Yusuf M. Veteran Posted February 8, 2014 Veteran Share Posted February 8, 2014 I got the idea for this thread after stumbling upon this one from 2009. I found my old benchmark results and it made me wonder what my score would be with my new gaming PC. As I suspected, the difference is huge. The Radeon R9 270X is an overclocked version of the Radeon HD 7870. I'll post a link below so run it and show us your score. The benchmark only takes a couple of minutes to complete. Link: http://www.ngohq.com/?page=Files&go=giveme&dwn_id=937 Steps: Download the benchmark Run the benchmark with the "all" button. Take a screenshot and upload it to imgur.com. Bonus: You can use Shotty to take high quality screenshots of the window, as shown below. Old: New: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 The system I'm on at the moment is an older system that gets upgraded every so often, consider it a healthy mid-range frankenbuild, nothing spectacular but it games reasonably well all things considered. Mostly used as a development workstation, most of my gaming is done on a different system which I'll benchmark later. GPU is just a single HD 7870, it's not overclocked either, using the stock GPU cooler so not going to mess with it on this system. CPU (AMD Vishera 6300) is overclocked to 4.1GHz (not bad with the stock cooler), looking at Yusuf's shot above it shows the difference between an Intel and AMD CPU's performance.. but for the price (dirt cheap) I'm not complaining.. Visual Studio 2013 and IntelliJ flies on the thing, good enough for me. This time last year it was running a Core2Duo as well, those guts are now running a WAMP/Rails/Django/etc server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindTrickz Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 It would appear that this benchmark favors AMD cards as evident by how much better overall score the above Radeon 7900 series card did over my GTX 780 (unless it's actually a dual GPU 7990 he has in there), AMD cards have always had the edge when it comes to OpenCL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted February 8, 2014 Author Veteran Share Posted February 8, 2014 The system I'm on at the moment is an older system that gets upgraded every so often, consider it a healthy mid-range frankenbuild, nothing spectacular but it games reasonably well all things considered. Mostly used as a development workstation, most of my gaming is done on a different system which I'll benchmark later. GPU is just a single HD 7870, it's not overclocked either, using the stock GPU cooler so not going to mess with it on this system. CPU (AMD Vishera 6300) is overclocked to 4.1GHz (not bad with the stock cooler), looking at Yusuf's shot above it shows the difference between an Intel and AMD CPU's performance.. but for the price (dirt cheap) I'm not complaining.. Visual Studio 2013 and IntelliJ flies on the thing, good enough for me. This time last year it was running a Core2Duo as well, those guts are now running a WAMP/Rails/Django/etc server. The fact that mine is clocked higher than yours makes a difference too. As for your CPU, it isn't that big of a deal with a game like Battlefield 4. I've noticed a trend where the performance of the CPU matters less and less. Anyway, here are the speeds. Stock is 30 GPixel/s (vs. 35.8) and 80 GTexel/s (vs. 89.6). HD 7950 or 7970? It would appear that this benchmark favors AMD cards as evident by how much better overall score the above Radeon 7900 series card did over my GTX 780 (unless it's actually a dual GPU 7990 he has in there), AMD cards have always had the edge when it comes to OpenCL. That seems to be the case with GCN cards and up (e.g. Radeon HD 7K series and R9 series). I'm wondering if NVIDIA's push for CUDA is burning them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Norris Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 The fact that mine is clocked higher than yours makes a difference too. As for your CPU, it isn't that big of a deal with a game like Battlefield 4. I've noticed a trend where the performance of the CPU matters less and less. Ahh was referring to the CPU when I mentioned the differences between these two systems. This system's FX6300 4.1GHz 6 core is just a hair under (benchmark wise) your Core-i5 3.2GHz 4 core CPU, even with 2 extra cores and almost 1GHz faster. Even noticed the difference on other systems here, the Intel CPU's just seem to have more horsepower versus the AMD's, at least with the particular ones I have.. but like I said it was picked for it's price, saved a couple hundred and this one isn't for gaming primarily anyway but a workstation that I happen to occasionally game on. I agree though about gaming and CPU's, most of them don't really notice a big difference anymore.. there's a few exceptions though, GW2 seems to be very CPU bound, just not optimized very well i guess. Video card didn't change but the CPU upgrade made a huge difference.. it's actually playable at max settings at a passable framerate now versus having to scale it way back (and still pokey) from the old C2D. All the other games that are on this one just fly at max across the board, pretty happy with it for what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 HD 7950 or 7970? 7990, how else can it get such a massive OpenCL score ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I can't complete the benchmark, I get some weird GPU / CPU checksum failed error Well I got it to go by pressing "All", but I don't think the CPU test even does anything, when it was running I had 0 load on the CPU and CPU temp did not change at all. