hd 6870 Unigine Heaven Post your score !

sygnus21 said:

Fumz said:

You need to slap some AA on that bad boy and crank up the AF. :)... to many 1280x1024's in here with no candy.

Here's mines at Extreme..... first one 1280x1024, second, 1920x1080



I checked yours BTW - hd 6870 Unigine Heaven Post your score !, just to see :)

I see you have an Nvidia 570, I just have an ATI 6950.

I'll throw up an extreme tonight... but the 275.33's are a bit slower than the previous set. I noticed that when I installed them: my WEI went down 1 notch... but I'm not going to revert back just for WEI and a benchmark... so I'll just wait for other 570 owners to step up. Games still fly though, and there isn't one I don't run at least 4xAA on.

Ambient Occlusions is killer, but it makes games look sick. It's too bad ATI's don't have the option in the driver CP. I'll have to remember to test with all 3 settings. For all the tests I already put up it was set to quality.

To be able to more evenly compare cards, I'll also throw up settings. Without those it's difficult to compare cards. My personal preference is to go for the highest quality, so it would be interesting to see what others have theirs at given the huge impact drivers make on benches.

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lol @ "just". :)

sygnus21 said:

Fumz said:

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lol @ "just". :)

Thought you'd like that. Now If I had a 6970 we might have a fair fight :)

Anyway for comparision's sake it was suggested by me that all benchmarks be run in a resoultion of 1280x1024 so that we get a good comparision on cards.....

BTW it's kind of hard to compare scores since people are using different resolutions. I think a standard res of 1280x1024 should be used to compare scores to one another. With that....

hd 6870 Unigine Heaven Post your score !

A lot of posters did but as this thread moves on people tend to forget :)

As for graphic settings most users just use the standard settings so that wasn't an issue, just the resolution.

If you got the 6970 then I'd have to step up to the 580. 6950 vs 570 is a fair fight. The 50's are very good cards... but I don't have to tell you that.

Rgr that on 1280... I'll do that... didn't catch your earlier posts.

I don't mean the test settings that matter, I mean individual driver settings in the control panel. They can sway the test radically. We need to figure out what driver settings most closely resemble each other.

sygnus21 said:

As for testing the card via the video card's control panel we can do that but then you'd have readings all over the place. Since we're just comparing, the easier and standard way would be to just just standard settings at a standard res.

I didn't mean test, I meant agree upon a standard list of settings... just like we're agreeing on resolution.

For example, if I have my drivers set to performance, then I'm going to be faster than someone else who has theirs set on quality, even if we have the same everything.

If you're using driver optimizations for textures and filtering, then someone who's not, like me, isn't going to be able to put up the same numbers... without some form of agreement on driver settings, independent of Unigine, the test is skewed.

For example, there is no ATI setting for Ambient Occlusions. Nvidia has 3 settings. There's a performance hit almost as great as 2xAA if enabled. Likewise for texture and filter optimizations, although the hit isn't as great... but still... it's a hit.

We need a baseline.