That is typical for the heaven benchmark. It's a GPU test and places very little work on the CPU. Hence the reason that your GPUs should be at or close to 100% load.
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heaven benchmark gtx 480 sli
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That is typical for the heaven benchmark. It's a GPU test and places very little work on the CPU. Hence the reason that your GPUs should be at or close to 100% load.
Clearly.
But CPU "bottlenecking" changes game to game, and even game-scene to game-scene. Certainly in GPU-stress tests like heaven benchmark, or furmark, the CPU will not be bottlenecking the system. But if you play an older game (eg half life 2), then the limiting factor will be the CPU. This is still not neccesarily a bad thing though, as CPU limitation with a fast CPU usually means you are already getting very good framerates, and also your GPUs will not be putting out quite so much heat.
I know this thread is for sli but couldn't find 1 for crossfire, just got a second 5870 today & the heaven benchmark was the first thing I tried, is this a good result? left settings at default.
System
Enermax galaxy 1kw
Gigabyte ep45-dq6
q9650 @ 3.8ghz
8gb ddr2 @ 900mhz 5,5,5,18
2 hd5870 in crossfire
Auzentech prelude x-fi
System
Enermax galaxy 1kw
Gigabyte ep45-dq6
q9650 @ 3.8ghz
8gb ddr2 @ 900mhz 5,5,5,18
2 hd5870 in crossfire
Auzentech prelude x-fi
ok think i have a satisfactory heaven benchmark now, nvidia control panel had physx set to gpu 1, so i set to cpu as there is no off stting, also there was a setting multi display performance mode, so i put it into single display performance mode, now my benchmark as below
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 68.9
Scores: 1736
Min FPS: 42.3
Max FPS: 127.8
Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU flags: 3780MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6052 1536Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 2560x1600 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 68.9
Scores: 1736
Min FPS: 42.3
Max FPS: 127.8
Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU flags: 3780MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6052 1536Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 2560x1600 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010
waynio well not sure if its good or not as i too have not seen a crossfire one either, but does seem a little low being as you are running at 1920 x 1200, i can only go off my setup which has scored higher at a much higher res, this is my result at your res.
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 107.0
Scores: 2696
Min FPS: 37.4
Max FPS: 193.3
Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU flags: 3780MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6052 1536Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1200 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010
Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.1
FPS: 107.0
Scores: 2696
Min FPS: 37.4
Max FPS: 193.3
Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release May 21 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz
CPU flags: 3780MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 8.17.12.6052 1536Mb
Settings
Render: direct3d11
Mode: 1920x1200 fullscreen
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 4x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Replication: disabled
Tessellation: normal
Unigine Corp. © 2005-2010