**The OcUK Benchmarks thread!**

[LtMatt]

Going Hunting is the best one for consistency as you have almost no interaction with the game play for the first few minuts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9EtvpMVZM&feature=plcp

Agreed.

Who's up for starting a new benchmark on going hunting?

If we all play on easy we should be able to work through it quickly and consistently.

I think its important we keep track of the time as well, in that video its 4minutes 50 seconds or something, maybe if we all ensure to keep it under 5 minutes?

I'll go run it now and see how i get on.

 

[LtMatt]

Gregster I am not pointing the finger. Yes there's only 2 gtx680's and you are one what I meant by not pointing the finger is I don't think anyone is posting false results on purpose. I also think your doing a good job in this thread. You asked if the results looked right and I gave you opinion and an honest one with reasons.

It does look a bit strange but to be fair to greg if you think his result looks dodgy scroll back a few pages and find the one from rusty.

 

[Tonester0011]

I'm going to playthrough the campaign to get to going hunting then.
Shouldn't take too long i hope?? LOL

 

[Gregster]

Gregster I am not pointing the finger. Yes there's only 2 gtx680's and you are one what I meant by not pointing the finger is I don't think anyone is posting false results on purpose. I also think your doing a good job in this thread. You asked if the results looked right and I gave you opinion and an honest one with reasons.

My test was the same as Matts run and hence the higher fps. No big explosions or much going on at all. I got fed up with running this test with so many different set ups (single stock/single OC/SLI stock/Sli OC/5760*1080 stock/5760*1080 oc) and then someone jumps in with,

The gtx680 results are a bit suspect I feel.

That kind of comment isn't required or needed. I done the tests to aid others in the decision for what GPU they are wanting to buy and in no way would I fabricte the results to try to make Nvidia look better. In fact with the latest driver releases from AMD, I am very hard pushed to recommend an Nvidia card at the current prices. The only time I would at the moment is if they are using 3D Vision.

Switching SLI to single/3 screens is a PITA with Nvidia and requires pressing the reset button often than not. I was trying my hardest in every run to make it 'normal play' and no hiding in the garage like the video.

 

[TheRealDeal]

My test was the same as Matts run and hence the higher fps. No big explosions or much going on at all. I got fed up with running this test with so many different set ups (single stock/single OC/SLI stock/Sli OC/5760*1080 stock/5760*1080 oc) and then someone jumps in with, That kind of comment isn't required or needed. I done the tests to aid others in the decision for what GPU they are wanting to buy and in no way would I fabricte the results to try to make Nvidia look better. In fact with the latest driver releases from AMD, I am very hard pushed to recommend an Nvidia card at the current prices. The only time I would at the moment is if they are using 3D Vision.

Switching SLI to single/3 screens is a PITA with Nvidia and requires pressing the reset button often than not. I was trying my hardest in every run to make it 'normal play' and no hiding in the garage like the video.

I believe you and there's no need for you to justify it. Take a step back and have a look at your result v the other gtx680. Maybe his result is on the low side for stock this I don't know. Your results are over 50 percent higher. Even your overclocking would not bring that performance jump. It could be his results are very low that's why I said not pointing the finger. The results look odd comparing with the amd cards which are all at different clock speeds and all look in line.

I will say again you are doing a good job man and was just being honest when looking at the results. No offense meant.

 

[Gregster]

If you see my stock card run, it is pretty similar to the other 680?

 

[humbug]

Agreed.

Who's up for starting a new benchmark on going hunting?

If we all play on easy we should be able to work through it quickly and consistently.

I think its important we keep track of the time as well, in that video its 4minutes 50 seconds or something, maybe if we all ensure to keep it under 5 minutes?

I'll go run it now and see how i get on.

I have the result, i will put it up later,

I use the point in the clouds where the Saving indicator comes up as an end bench reference point, once you get through the clouds you take over the game, soon after. So the save indicator is about right, its a good solid run.

 

[LtMatt]

I have the result, i will put it up later,

I use the point in the clouds where the Saving indicator comes up as an end bench reference point, once you get through the clouds you take over the game, soon after. So the save indicator is about right, its a good solid run.

Yeah nice, my bad i should have watched the whole vid before saying that.

Using that save (tor right hand corner) as an indicator to end the benchmark is really handy.

Its a shame the scene is not very demanding though.

Will run it now and repot back.

P.S Greg i dont think he was saying your results were suspect.

There were plenty of explosions in my run so im not sure where you got the idea that there weren't any.

 

[TheRealDeal]

@Gregster. Yours is 10 percent higher than his but yea pretty similar. Your oc run on that graph gained you just over 20 percent which is what I would expect. The results from the other graph have you gaining about 40 percent. You did say you changed the way you ran your bench to more like Matt's though which could be why your result is much higher.

 

[Gregster]

My run that I have posted is the same as Matts. The run that is on the green chart is completely clearing the area and going back to the garage.

The other 680 is a SC card which boosts to 1113mhz. Mine is 1202mhz. I said at the start that my stock isn't representative of normal 680 cards.

Also Matt, I followed your bench that you continued to change the rules of. The only explosion in your test (the video bench from the gates where the guy goes the wrong way) is at the very start of the firefight after pressing "space" 3 times.

For the sake of validity, I feel it is better if I stay out of this from now on as me and Rusty have been called into question.

