****OFFICIAL AMD 6000 series overclocking and benchmark results thread****

[RaV]

To enable more slider movement go to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner (for my win7 64bit installation at least) and open MSIAfterburner.CFG in text edit. Third from the bottom is EnableUnofficialOverclocking. Set it to 1 and restart Afterburner.

From what Ive heard, overclocking the Core will be of more benefit than the memory. So I would lower the memory clock a little. For me I could get higher core clocks without raising voltage, by not having the memory that high.

E.g.
900 Core, 1076 mem works on stock voltage (1149)
974 Core, 1031-1076 mem is on 1206

And there is no benefit to having 4xAA as well as MLAA. I'd only use it if he needs AA but is unable to use 2xAA because of performance hits.

 

[Marine-RX179]

To enable more slider movement go to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner (for my win7 64bit installation at least) and open MSIAfterburner.CFG in text edit. Third from the bottom is EnableUnofficialOverclocking. Set it to 1 and restart Afterburner.

From what Ive heard, overclocking the Core will be of more benefit than the memory. So I would lower the memory clock a little. For me I could get higher core clocks without raising voltage, by not having the memory that high.

E.g.
900 Core, 1076 mem works on stock voltage (1149)
974 Core, 1031-1076 mem is on 1206

And there is no benefit to having 4xAA as well as MLAA. I'd only use it if he needs AA but is unable to use 2xAA because of performance hits.

Thanks for the input.

Regarding the MLAA, what I meant is I don't want to use it. But I read that it is enabled by default with the driver/control center, so I thought I might need to disable it, since I would be using 4xAA anyway. Just want to confirm if it is the case.

 

[RaV]

Just open the ATI control panel from the desktop, and under 3D in the AA or All tab, just see if morphological filtering is ticked or not.

 

[Abitar]

Does this look about right for 6850 Crossfire ?

Core clocked to 850, memory left at 1000

Unigine
Heaven Benchmark v2.0
FPS: 56.8
Scores: 1431
Min FPS: 21.6
Max FPS: 132.8

Hardware
Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1500 Release Mar 7 2010
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7600) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU flags: 3205MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 HTT
GPU model: Radeon HD 6800 Series 8.782.1.0 CrossFireX 1024Mb

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

 

[RaV]

Ya that looks about right. Im getting

FPS: 34.1
Scores: 858

at 1680x1050 and using 10.10e

What speed is your Q6600 at? And Im running Heaven Benchmark v2.1, though ive no idea what or if there are any differences between that and your v2.0.

 

[Abitar]

Ya that looks about right. Im getting

FPS: 34.1
Scores: 858

at 1680x1050 and using 10.10e

What speed is your Q6600 at? And Im running Heaven Benchmark v2.1, though ive no idea what or if there are any differences between that and your v2.0.

Its running at 3.2 ghz at the moment. Can go to 3.6 but it doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference whilst playing game.

 

[^Andy^]

Ok here we go...

Firstly stock 6870 at 1080p dx11 everything else at default..

Now as above but with gpu set to 980 and mem set to 1200

and finally as above but with gpu at 1000 and mem at 1200

The last run needed the fan set manually as the auto profile didn't ramp it up fast enough to prevent it glitching otherwise.

And here we are with crossfired 6870's using the latest non beta 11.1 drivers