gtx 970 benchmarking: only 25 fps on furmark 1080p 8x anti aliasing?

[rtwjunkie]

There is also Unigine Valley you can use in addition to Heaven. To compare results, the thread here is on TPU as well: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/unigine-valley-benchmark-scores.183712/

Really though, the most demanding testing of your GPU are going to be the most graphically intensive games you play! Why not enjoy your testing? If it doesn't crash and is getting decent frames per second for YOU, and at the visual quality that YOU are satisfied with, then it passes!

 

[eidairaman1]

Valley/Heaven. Or Games.

 

[xfia]

The FUD machine is strong with this one...

nice argument.. to bad you just pulled something out of your ass about something I couldn't find was ever said.

furmark is obviously not a real world gaming benchmark and uses a high level of tessellation.

should they just make a nubmark and stop making prime to make you happy that you can just click a start button and everything is real world tested with nothing to worry about.

if you think its fud you should talk to a engineer about all the different types of tools they need.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

nice argument.. to bad you just pulled something out of your ass about something I couldn't find was ever said.

furmark is obviously not a real world gaming benchmark and uses a high level of tessellation.

should they just make a nubmark and stop making prime to make you happy that you can just click a start button and everything is real world tested with nothing to worry about.

if you think its fud you should talk to a engineer about all the different types of tools they need.

Furmark isn't the best to be used for game benchmark and is not what it is really intended for. Using Furmark is more about finding your gpu max load temps. For people that are looking to push their cards to the limits it is good for finding that temperature threshold. It does have uses but benching for games isn't really it's strong suit. It can make faulty hardware more prone to fault. But if you are pushing your card to the limits you already assumed that risk.

Game benchmarks and current system performance you should use; 3dmark for different DX versions, unigine, or other benchmarks provided by games.

 

[xfia]

Furmark isn't the best to be used for game benchmark and is not what it is really intended for. Using Furmark is more about finding your gpu max load temps. For people that are looking to push their cards to the limits it is good for finding that temperature threshold. It does have uses but benching for games isn't really it's strong suit. It can make faulty hardware more prone to fault. But if you are pushing your card to the limits you already assumed that risk.

Game benchmarks and current system performance you should use; 3dmark for different DX versions, unigine, or other benchmarks provided by games.

thanks for some actual logic.. I wasn't trying to act like I know everything just frustrating when someone is like that.. I know furmark is another tool is shed and its a shame to see it be labeled as bad.

 

[EarthDog]

nice argument.. to bad you just pulled something out of your ass about something I couldn't find was ever said.

furmark is obviously not a real world gaming benchmark and uses a high level of tessellation.

should they just make a nubmark and stop making prime to make you happy that you can just click a start button and everything is real world tested with nothing to worry about.

if you think its fud you should talk to a engineer about all the different types of tools they need.

Let's jump in a time machine here...

You said:

any professional benchmarking tools can with the wrong level of settings for the gpu.
they are made to stress hardware and should not be used just for the fun of it.
overclocking and new build along with trouble shooting is what they are for.

I replied:

No, Xfia.. that isn't true at all. Furmark, both NVIDA and AMD came out and said not to use it... Futuremark stuff or UNigine etc, just fine. Back off the FUD.

You then kept on your same unsubstantied point(s):

yeah and tpu uses prime with haswell and the intel thermal specialist that is at toms hardware a lot says prime is fine to use. it was like one bad version and everyone's grandma says not to use prime with haswell. kombuster and many other tools have the ability to damage hardware when you don't know what your doing.

The point, Xfia, is that NVIDIA and AMD themselves said not to use Furmark it because it is a "power virus" and can damage GPUs. In the 5 and 6 series for NVIDIA, it actually used to throttle when it ran that program. So it didn't do what consumers wanted as it would throttle and put incredibly unrealistic loads, to the point of potential damage, on GPUs.

I never said it was a real world application...quite the contrary in fact.
I never mentioned anything about Prime95 being bad...the latest version is what I use and because of its AVX instructions it tends to do more stress than the previous versions. You simply need to be careful to watch temps there. Intel/AMD never came out and said not to use it like AMD/NVIDIA did. With Furmark it will can just kill the card. With P95, it won't kill the CPU. Do you see the difference?
I have/do talk to engineers, actually...

Furmark should not be used as a game benchmark (FPS). Forget the power crap. Its a hairy spinning donut. How does that translate to a game? At least in game benchmarks are actually the game and Unigine/Futuremark products are not a spinning donut and will kill your hardware.

EDIT: Here is just one source of NVIDIA stating not to use the card... that I pulled out of my ass...
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...her-stress-tests-with-geforce-graphics-cards/

Furmark is an application designed to stress the GPU by maximizing power draw well beyond any real world application or game. In some cases, this could lead to slowdown of the graphics card due to hitting over-temperature or over-current protection mechanisms. These protection mechanisms are designed to ensure the safe operation of the graphics card. Using Furmark or other applications to disable these protection mechanisms can result in permanent damage to the graphics card and void the manufacturer's warranty.

 

[qubit]

One of the first things I did when my MSI GTX 780 Ti Gaming was new was to run Furmark on it since the card is built for quietness and I wanted to stress test it.

Yes, it was super quiet as expected, but I was also surprised at how smoothly it ran it at 1080p no AA. I can't remember the FPS exactly and it's not installed now, but I think it was hitting 60-80fps which was quite impressive for such a torture test.

 

[EarthDog]

Cool story Qb... that isn't the OP settings. But that isn't what the point turned out to be in this thread anyway, LOL!

Don't use it! LOL!