 

[Tonester0011]

Or for the sake of continuity change our bench rules to Going Hunting?
There's very little to go wrong on that mission, but not a great deal happening...

 

[LtMatt]

My results have been pretty close to others with only my minimums slightly higher, i put that down to the large memory overclocks my card is capable of.

Anyway, lets get back to benchmarking.

2012-10-28 17:25:30 - bf3
Frames: 30026 - Time: 286402ms - Avg: 104.839 - Min: 80 - Max: 155

That was my run. The good thing about this is you dont even need to touch the mouse, i just left it at its default position all the way through apart from when you have to check stabs left and then right side. After that you dont need to move the mouse, just touch the buttons. After that i moved the dot so it was on the pilots head for consistency.

If everyone can do that this will be as consistent a benchmark as we can get in this game i think. If you look at the sky, your scores will be much higher than mine.

 

[danny77]

Gregster i would just remove the stock 680 benchmark from that graph as all the others are at different clockspeeds from standard and it just confuses people who are likeley to jump to the worng conclusion
I wouldn't expect you to keep running through every possible set up for every benchmark but would be nice if you kept contributing to the thread, not just saying that as you do the best graphs but if i were you i would just do a couple of the easiest, whichever that may be for you ie sli with one screen or sli with three screens

Anyhow i've just done Going Hunting as per humbugs video he linked to i feel this is probably the best for testing performance as it takes out the human variables that can happen with doing the other mission, its more like a canned benchmark

Anyhow heres what i got - 2012-10-28 17:12:48 - bf3
Frames: 16158 - Time: 292985ms - Avg: 55.150 - Min: 34 - Max: 85

 

[Gregster]

Sorted.

 

[LtMatt]

Also Matt, I followed your bench that you continued to change the rules of. The only explosion in your test (the video bench from the gates where the guy goes the wrong way) is at the very start of the firefight after pressing "space" 3 times.

There were two car explosions in my benchmark run, but this just proves that its hard to get consistent results. Cars can blow up when you or friendly troops shoot them so its random.

I didn't change the rules, i just followed (roughly) the time demo benchmark that guru 3d used.

Only later after we'd all done that did other people start changing it to run it from the start of the level, then later to keep running it after the time demo benchmark ended.

Considering how similar my results are to the other AMD users posted i think that gives some validity.

 

[LtMatt]

Sorted.

No one thinks you've done anything untoward with your results greg so don't worry, we want you to keep contributing.

 

[MeatLoaf]

I believe you and there's no need for you to justify it. Take a step back and have a look at your result v the other gtx680. Maybe his result is on the low side for stock this I don't know. Your results are over 50 percent higher. Even your overclocking would not bring that performance jump. It could be his results are very low that's why I said not pointing the finger. The results look odd comparing with the amd cards which are all at different clock speeds and all look in line.

I will say again you are doing a good job man and was just being honest when looking at the results. No offense meant.

Im the bloke with the other 680. I posted the stock settings for my card earlier in the thread. The other chaps cpus and cards and memory is clocked much higher than mine. I have an i5 2500K @ 4.0Ghz and stock 1600Mhz RAM.

Also when i did the BF3 benchmark i did the same part of the benchmark as the others did but there were a fair few explosions. I deliberatly shot at the cars to make then blow up so there was more going on.

Gregs results look ok to me

EDIT : Also those comparing my BF3 results to the other 680s, are you comparing my updated results as i dont think i did the bench properly the first time.

I got 41 min, 70 average and max 130 on my second proper run

I dont think gregs were far off that

 

[LtMatt]

I just did a full benchmark run of swordbreaker, the whole level right until you go back inside and save pops up in the top right corner.

I used the same clocks as my previous run so 1219/1823.

I even made sure i was out in the open, by the exploding cars of which four blew up that i counted throughout the entire scene.

2012-10-28 18:19:23 - bf3
Frames: 37352 - Time: 393856ms - Avg: 94.837 - Min: 68 - Max: 149

 

[TheRealDeal]

Im the bloke with the other 680. I posted the stock settings for my card earlier in the thread. The other chaps cpus and cards and memory is clocked much higher than mine. I have an i5 2500K @ 4.0Ghz and stock 1600Mhz RAM.

Also when i did the BF3 benchmark i did the same part of the benchmark as the others did but there were a fair few explosions. I deliberatly shot at the cars to make then blow up so there was more going on.

Gregs results look ok to me

EDIT : Also those comparing my BF3 results to the other 680s, are you comparing my updated results as i dont think i did the bench properly the first time.

I got 41 min, 70 average and max 130 on my second proper run

I dont think gregs were far off that

Yea I was comparing those results and I was taking Greg's overclock into account. His average was 108fps which is over 50 percent higher than yours. It is just to big a leap to gain that amount from overclocking. It does rather sound like it's just down to the way both of you played the level. Any how I don't doubt his results was just wondering why there was such a huge gap between the 2 gtx680's as for me overclocking could not have caused it.

 

[LtMatt]

Yea I was comparing those results and I was taking Greg's overclock into account. His average was 108fps which is over 50 percent higher than yours. It is just to big a leap to gain that amount from overclocking. It does rather sound like it's just down to the way both of you played the level. Any how I don't doubt his results was just wondering why there was such a huge gap between the 2 gtx680's as for me overclocking could not have caused it.

My results are almost identical whether i copy the time demo or play the whole level, my minimums dropped ever so slightly but only because i was next to four exploding cars.