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**The OcUK Benchmarks thread!**

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So, we've all grown a little tired of out-dated and biased benchmarks which has slowly evolved into this thread.

Owners of all cards welcome and it should give us all a legitimate thread to point to when someone asks "what card should I buy, I play xxxx"

I will link all user results in this post, organised by game, and then by resolution and number of cards.

If submitted results please state system specs, including clock speed and drivers used as well as in-game settings. Also putting them in a user friendly bar chart of some sort should come in handy :)

Don't forget to disable v-sync when possible, some games DO have an engine based frame cap however.

I'll get the ball rolling.

Alan Wake

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional): GTX680 SLI

AvP 2011

1080 Single Card: 7870, 7970, GTX680, 7970, 7970

1080 Multi-Card: GTX680 SLI, 7970 CF

Batman: Arkham City

1080 Single Card: 7970, 7970, 7850

1080 Multi Card: 7970 CF

Battlefield 3

1080 Single card: GTX680, 7970, GTX680, 7970, GTX680, 7870, 7970, 7970, 7850, GTX680, 7970 12.11

Combined Results - Going Hunting

1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI, GTX680 SLI, 7970 CF, 7970 CF, 7970 CF

5760/5800x1080 Single Card (3d Optional: GTX680

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional): GTX680 SLI
GTX680 SLI

Borderlands 2

1080 Single Card: GTX680

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Bulletstorm

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional): GTX680 SLI

COD:MW3

1080 Single Card: GTX680

Civilization V

1080 Single Card: GTX680

1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Crysis 2

1080 Single Card: GTX680, 7970

1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI
, 7970 CF

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional: GTX680 SLI

DiRT3

1080 Single Card: 7970, GTX680

1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional): GTX680 SLI

DiRT Showdown

1080 Single Card: 7870, 7970, 7970

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Guild Wars 2

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680

Just Cause 2

Concrete Jungle Benchmark:
1080 Single Card: 7970, 7970

1080 Multi Card: 7970 CF

Demo 'Desert' Bench:
1080 Single Card: 7870, GTX680, 7970

Dark Tower Bench:
1080 Single Card: 7970

Metro 2033

1080 Single Card: GTX680, 7970

1080 Multi Card: 7970 CF

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Max Payne 3

5760x1080 Multi Card (3d optional): GTX680 SLI

Portal 2

Note this game appears to have an engine frame cap around 300fps.

1080 Single Card: 7970, GTX680

1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Skyrim

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Sleeping Dogs

1080 Single Card: 7970, 7970, 7950

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

Sniper Elite V2

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card (3d Optional): GTX680 SLI

TDU2

1080 Single Card: 7970

Train Sim 2013

1080 Single Card: GTX680

Trine 2

5760/5800x1080 Multi Card: GTX680 SLI

More to come from my self and other users shortly. Provided I have the game I will also take requests. Currently working on BF3, Sleeping Dogs, Metro 2033 and a few others, post will be updated accordingly.

*Please note this is NOT a thread for some pointless AMD vs Nvidia bashing or VRAM debates, anyone doing so I will request that their comments are removed, this thread is purely for helping out others.*

Edit: Any advise on changes/improvements welcome.

Excel Template!!

Excel bar chart/graph/whatever template provided by gregster

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Will start benching tonight, got work off tomorrow :P

For Just Cause 2, what benchmark did you use? Or was it an average of all 3? (I can bench that on in a second, got that game downloaded)
 
Well done Paul. A good thread and very handy to use for comparisons (and hopefully a few posters will add to this). No need for "AMD/Nvidia is better", let us advise on what to purchase from the games people play and the user benchmarks.

Here is mine at 1080P with a single 680.

1080Pbenchtestsresults_zps5f119044.jpg


Here is mine for 680 SLI @ 1080P

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And finaly, here is mine for 5760*1080 with SLI 680s

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Hopefully these will be of use to someone :) Like PGI, I found portal to be capped at 300 (a few other games I tried were also capped) but I am sure that is plenty :)
 
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Tonester0011 said:
Will start benching tonight, got work off tomorrow :P

For Just Cause 2, what benchmark did you use? Or was it an average of all 3? (I can bench that on in a second, got that game downloaded)
Click to expand...

Sorry should have mentioned, that was using the Concrete Jungle benchmark, as I'm led to believe its the most demanding of the three. I'll put that in OP.

Just going to update OP with Gregster and Rusty's scores :)

Edit: OP updated.

Edit 2: IF the mods see fit, could we get a sticky please :)
 
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I think what we should also keep out the thread are are kind of rubbish general conclusions as there's no way to really tell if x cards are even without a set benchmark etc. Let the numbers speak for themselves etc. :)
 
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It would be interesting if people would also run stock clocks/mild overclocks as well.

Maybe some other 680/670 users could do that as both the 680's on offer seem to overclock a lot more than any other ive even seen. :)

Good job to all that have posted.
 
Its going to be fairly hard to gauge a 'stock' clock on Kepler due to the boost clock, something some other reviews/benchmark actually fail to mention.

I can always adjust the score links in OP to state if a card was stock or OC'd if that would help? I'll also be removing my hot link pictures in favour of links to make browsing a little easier on the eye :)

Coming today: BF3, Sleeping Dogs, Metro 2033 & Borderlands 2.

I've also found a really heavy spot on BL2 for benching, I dropped to near 60 FPS (from 140) in the 'Lynchwood Refinery" on the latest DLC, so I'll do a couple of tests in the first room that has ~10 loaders. Its certainly a place where you will see the lowest mins and averages in the game.

Edit: Would really like to see some results from: 560Ti/570/80/660/660Ti/670/6950/70/90/7850/70/7950 users. If its ok with gregster I'll host the excel template he made which is very very easy to use :)
 
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just a few queries, If the game doesnt come with a built in benchmark then how do we know where abouts in the game to get some data? multiplayer games as we know are hard to get an accurate reading, as theres many factors that can affect the results everytime.
 
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