5870 owners: Catalyst 10.6 Beta is FAST

[zalbard]

2x 5770 are currently performing around 20-33% faster than a single 5870, and up to 150% faster than a single 5770 in most current reviews, games and benchmarks with the latest drivers, if there are even more performance boosts to be had that that is just, well, awesome!!!!1111!!!!!

wtf?

[BeepBeep2]

wtf?

They've super optomized crossfire?



My cards pull 24-25k at stock in 3DMark06 depending on my CPU speed. I love em.

20k GPU score in Vantage.

[Mungri]

wtf?

Meaning that I completely fail at reading benchmark graphs



I were confused by the poor performance of a single 5870 in between 1 and 2 5770s, and it looked like 5770 = 100%, 5870 = 125%, 2x 5770 = 150% just by looking at the bar sizes.

Its more like 5770 x2 = 100%, 5770 = 48-50%, 5870 = 80%, if that makes sense .

Heres what I were looking at:



And thats with older drivers.

[marcolecorse]

[zpaf]

My first benchmark with these 10.6 beta.
I7-960 at 4200 with HT on and Ati cards at 950/1300.
2000 gpu score +
Very nice

[CrimInalA]

i gained 3000 vantage points with these 10.6 compared to 10.5 .
BUT , i get graphic corruptions in DX11 alien versus predator benchmark now .. anyone else that has this ?

edit : also graphic corruptions in heaven benchmark ..
edit : graphic corruptions also in Dirt2
this is definately a BETA driver ^^

[slaveondope]

Any news on 10.6 effecting BC2? and benefits for running 5850's in Xfire? or am I just going to have to find out myself?

[SoulsCollective]

i gained 3000 vantage points with these 10.6 compared to 10.5 .
BUT , i get graphic corruptions in DX11 alien versus predator benchmark now .. anyone else that has this ?

As I said on the first page, was getting corruption in Metro using these, so uninstalled again.

[Dresdenboy]

i gained 3000 vantage points with these 10.6 compared to 10.5 .
BUT , i get graphic corruptions in DX11 alien versus predator benchmark now .. anyone else that has this ?

edit : also graphic corruptions in heaven benchmark ..
edit : graphic corruptions also in Dirt2
this is definately a BETA driver ^^

Ouch! Sounds like the drivers use some parts on the GPU in a way, that they might hit the limits of proper functioning.

Could someone measure the power consumption with old and new drivers or point to already existing results?

[CrimInalA]

both my cards are running stock .

if i bump the voltage on my first card to 1.3 (from 1.125) the graphic corruptions are gone ..
Does anyone else have this ? or is this just my card .

[billdavis]

CrimInalA: You have been here a lot longer than me! Are you really posting this in this thread??

if you have visual corruptions and adding voltage helps then..... your card just needs the voltage, it could be bad cooling, but that is very unlikely!

[CrimInalA]

CrimInalA: You have been here a lot longer than me! Are you really posting this in this thread??

this thread is about 10.6 beta drivers right ?
I didn't have this with 10.5 !

[initialised]

Improvements to crossfire are awesome, its already so awesome that anymore speed boosts are like extra awesome.

2x 5770 are currently performing around 20-33% faster than a single 5870, and more than 100% faster than a single 5770 in some current, games and benchmarks with the latest drivers, if there are even more performance boosts to be had that that is just, well, AWESOME!!!!1111!!!!!

No they don't last time I checked 5770 CF and 5850 were on par for both price and performance. Post some screen shots or it didn't happen.

[Kensek]

I tried the Beta 10.6 yesterday and I also increased my Vantage core by 3,000 points to P40855.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=2261941

[Eastcoasthandle]

i gained 3000 vantage points with these 10.6 compared to 10.5 .
BUT , i get graphic corruptions in DX11 alien versus predator benchmark now .. anyone else that has this ?

edit : also graphic corruptions in heaven benchmark ..
edit : graphic corruptions also in Dirt2
this is definately a BETA driver ^^

No, I tried Dirt 2 and didn't notice any IQ issues. I no longer use heaven as I really don't see the point of it after it was exposed. So I really don't find any merit to that benchmark any longer. BC2 load times and IQ look fine. I'll look into AvP.

Edit:
Just played around in AvP and found no IQ issues.

[Mungri]

No they don't last time I checked 5770 CF and 5850 were on par for both price and performance. Post some screen shots or it didn't happen.

Post 53.

1 5850 is far behind 2x 5770s IMHO.

[BeepBeep2]

Yeah, I was gonna say...two 5770's are right behind the 5870 and way above the 5850.

[initialised]

Yeah, I was gonna say...two 5770's are right behind the 5870 and way above the 5850.

Was in vantage with Phenom 2 X6 @ 3.5GHz on a 770 board so the 4x on the second slot must have kept it down.

[Mungri]

Yeah, I was gonna say...two 5770's are right behind the 5870 and way above the 5850.

In vantage yes, but not in most games it seems.

Games in which Crossfire works as well as it can see a double performance gain from 2 5770s over a single one, but for some wierd reason the 5870 isnt performing at the same speed, even though its technically the same as having the same power as 2x 5770 but on a single chip.

Crossfire has been optimised so well now in a lot of modern games that the gains from having 2 cards can be higher than having a single card with double the specs.

The only issue I have is that forcing AA through the CCC doesnt work in a lot of games. I have enough power to comfortably run most games I play with 12x Edge Detect AA, but the CCC setting doesnt override the in game setting at all, and most games only let you select 4 or 8x MSAA as the maximum (virtually no difference between 4x and 8x MSAA, I want either 4x SSAA or 12x Edge Detect in everything I play).

If ATI could ever sort that out, it would be brilliant.

[initialised]

The only issue I have is that forcing AA through the CCC doesnt work in a lot of games... If ATI could ever sort that out, it would be brilliant.

I get that with my 4870x2, but only in DX10/11 games.

[STEvil]

As I said on the first page, was getting corruption in Metro using these, so uninstalled again.

check your temperatures.

[CrimInalA]

I'm RMA-ing one of my cards . the artifacting goes away when i put 1.3V on the core at stock speeds . so something is fishy with the card , not the drivers .

(or maybe 10.6 just stresses the card a lot more in CF than it did in 10.5, and the card can not cope with it)

[marcolecorse]

Hello

Bench H2O

[Kimofil]

Hello

Bench H2O

You CPU on water for this run???? Custom chiller? How about you temps?
I think you need update you Vantage to 1.02 and post you fabolous score on hwbot.
Looks like you will have #2 spot with this score in 5970 CrossfireX rating.

[marcolecorse]

No Chilleur

rad 480 TFC Feser en push/pull