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 @ 1058 MHz (10DE / 1180 / 26803842) Intel® Core i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 logical CPUs) Benchmark version: v0.45 DirectCompute: D8991.2 OpenCL: C12630.7 CPU: M84.6 nvlddmkm x64 (build 9200) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 I can't complete the benchmark, I get some weird GPU / CPU checksum failed error Yep, same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick2k2 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 GPU is at stock overclock for a Asus Direct CU II 6970, however this is a Direct CU II 6950 I flashed with the bios from the better card to unlock the extra shaders and boost the core and ram clocks. CPU is running at 4.3GHz (43*100) Then after overclocking the GPU to 960MHz. This card was clocked at 810MHz when I bought it and that was slightly overclocked from the reference speed of 800MHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 I can't complete the benchmark, I get some weird GPU / CPU checksum failed error Yep, same here. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick2k2 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Ok one more, see how variable the results are for each test, however the OpenCL score can be exactly the same many times in a row Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ_ Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 7970 with 3570k And here is with updated GPU drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick2k2 Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 If you cannot complete the benchmark without errors then you either have faulty hardware or you have overclocked your rig a bit too far or just could have the wrong config for what you are trying to achieve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlonite Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 here yee go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlonite Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 also me and squall_leonheart discovered this benchmark is rubbish it's highly driver dependant and does not give accurate results it's also affected by things like turning CF on or off ( I had a single HD5770 out score a pair in CF) your much better off using CompuBench CL 1.1.3 Desktop Community Edition! which you can grab from here http://compubench.com/download/CompuBench_CL_1_1_3_Desktop_Community_Installer.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ_ Posted February 9, 2014 Share Posted February 9, 2014 Drivers seem to affect the results hugely, yes. Just look at my before/after results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 If you cannot complete the benchmark without errors then you either have faulty hardware or you have overclocked your rig a bit too far or just could have the wrong config for what you are trying to achieve Yes obviously it's not that this is a POS app.... I have100% stable hardware and 0 overclock.. so yeah. probably the version of the app in the first post is from 2009, I see the link above, someone verify that newer version works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I dont want to run any benchies, it will remind me this Core i7 950 is getting a little long in the tooth. I cant spend any money on things for me until I get a ring for her - so... just gonna have to stick with what I have. Its OK - I havent played any games in a while and all of the other hardware is more than fast enough... at least that is what I keep telling myself. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted February 10, 2014 Author Veteran Share Posted February 10, 2014 7990, how else can it get such a massive OpenCL score ;) For the record, I thought I included "7990" and I figured that's what you had. Dat OpenCL score doe. I bet I could beat it with 2x R9 270X. :p GPU is at stock overclock for a Asus Direct CU II 6970, however this is a Direct CU II 6950 I flashed with the bios from the better card to unlock the extra shaders and boost the core and ram clocks. CPU is running at 4.3GHz (43*100) Then after overclocking the GPU to 960MHz. This card was clocked at 810MHz when I bought it and that was slightly overclocked from the reference speed of 800MHz Mine comes in close. Not bad for a card that's essentially an overclocked HD 7870. It gets a much higher DirectCompute score. I guess that's because of the different architecture (VLIW4 vs. GCN). also me and squall_leonheart discovered this benchmark is rubbish it's highly driver dependant and does not give accurate results it's also affected by things like turning CF on or off ( I had a single HD5770 out score a pair in CF) your much better off using CompuBench CL 1.1.3 Desktop Community Edition! which you can grab from here http://compubench.com/download/CompuBench_CL_1_1_3_Desktop_Community_Installer.exe Cool. It's more reliable and it hasn't been abandoned like the one I linked to in the original post. Here are my results: Drivers seem to affect the results hugely, yes. Just look at my before/after results Yeah. You either get outrageously high results or ones that look right. I ran the benchmark again with the beta Catalyst 14.1 drivers (see above). Yes obviously it's not that this is a POS app.... I have100% stable hardware and 0 overclock.. so yeah. probably the version of the app in the first post is from 2009, I see the link above, someone verify that newer version works? It's the software. It doesn't like NVIDIA. But you're right. It hasn't been updated since 2009. HoochieMamma 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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