Which benchmark?

[Guru]

Hi all,

I want to bench my gpu before and after going SLI.

I am interested in minimum and maximum FPS mainly.

I have 3D mark vantage but don't know if this can do it?

New card arrived today and I have already flashed my mobo from P6T SE to P6T to enable SLI so I'm good to go :

Cheers,

G

 

[Guru]

Does BF3 have one?

Also stupid question....when I have both cards in which one do I plug my monitor into? Or does it not matter?

Also there looks to be two places I could plug the SLI bridge into... I'm guessing that's for if I have more than 2 cards (which I don't) I was going to plug it onto the one closest to the end of the GPU... Is that correct?

Sorry for the questions, I'm an SLI virgin.

Cheers,

G

 

[Guru]

Thanks

Hoping for a decent improvement.

And even more hopeful that it will run BF4 well

 

[Guru]

My card is indeed the 2.5gb version. It runs BF3 with every setting maxed out completely at 1080p but I too had heard that BF4 will use more than twice as much of the possibilities of the frostbite engine so I had assumed I would probably need twice the GPU power to maintain decent frame rates.

My CPU never goes above 20% on BF3 but on Ultra my GPU can often be at full load. Will be interesting to see how two of these cards fare. Especially when I put them under water.

 

[Guru]

Just running heaven now.... Does it EVER finish? Seems to be repeating itself over and over! Lol

 

[Guru]

Ok I figured it out in the end... and the scores are:

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
FPS: 43.8
Score: 1104
Min FPS: 17.1
Max FPS: 87.4
System Platform:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (2806MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.2000 (2559MB) x1
Settings:
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset: Custom
Quality: High
Tessellation: Disabled

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
FPS: 83.6
Score: 2107
Min FPS: 20.2
Max FPS: 161.6
System Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (2806MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.1422
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.2000 (2559MB) x1
Settings
Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 fullscreen
Preset: Custom
Quality: High
Tessellation: Disabled

 

[Guru]

I bet your happy with that. If you use these settings:

Mode = 1920*1080 8*AA Fullscreen
Preset = Custom
Quality = Ultra
Tessellation = Extreme

You can see how your set up compares to others in the Heaven 4 benchmark thread. HERE

That's more taxing on the GPU:

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0
FPS: 44.1
Score: 1111
Min FPS: 17.3
Max FPS: 95.1
System Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz (2806MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.1422
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 9.18.13.2000 (2559MB) x1
Settings Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset: Custom
Quality: Ultra
Tessellation: Extreme