AMD FX "Bulldozer" Review - (4) !exclusive! Excuse for 1-Threaded Perf.

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Thanks. However, you can be bottlenecked by a component to a certain degree, it doesn't have to be complete. It could also mean, that you start to be seriously gpu bottlenecked at roughly 130fps and BD only reaches this mark with tweaking. To analyze this, you would have to do one of two things:

a) overclock sandy further. if the fps rise (almost) 1:1 with the clock increase, you are indeed cpu bound. If not, there is your limit, that now both cpus hit
b) overclock your 6990. if the fps rise, you are gpu bound.

Sorry, but so far it is not conclusive. Also, is it DX9 or DX11?

Here some results for comparison:

http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulle...76&postcount=7
970@4000, gtx 570@800mhz sli: 153.4fps avg

His cpu is arguably slower than a sandy bridge at 4700mhz and he still has more fps, because his gpus are slightly faster (or scale better) than your 6990. So no cpu bottleneck.

Thats all fine and well however the point is at at around the same speed on 2 almost identical systems with identical settings the scores and gaming experience and results are almost identical. aka this is apples to apples, not grapefruits to pineapples

I'm also quite aware if I ran at 1280x1024 results would be different but this aint the 90's and not indicative of the real world


Put simply do you think that guy with 570's hitting 150fps on a monitor capped at 60hz is getting any better gaming experience than myself on these 2 rigs?

It's 64 bit win 7 if you haven't noticed the ram quantity, and the game and OS supports DX 11..........

The goal here is not E-peen fps, just a direct comparison at real world settings that most users will end up with for 24/7

btw your link = inconclusive Sli? 2 way? 3 way? not enough details imo