Tessellation Hero Challenge (NV OR AMD)!! Bring it!!

[ragejg]

Attention NVIDIA AND AMD DirectX 11 GPU owners:



Inspired by a thread over at Xtremesystems.org...

Think your owning unigine heaven on extreme? Think again. This test is not for those of the faint of heart. You will prove yourself MEN though by taking this challenge.

Heres what you do:

Set tessellation to extreme, AA/AF to 8x/16x, resolution to 1680*1050
Start heaven
Before running the benchmark click "tessellation" and set Scale, Factor, and Distance all to 2.0
Run the benchmark

He who comes through this challenge with a average FPS over 30 can consider themselves a hero. Screenshots of your heroism is of course a must.

Please only post results that fit the criteria... mods, please delete any results that do not fit the criteria so as to keep things from getting confusing in this thread.

AMD owners: the 30 fps hero mark is attainable; it just might require some work. I wish I had another HD 5830 and a Crossfire motherboard so I could try with AMD GPUs...




MASTER LIST OF ALL COMMUNITY CHALLENGES:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=259862

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=157017

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33970677

Tessellation Hero Challenge (NV OR AMD)!! Bring i...

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=332428

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1561075

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=59003

http://forum.elitebastards.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28345

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=185503




I'll start off with my initial results... GTX 580 @ 800 core, 4200 memory, a mild OC:

... and a little more juice, 929 core/4670 memory:

Let's see what you got!

 

[Athlon2K15]

 

[2DividedbyZero]

 

[ragejg]

Don't forget:

Before running the benchmark click "tessellation" and set Scale, Factor, and Distance all to 2.0

 

[Athlon2K15]

are you going to make a score list or is this just a screenshot thread?

 

[ragejg]

are you going to make a score list or is this just a screenshot thread?

I'll make a score list.

 

[Helli]

Nah! 30 FPS not possible with my GTX465 SLI Setup. Even overclocked.

I have to say Tessellation on Scale 2x looks not very pretty for me.

Helli

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

Before running the benchmark click "tessellation" and set Scale, Factor, and Distance all to 2.0

Ever notice something.. even if you set all of this to 2.0, running the benchmark would go back to the standard one..

In anycase, heres what I got @ 800 core, 2100 memory, a mild OC:

 

[overclocking101]

heres mine. its very bad I think maybe my card dont perform right :shrug:

 

[ragejg]

Results thus far:

I posted a short article about this on the NV News front page, and made a discussion thread.

Thanks for your results everyone.

 

[Peter1986C]

ROFL I guess I cannot join this topic really, as my screen does not go higher than 1280x1024 and my 4850 does not support tess.
It helps the performance a bit though: http://forums.gamershell.com/showth...ark-2.1-is-also-available-for-for-Linux/page2

 

[ragejg]

New chart:



NOTE: First place holder CraptacularOne told me via PM that he used optimized low image quality LOD and had texture filtering quality set to the lowest setting. Though I can't say this is really "cheating", it is highly likely that almost everyone else used either the Quality or Highest Quality setting.

 

[Count Shagula]

My i7 970 has been sent back to get fixed so using backup rig.

460s running at 860mhz, going to try at 900 soon but it crashed out last time :S

Nfi why it shows my PHYSX card as the main card?

 

[Deleted member 74752]

I could have sworn I made the first ATI card run here, but I don't see it... Well, here is the pitiful results again...

 

[Helli]

http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/Shagula69/30fps.jpg

My i7 970 has been sent back to get fixed so using backup rig.

460s running at 860mhz, going to try at 900 soon but it crashed out last time :S

Nfi why it shows my PHYSX card as the main card?

You forgot to set Tessellation (Scale, Factor, and Distance) to 2.0

Over 30 FPS with a GTS450? No way...

Helli

 

[Radi_SVK]

Well here is mine...

 

[Deleted member 74752]

If this bench is like the earlier ones, it hates cpu frequency...lower may net you higher scores.

 

[Radi_SVK]

If this bench is like the earlier ones, it hates cpu frequency...lower may net you higher scores.

Interesting...as you can see in my rig specs,used to run my i7 920 @ 4GHz,just recently changed it for 3.6GHz..willl boot with 4GHz again and will run the bench..we will see

 

[nesco1801]

Uhmm, I guess I'm no hero.

But at least I have the fastest GTX 460 so far.

No cheating, cranked everything up to 2.0, etc etc

Suck it up i7's

 

[Deleted member 74752]

Run em again at stock cpu clocks and see what it nets.

 

[Count Shagula]

You forgot to set Tessellation (Scale, Factor, and Distance) to 2.0

Over 30 FPS with a GTS450? No way...

Helli

LOL. Nono! The 450 is my PHYSX card. Im running dual 460s. I also did set tessellation to 2.0 for all 3 as asked in 1st post.

 

[Count Shagula]

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6377/unigine2010111813501606.png

Uhmm, I guess I'm no hero.

But at least I have the fastest GTX 460 so far.

No cheating, cranked everything up to 2.0, etc etc

Suck it up i7's

Yeah this isnt about who has the fastest pc, its just a good way to compare similar systems

 

[nesco1801]

@rickss69 why would I run my poor e5200 at stock o.0

@Count Shagula yeah thats how I saw it 2x460 + physx 450

 

[Deleted member 74752]

@rickss69 why would I run my poor e5200 at stock o.0

@Count Shagula yeah thats how I saw it 2x460 + physx 450

Just from previous testing on the earlier versions of this benchmark I found that higher cpu frequencies more often than not hurt scores. There seems to be a sweet spot for each cpu.

 

[Count Shagula]

Just from previous testing on the earlier versions of this benchmark I found that higher cpu frequencies more often than not hurt scores. There seems to be a sweet spot for each cpu.

Yeah i was wondering about that... I tried running my i7 920 form 3.2 to 3.8 (My normal CPU is RMA due to issues so using backup rig)(I havent used that CPU in a while so i was working my way up) And i got the highest score 30.6 with it at 3.4ghz... I was only getting 30.3 - 30.4 at 3.8ghz... Also the score did seem to vary on different runs with same settings. Maybe its due to VGA ram usage? I noticed that afterburner was telling me i was using over 1gig VGA ram in some parts...