Today I downloaded and ran their version of the Heaven benchmark (extreme preset) on my GTX 690s @stock. The fps were about 200, from past experience with the Heaven bench if you are getting those sort of fps you are getting close to a CPU bottleneck. I know if I overclocked my CPU and GPUs I would have done a bit better but I would still be looking at a CPU bottleneck.
My point is some of the benches HWBOT use are like this (older versions of benches with undemanding settings) and even though they were once intended to test the GPUs they have now become CPU benches as the GPU hardware has become way too powerful running old bench software with lower settings.
It would be nice to see HWBOT using higher settings like 1440p or 1600p as well to really test modern multi GPU setups. This would at least turn the GPU benchmarks back into a test for the GPUs, not a test for who can run their CPU the highest on LN2.
Does anyone else think HWBOT is past it's sell by date?
My point is some of the benches HWBOT use are like this (older versions of benches with undemanding settings) and even though they were once intended to test the GPUs they have now become CPU benches as the GPU hardware has become way too powerful running old bench software with lower settings.
It would be nice to see HWBOT using higher settings like 1440p or 1600p as well to really test modern multi GPU setups. This would at least turn the GPU benchmarks back into a test for the GPUs, not a test for who can run their CPU the highest on LN2.
Does anyone else think HWBOT is past it's sell by date?
