Official 3D Mark 11 scores

Kaapstad · 21 Sep 2012 at 10:18

Rusty0611 said:
Yeah. The i5 2500k is a good compromise but if you're considering shelling out for two top end graphics card in the future you should also consider an i7 as well as the difference in price is not really that much considering.

*makes note to self who learned the hard way*

Its nice to know hyperthreading does something after all.

It also explains why in an earlier post on this thread I got the same graphics score (well within 1 point) running an i7 980 @ 3.7 and then 4.44ghz

Rusty0611 · 21 Sep 2012 at 10:24

Kaapstad said:
Its nice to know hyperthreading does something after all.

It also explains why in an earlier post on this thread I got the same graphics score (well within 1 point) running an i7 980 @ 3.7 and then 4.44ghz

I really wish I kept some data of FPS from my i5 compared to my i7 to see the difference actually quantified

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I have to admit - I didn't notice anything but people keep assuring me that it makes a large difference in BF3 MP and I'm not going argue against them

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And I wasn't looking for it. Performance wasn't exactly poor on the i5 2500k.

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 10:28

pgi947 said:
I did hear about the possible bottleneck from the 2500k chips with multi cards. What motherboard are you going to pair the chip with?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-496-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174

This MOBO. Read some reviews and although it isn't the best for overclocking, it is still up there.

Rusty0611 said:
Yeah the bottleneck is definitely there. Usage in BF3 averaging low to mid 80's for me whereas with my Ivy chip it averages mid to high 90's. That's an unscientific observation though - didn't take any data.

Max 80% on both 680's or sometimes 85% but I am missing out and if I overclock on them, they just decrease. I did some research into Haswell and they are predicting a ~10% increase on Ivy so the 3930K will see me well for a while. It seems Haswell has less power usage so more inclined to benefit Laptops/Tablets.

Edit:

My findings were in MP.

pgi947 · 21 Sep 2012 at 10:50

The majority of asus boards on x79 are some of the best for overclocking, swiftly followed by the high end msi and giga boards. Get watercooling next, the 3930k deserves it

And as you said, haswell is geared towards the igpu side of things, I wouldn't expect to see it spanking the hex core I7's. IB-E looks an interesting one however, released after haswell with rumors circulating of 8 physical cores and keeping the 130w tdp.

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 11:08

pgi947 said:
The majority of asus boards on x79 are some of the best for overclocking, swiftly followed by the high end msi and giga boards. Get watercooling next, the 3930k deserves it

And as you said, haswell is geared towards the igpu side of things, I wouldn't expect to see it spanking the hex core I7's. IB-E looks an interesting one however, released after haswell with rumors circulating of 8 physical cores and keeping the 130w tdp.

I will be watercooling and hopefully doing both my GPU's also. Not sure when on the GPU's but as soon as I can get a Lightning block, it will be done. As for Haswell, I found myself reading what I wanted to read if I am honest

pgi947 · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:52

Aquacomputer already have a 680 lightning block available I think, interested to see what it can do under water.

Kaapstad · 21 Sep 2012 at 12:57

gregster said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-496-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=2174

This MOBO. Read some reviews and although it isn't the best for overclocking, it is still up there.

Max 80% on both 680's or sometimes 85% but I am missing out and if I overclock on them, they just decrease. I did some research into Haswell and they are predicting a ~10% increase on Ivy so the 3930K will see me well for a while. It seems Haswell has less power usage so more inclined to benefit Laptops/Tablets.

Edit:

My findings were in MP.

I think there is something in hyperthreading and more cores. The pic in the link below I have shown before elsewhere but if you look at GPU usage its interesting. It shows my setup running BF3 single player the important bit is the CPU is only clocked @4.0

If I look at CPU usage in task manager its not even getting close to maxing out.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/membf3.jpg/

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:36

Is this a good score?

GPU is XFX R7850 2gb Core Edition.

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 13:59

^^ it is but you are in the wrong thread

Kaapstad said:
I think there is something in hyperthreading and more cores. The pic in the link below I have shown before elsewhere but if you look at GPU usage its interesting. It shows my setup running BF3 single player the important bit is the CPU is only clocked @4.0

If I look at CPU usage in task manager its not even getting close to maxing out.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/membf3.jpg/

I have read that more than 4 cores isn't essential in games but maybe recent games are utilising >4 better. What made my mind up was FSX runs bad on my 2500K and regardless of 2 680's it is still poor so I am hoping this jump will help.

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:04

gregster said:
^^ it is but you are in the wrong thread

I have read that more than 4 cores isn't essential in games but maybe recent games are utilising >4 better. What made my mind up was FSX runs bad on my 2500K and regardless of 2 680's it is still poor so I am hoping this jump will help.

Thanks, Opps sorry

Spenty · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:07

gregster said:
^^ it is but you are in the wrong thread

It isn't that good of a score considering the settings he's used in the benchmark.

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:13

Spenty said:
It isn't that good of a score considering the settings he's used in the benchmark.

I just see it was Heaven, I didn't look at settings

RetrogamerX said:
Thanks, Opps sorry

No probs

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:15

What are the best setting then?

My card isn't the best oc'er, but it's a good score for this card.

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:16

API = DirectX 11
Tessellation = Normal
Shaders = High
Anisotropy = 4x
Stereo 3D = disabled
Multi monitor = disabled
Anti-aliasing = 4x

Full screen = enabled (yes)
Resolution = 1680x1050 or 1920x1080

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:29

gregster said:
API = DirectX 11
Tessellation = Normal
Shaders = High
Anisotropy = 4x
Stereo 3D = disabled
Multi monitor = disabled
Anti-aliasing = 4x

Full screen = enabled (yes)
Resolution = 1680x1050 or 1920x1080

AA & TESSEL are the only ones I need to add. Will re-take test. thanks

wazza300 · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:33

isnt bf3 a multithreaded game like crysis? ifso you'll see an increase with a 2600k/3770k compared to just four physical cores

Gregster · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:49

wazza300 said:
isnt bf3 a multithreaded game like crysis? ifso you'll see an increase with a 2600k/3770k compared to just four physical cores

It is Muti Threaded but I have no clue about using more than 4 cores. I do know I am bottlenecked with my I5 @ 4.6 but a 3930K should sort that out.

wazza300 · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:52

if its multithreaded then yes your i5 is limited,running cinebench cpu test will show you how much multithreaded cpu's score higher

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:53

Powered by Unigine Engine

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:
52.3
Scores:
1317
Min FPS:
36.5
Max FPS:
108.4
Hardware

Binary:
Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
CPU flags:
3510MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model:
AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series 8.982.0.0 2048Mb
Settings

Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1920x1080 4xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
4x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Tessellation:
normal

RetrogamerX · 21 Sep 2012 at 14:54

Not as good with aa on, but still better then I thought it would be. I'll get a new GPU next year anyways.

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