare the card maybe its because the 460 is new? but for sure it does seem much better in games now so i'm beginning to feel a lot happier, I know benchmarks are not everything but it was just something I immediately did since I'm no GPU Guru.

So thanks for the input, what do people use to benchmark GPU's with, is it still the Futuremark products?

 

[iTek]

try the heaven benchmark http://unigine.com/products/heaven/

dont think anyone uses the futuremark benchmarks much anymore tbh they have a new one coming out soonish thats dx11 though i think.

That looks a good tool, I have indeed downloaded the first one and ran some benchies but is there anyway to compare them with similar spec machines.

 

[iTek]

Forget the benchmarks for measuring.

Use the FRAPS software utility or in game console commands/options to see what you are getting in game wise for FPS. Without testing your games you won't know.

You said it is 'no better' but without numbers from the games you play you won't know. Do you know what you were getting before?

Was getting 60 on MW2 using 5770 (Is that max?)

 

[iTek]

Brilliant thats got me at 90/91 which is max?

 

[iTek]

Can you try a game you know struggled before, so then if it runs better you know the card is doing it's job

I did not struggle with running it before but I have just run L4D2 using fraps and get over 220 fps but this fluctuates quite abit.

 

[iTek]

Ok, just been running some benchmarks and although its very difficult to find someone with a similar setup I think my results are in keeping with others.

Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 41.6
Scores: 1048
Min FPS: 18.6
Max FPS: 94.3

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

Anyone care to add anything, is it low, high or about right for a 768mb GTX460, I did do a a test a 1280x1024 to compare it with a guy on the forums who got 1gb model and it scored over 200 more points...

 

[iTek]

Nice one, so they are in keeping...

 

[iTek]

You guys

You know what!!.. I will start hammering the servers shortly, appreciate all the help and overall this is a bang tidy card for what I/we paid for it!

 

[iTek]

It will improve with driver releases, I find it bizarre that you switched to that card though.

I thought i'd already covered that earlier

Basically I have swapped (straight) my HD5770 for a GTX460 a faster card.

 

[iTek]

LOL yes I understand that I just don't see why it's worth the effort and cost, the difference is probably minimal.

Effort of what? removing a graphics card and replacing it with another and installing new drivers?

Like mentioned I sold my old ATi card for what my new nVidia card cost... free upgrade.