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Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX

Published by Christian Ney on 24.05.12 (35378 reads)
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Benchmarks and Games Settings

Futuremark

  • 3DMark 11 (1.0.3)
    • GPU Test - Performance Preset
  • 3DMark Vantage (1.1.0)
    • GPU Test - Performance Preset

Unigine Heaven DX11 Benchmark

Version 3.0
API DirectX 11
Tessellation Extreme
Shaders High
Anisotropy 16x
Stereo 3D Disabled
Anti-aliasing 8x
Full Screen Yes
Resolution 1920 x 1080


Geeks3D TessMark

Version 0.3.0
Map Set Set 4 (2048 x 204
Tesselation Insane (x64)
Full Screen Yes
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Anti-aliasing 8x
Tessellation High
Duration 60000 (ms)


Geeks3D FurMark (Burn-in test)

 
Version 1.10.0
Full Screen Yes
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Anti-aliasing 8x MSAA


Alien vs Predator DX11 Benchmark

 
Texture Quality Very High
Shadow Quality High
Hardware Tesselation Yes
Advance Shadow Sampling Yes
Full Srceen Anti-Aliasing Samples 4x
Anisotropic Filtering 16x
SSAO On
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080


Batman: Arkham City Integrated Benchmark

 
FullScreen Yes
Resolution 1920 x 1080
V Sync No
Anti-Aliasing 8x MSAA
Stereoscopic 3D Status No
DirectX 11 Features MVSS And HBAO
DirectX 11 Tesselation High
Detail Level Extreme
Dynamic Shadow Yes
Motion Blur Yes
Distortion Yes
Lens Flares Yes
Light Shafts Yes
Reflections Yes
Ambient Occlusion Yes
Hardware Accelerated PhysX Off


Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (5 Minutes GamePlay)

 
Resolution 1920 x 1080
FullScreen On
Vertical Sync Off
Field of view 70
Motion Blur Amount Max
Graphics Quality Ultra


BattleField 3 (5 Minutes GamePlay)

 
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Aspect Ratio Wide 16:9
Anti-Aliasing 4x
Screen Refresh Rate 60 Hz
Sync Every Frame No
Shadows Yes
Specular Map Yes
Depth Of Field Yes
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion High Quality
Soften Smoke Edges Yes
Bullet Impacts Yes
Image Quality Ultra


Crysis 2 DX11 + HiRes Texture Pack Benchmark

 
Quality Ultra
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Anti-Aliasing 4x
Map Central Park/Adrenaline
Runs 1
API DirectX 11
Edge AA Edge AA
Hi-Res Textures On


DIRT 2 Integrated Benchmark

 
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Refresh Rate 60
MultiSampling 8x MSAA
VSync Off
Aspect Ration 16:9
Details Ultra Preset


Dragon Age II (5 Minutes GamePlay)

 
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Full Screen Mode Yes
Renderer DirectX 11
Vertical Sync no
Graphics Detail Very High
Anti-Aliasing 8x
Anisotropic Filtering 16x
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Yes
Diffusion Depth of Field Yes
High Quality Blur Yes


The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (5 Minutes GamePlay)

 
Resolution 1920 x 1080
Aspect Ratio Wide 16:9
Anti-Aliasing 8x
Anisotropic-Filtering 16x
Details Ultra
Vertical Sync Disabled


S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Benchmark

 
Preset Ultra
Renderer Enhan. full dyn. lighting (DX11)
Video Mode 1920 x 1080
MSAA 4x
MSAA for A-tested objects DX10.0 Style [Standard]
SSAO Mode HDAO
SSAO Quality High
Use DX10.1 No
Enable Tesselation Yes
Contact Hardening Shadows Yes



Page 1 - Introduction Page 8 - Crysis 2 / Dragon Age 2
Page 2 - Test Setup & Specifications Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim / StarCraft 2
Page 3 - Benchmarks and Games Settings Page 10 - Power Consumption
Page 4 - 3D Mark 11 / 3D Mark Vantage Page 11 - Summary Benchmark Results
Page 5 - Unigine Heaven / TessMark Page 12 - Performance Index
Page 6 - Alien vs. Predator / Batman: Arkham City / Dirt 2 Page 13 - Performance/Watts & Performance/Price
Page 7 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 / BattleField 3 Page 14 - Conclusion



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Anonymous
Published: 2012/5/24 23:11  Updated: 2012/5/24 23:50
 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
Performance/Watt hat ausversehen wohl die Performance/Price Statistik abbekommen!

Meiner meinung nach müsste man Games die in CF/SLI nicht funktionieren aus der berechnung zur Leistungsgewinnung mit mehreren Grafikkarten rausnehmen! Und dann halt spezifisch erwähnen das diese Nicht funktionierten und nicht mirgerechnet wurden!

Aber ein toller test! Gute Arbeit.

mfg

Haldi
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Christian Ney
Published: 2012/5/24 23:52  Updated: 2012/5/24 23:52
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Joined: 2010/12/1
From: France
Comments: 810
 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
Yes, I saw that the graph on Page 13 is wrong, I will fix it tomorrow as I can't at the moment, all the files are at the office.

Thanks
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Anonymous
Published: 2012/5/26 9:50  Updated: 2012/5/26 9:50
 A Clear Choice?
"Now for those who want pure performance not looking at the price or power consumption the GTX 680 SLI is clearly the best choice."

Clearly? Instances where crossfire/SLI don't work aside, the 7970 and 680 seem pretty dang close. In fact, the 7970 has a slight edge in the demanding games like BF3 and Crysis, 680 SLI has it's own edge in other titles, while big differences in performance are only seen in games that don't need much power. COD can run on a toaster, Skyrim is perpetually CPU bottlenecked, so why use them as deciding factors?



It's too close to call IMO. Especially with no OC in this review.
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Anonymous
Published: 2012/5/29 10:15  Updated: 2012/5/29 10:45
 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
I find this review quite useless...
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Anonymous
Published: 2012/5/29 16:40  Updated: 2012/5/29 17:10
 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
I find the conclusion wrong. Nvidia Cards are not scaling good. I think they are disqualified with this test für good sli performance.

AMDs has in some games near twice performance to a single card. If someone like to use a pair of two cards with best performance for high price should take two 7970.
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Christian Ney
Published: 2012/5/29 17:12  Updated: 2012/5/29 17:12
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From: France
Comments: 810
 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
Yeah but did you check the power consumption of the 7970 CrossFire against the 680 SLI ?

Also nVidia drivers seems more stable as there aren't any problemes in Skyrim and Batman for exemple.

I will try to fix the CrossFire problems with AMD, I emailed them already
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rewarder
Published: 2012/5/30 13:25  Updated: 2012/5/30 13:25
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Joined: 2004/7/5
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 Re: Gaming Performance: GTX 680 SLI vs HD 7970 CFX vs HD 7950 CFX
At the moment it looks like - according to AMD - there must be an issue with the 12.4 driver version reagarding the CrossFire issues. According to the red fraction CrossFire was working in Skyrim with 12.3 drivers.

At the moment Chris is preparing a driver comparison article where he tests AMDs 12.3 and 12.4 driver.
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