Quote Originally Posted by iandh View Post
I'm benching my unlocked 720BE against a guy with that has a 5870 and i7 over at OCN... results are less than exciting (for me at least)

I just ran Crysis Warhead bench 0.33 (avalanche flythrough)


1920 0xAA

i7 @ 4.2Ghz Min: 29.55 Max: 46.81 Avg: 37.04

Phenom II x4 @ 3.6Ghz Min: 25.12 Max: 36.73 Avg: 30.99


1920 8xAA

i7 @ 4.2Ghz Min: 21.29 Max: 37.74 Avg: 28.65

Phenom II x4 @ 3.6Ghz Min: 18.24 Max: 29.33 Avg: 23.83



note: Unlock from X3 to X4 gave me a slight avg fps increase, and almost 2fps increase in min fps.

It appears since the min FPS numbers are all very close, they are revealing spots where the bench is GPU limited, and the Max FPS numbers are quite different, showing spots where the bench is CPU limited

Anyone who owns a 5870 and wants to add benches into the mix is welcome... I'll run the same bench if possible on my system and we can see what can be worked out about this. OBVIOUSLY a 3.6Ghz Phenom II is no match for a 4.2Ghz i7, but I would have though that the results would have been much more GPU limited in this bench.
OK here is mine on:
PhII @3750MHz/2500MHz/1000MHz (core/nb/mem)
HD5870 default
DX10, Enth., 64bit on Vista x64

DirectX 10 ENTHUSIAST 3X @ Map: avalanche @ 0 1920 x 1200 AA 0x
==> Framerate [ Min: 15.05 Max: 46.67 Avg: 32.30 ]