Heaven 2.5 is out

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http://www.techpowerup.com/141449/U...chmarking-Suite-New-Professional-Edition.html

Unigine released the latest version of Unigine Heaven, one of the industry's first DirectX 11 compliant 3D graphics benchmark applications. Version 2.5 of the software expands its feature set a little, the product is also branched into two variants: a free "basic edition" that gives most of the product's functionality to consumers, overclockers, and gamers; and a paid "professional edition", that gives data-logging and specific-functionality to aid professionals such as analysts, and reviewers, priced at US $495. The professional variant is also backed by technical support.

As far as new features go, Heaven 2.5 introduced support for new DirectX 11 features such as indirect occlusion (SSDO) to simulate real-time global illumination, improved hardware support, improved quality of ambient occlusion, and a number of stability improvements that help maintain long sessions of benchmarking. It also added a new help file, and a snappier installer. The professional edition includes command line automation support, data-logging in CSV format, stress-testing, a commercial use license, and technical support.

 

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I decided to test the new AMD Optimised Tesselation settings in CCC 11.2.

I tried with 'AMD Optimised' and 'Application Settings'

I ran the bench at default settings, 1680x1050 full screen (so 4xAF, no AA, normal tess etc).

Interestingly it made precious little difference, I guess it would on extreme tesselation levels.

With Application Setting I scored 1008

With AMD Optimised I scored 1011

Also I note it seems there is some precaching going on now and my first run scored almost as highly as the second runs above (1002 vs 1008 for example).


I would post some screenies but my internet is largely chagged at the moment (BE)