Unigine DirectX11 benchmark

TheRealDeal · 24 Oct 2009 at 19:50

johny dolan said:
You need a 5 series card for dx11 the 4 series cards are dx10.1 you need dx11 to run tessellation.x1950 pro cards are dx9.

I wonder if this is true though as ati cards have had tesselation units for quite a long time. From the 4 series back they obviously can't run dx11 but i wonder if its possible for game makers to make use of this in the older cards.

Final8y · 24 Oct 2009 at 19:54

TheRealDeal said:
I wonder if this is true though as ati cards have had tesselation units for quite a long time. From the 4 series back they obviously can't run dx11 but i wonder if its possible for game makers to make use of this in the older cards.

The DX11 tessellation version is different to the older tessellation versions so no not without a different code path.

Rroff · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:03

Even with a different code path - I would hazard a guess the tessellation on older cards while upto doing a few character models would probably weep at this extensive useage... and produce even less satisfactory results visually.

Cd0gz · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:05

I noticed i speed increase when i swiched windows7 to basic, removing the transparent windows. 39.5 with tessellation on, before i was getting
37

Final8y · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:06

Rroff said:
Even with a different code path - I would hazard a guess the tessellation on older cards while upto doing a few character models would probably weep at this extensive useage... and produce even less satisfactory results visually.

Most likely.

gareth170 · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:07

i think the drivers are maybe holding the 5x00 series cards back on performance.

Cd0gz · 24 Oct 2009 at 20:13

gareth170 said:
i think the drivers are maybe holding the 5x00 series cards back on performance.

I can believe tessellation would have such a dramatic affect on the framerates so I think your right.

Gerticys · 25 Oct 2009 at 01:05

straxusii said:
If you are on Vista then you need to install DX11, it's not out yet but there is a hack to make it appear on windows update

Not really a hack but a platform update - class it is a post-beta but pre-release

My Vista 5870 score:

Rroff · 25 Oct 2009 at 02:02

Shame no ones running with the same settings... makes things a bit hard to compare...

Standard settings, no tessellation run:

straxusii · 25 Oct 2009 at 07:24

Strange how we are seeing such a wild range of scores with the single 5870, the results that I've seen go from ~34 to ~44 at 1920x1200, next time I run it I'll run perfmon and see if the cpu is maxxing out at any point.

I had task manager up and I think the thing is single threaded, but I'll confirm that.

5870CF seems to be a lot more consistent at ~68

Edit: Ran it through again at 1920x1200 and it isnt CPU limited, and it is using all 4 cores albeit not evenly.

LoadsaMoney · 30 Oct 2009 at 18:59

Doesn't work for me, only works in Dx10 mode, have to Task Manager kill it, not responding, either just sits on the loading screen after the word benchmark appears with the mouse pointer on screen, or when benchmark fully appears, goes to another screen that spells out unigine, and thats it.

Could it be as im still on the RC ?

That Ladybug Dx11 demo works fine.

Mr Paul · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:32

Nah Win7 RC works fine with that demo here.

LoadsaMoney · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:37

Ahh well, bugger knows why it doesn't work then, no good in it just working in Dx10

johny dolan · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:39

LoadsaMoney im sure i read somewhere that a guy that couldnt run it fixed his problem by selecting gamer sound on his xfi.Worth a shot m8.

Rroff · 30 Oct 2009 at 23:52

Going by his sig tho Loadsamoney has a xonar.

LoadsaMoney · 31 Oct 2009 at 00:14

Yeah got a Xonar, but i could try turning of the GX or something i spose, id have to redownload it now though, as i deleted it

johny dolan · 31 Oct 2009 at 00:34

I found the post from guru Originally Posted by blade203
Heya guys, i've tried to run this sexy benchmark on my quad core with Ati Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 1 GB, 4 GB RAM,Windows 7 @ Catalyst v 9.10, direct x installed and i get some weird openal32.dll error(! errors table pops up)) and benchmark just wont run, tried different settings, even OpenGl and still same error, any help would be appreciated, thx
and the reply
if you have an x-fi soundcard, switch it to game mode
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=307412&page=6
i didnt see you had xonar sorry.

Fourstar · 31 Oct 2009 at 01:33

HeX said:
Comparison Tesselation / NO Tesselation

- 1680x1050 4xAA 16xAnniso DX11 Tesselation

FPS: 36.7
Score: 924

- 1680x1050 4xAA 16xAnniso DX11 NO Tesselation

FPS: 51.6
Score: 1300

Crossfire HD5770's @ 900/1300

Was really impressed how well the 5770 stacked up to its bigger brothers till I noticed crossfire!

Any chance you can run again with a single card?

magicroundabout · 31 Oct 2009 at 08:41

annoying how we can't see whether people have tessalation on or off.

here are mine with 9.10 drivers.

On:

Off:

wolvers · 31 Oct 2009 at 09:00

Magic, is that with the 5870 at stock cos it's worse than my OC 5850?! :confused: