DirectCompute Benchmark for Vista SP2 with DX11 or Win7

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

That might be it. Anyway, I re-ran the benchmark:

EDIT: I installed the 64-bit ATI Stream SDK v2.0 and now, the DirectCompute benchmark won't even start. :|

Nevermind, I fixed it by renaming "OpenCL.dll" to "OpenCL_ATI.dll". There still isn't any OpenCL support though.

[Subject Delta]

Using the standard 9.12 catalysts, Q6600 @ 3.4 GHZ, 512MB HiS 4850 (factory overclocked)

[Lighthalzen]

Mine is weird... nVidia GeForce 295 GTX, yet with such crappy scores...

CPU is fantastic though! :D

Couldn't run Open_CL, keeps crashing for me!

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Now see, that's strange, I got a higher score than you even though your card is better than mine.

Something's wrong with this.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Yeah, it's gotta be dual-GPU video cards. This benchmark doesn't seem to work well with them. So far, I've beaten an HD 4870 X2 and GTX 295 with my HD 4870. That shouldn't be.

[DOOOMKULTUS]

Man whatever this OpenCL is for, i hope my card uses it more. :D

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

OpenCL is like DirectCompute, but standardised and not controlled by any one single company.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I found the latest beta version (v0.45b) here. OpenCL works with it, provided you have the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 installed.

Here are my results:

[Cy-Kill]

OpenCL works with it, provided you have the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 installed.

Which is still stupid, the latest drivers should come with it as part of the package.

EDIT: Well, 0.45b refuses to even benchmark my GPU, keeps benchmarking the CPU which keeps jumping around in the score.

[svnO.o]

My results (v0.35)

My results (v0.45b)

Edited December 28, 2009 by Se7enVII

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Which is still stupid, the latest drivers should come with it as part of the package.

EDIT: Well, 0.45b refuses to even benchmark my GPU, keeps benchmarking the CPU which keeps jumping around in the score.

Perhaps they'll include it in the next driver release. Anyway, try running the benchmark with the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 x64 installed. You can get it here. You need to register an account though.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure v0.35 isn't working properly. People are getting insanely high scores with single-GPU video cards. The latest version, v0.45b, seems to work fine for most people. You can get it here.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I much prefer the old version :(

[DDStriker]

any reason why directx 9 is provided with this program? (can't run benchmark on xp with directx 9.0 :laugh:)

not sure if i missed it but does anyone know what this benchmark program is actually doing to test the cards?

[PricklyPoo]

I much prefer the old version :(

LOL

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

any reason why directx 9 is provided with this program? (can't run benchmark on xp with directx 9.0 :laugh:)

not sure if i missed it but does anyone know what this benchmark program is actually doing to test the cards?

In case you run into any compatibility issues, I assume. And it's quite obvious as to why the benchmark won't run on Windows XP. It doesn't support DX10, let alone DX11.

[Cy-Kill]

I did say:

Well, 0.45b refuses to even benchmark my GPU, keeps benchmarking the CPU which keeps jumping around in the score.

And, then you tell me where I can get 0.45b, so why would you tell me where to get it if I already have it & tried it, and it doesn't work:

The latest version, v0.45b, seems to work fine for most people. You can get it here.

[Xerxes]

I much prefer the old version :(

Off topic but I'm curious to how you get screenies of Windows like that? how you do that?

Back on topic...mine.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

I did say:

And, then you tell me where I can get 0.45b, so why would you tell me where to get it if I already have it & tried it, and it doesn't work?

Because I'm blind and the sky is falling down. :rolleyes: I know what you typed and the latter half of my post wasn't directed to you. It was directed to everyone else. Good job on acknowledging my attempt at helping you by pointing out something so ridiculous and trivial.

Off topic but I'm curious to how you get screenies of Windows like that? how you do that?

Back on topic...mine.

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http://localhostruploadr.com/

/offtopic

Also, use v0.45b of the benchmark. The version you used (0.35) seems to be buggy.

[Xerxes]

Because I'm blind and the sky is falling down. :rolleyes: I know what you typed and the latter half of my post wasn't directed to you. It was directed to everyone else. Good job on acknowledging my attempt at helping you by pointing out something so ridiculous and trivial.

http://localhostruploadr.com/

/offtopic

Also, use v0.45b of the benchmark. The version you used (0.35) seems to be buggy.

Off topic thanks, I know where they were uploaded too...what I mean was how where screenshots themselves made? I know when you capture a window in OSX it captures it like that but how you do it in Windows?

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Off topic thanks, I know where they were uploaded too...what I mean was how where screenshots themselves made? I know when you capture a window in OSX it captures it like that but how you do it in Windows?

The program automatically grabs the Window and uploads it, with transparency and shadowing. It isn't a feature of Windows 7/Vista. There is a dedicated program for capturing Windows in much the same way as the localhostr uploadr; however, it isn't free. It's called Window Clippings.

Back on topic:

ATI video cards (HD 4000/5000-series) seem to get better scores than their NVIDIA counterparts. It seems as though OpenCL works well with ATI video cards right off the bat.

[Xerxes]

Did it again with the new one, just did the first test since it's late and I'm too impatient to wait for the other tests to complete :p

[Frankenberrie]

Everything is running stock speeds

Q9550 ? 8GB 1066Mhz DDR2 ? PowerColor 5870 ? 9.12 Cats ? Win 7 Pro x64

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Off topic thanks, I know where they were uploaded too...what I mean was how where screenshots themselves made? I know when you capture a window in OSX it captures it like that but how you do it in Windows?

You take a screenshot of the window with a white background, then another one with a black background, and then you can reconstruct the alpha channel of the window by reading the green channel of both of the images, then you take the screenshot of the black window background and add the alpha channel to it.

The code's pretty simple, and pretty fast when written well (Mozilla use it for windowed plugins and GTK widgets and other things without issue, but they're the ones who wrote it originally), my implementation sucked but it was enough to get Mike's working :p

Edit: Actually, a DirectCompute/OpenCL/CUDA version of it would be quite interesting, and very fast as well.

[Subject Delta]

New results using the fixed version and the 9.12 hotfix with the Stream SDK

[Denis W. Veteran]

My results. GPU is slightly overclocked. Same for CPU (Q6600). Running an optimized Forceware 195.62 set.