5870 QUADFIRE user video!!

Bodar · Oct 26, 2009

Check it out guys!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCj4r2Gskqw

mlee49 · Oct 26, 2009

Meh runs at 1024x768... lame. He should max it all out and got big or go home!

Edit, watched a few more seconds and see more resolutions benchmarked.

AphexDreamer · Oct 26, 2009

It still rapes.

Bodar · Oct 26, 2009

Yeah.. I did all resolutions with heaven.. up to 6144 x 1152 with eyefinity.. Also the other benchies as well..

Thanks!

Velvet Wafer · Oct 26, 2009

big LOL. it doesnt even scale after the third. bad driver^^
ATI was fast with their cards, but not with their programming.
but so far, the results are very pleasing for me

i look into the 5850 beeing available for me.

SonDa5 · Oct 26, 2009

Sweet RIG.

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

A real treat for everyone here at TPU, thanks a lot for your effort in compiling the data into video.

A Cheese Danish · Oct 26, 2009

Damn dude! Very awesome! Can't wait to get my hands on that kind of components!
The last one was just lol

wiak · Oct 26, 2009

Velvet Wafer said:
big LOL. it doesnt even scale after the third. bad driver^^
ATI was fast with their cards, but not with their programming.
but so far, the results are very pleasing for me
i look into the 5850 beeing available for me.

more like a CPU bottleneck :laugh:

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

wiak said:
more like a CPU bottleneck

stick to facts, drivers are extremely premature and his CPU is beefy enough to handle that setup. :shadedshu

Corrosion · Oct 26, 2009

Binge said:
stick to facts, drivers are extremely premature and his CPU is beefy enough to handle that setup. :shadedshu

i7 is able to handle QUAD 5870s? dont think so.

1Kurgan1 · Oct 26, 2009

Amazing setup you have Bodar, that Heaven bench score is just unreal.

Its nice to see that in a lot of games going to a 3rd card actually scales well and sometimes better than the jump to 2 cards, 4 seems to be the line though.

MilkyWay · Oct 26, 2009

jealous

wolf · Oct 26, 2009

mmmm awesome video dude thanks for sharing, and its nice to see trifire starting to get ahead a bit, however its pretty obvious 2 cards is the sweet-spot.

Still, TPU isn't about the sweet-spot, TPU is about the most shit-hot setups, and boy you got one :toast:

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

Corrosion said:
i7 is able to handle QUAD 5870s? dont think so.

an i7 975 @ 4.5GHz has more than enough bandwidth

niko084 · Oct 26, 2009

Binge said:
an i7 975 @ 4.5GHz has more than enough bandwidth

I am tempted to agree with that statement...
You shouldn't be noticing any cpu limitation especially on a graphics benchmark with that kinda cpu at that kinda clock..

I wouldn't expect to see a hard limitation like that on my cpu at it's current clock.

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

If people think I'm full of sh!t they can just look at how an i7 can handle as many nVidia cards in SLI as are available with at least some gain while the 4870x2+4870 had extremely similar numbers to 2x4870x2.

Scrizz · Oct 26, 2009

4.7 isn't enough need 6

niko084 · Oct 26, 2009

Binge said:
If people think I'm full of sh!t they can just look at how an i7 can handle as many nVidia cards in SLI as are available with at least some gain while the 4870x2+4870 had extremely similar numbers to 2x4870x2.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2009/02/CF_SLI_CrysisWarhead_1920_4x.png

Well that about sums it up nicely!

I didn't think it would be an issue, but now I know without a doubt.

kid41212003 · Oct 26, 2009

Binge said:
If people think I'm full of sh!t they can just look at how an i7 can handle as many nVidia cards in SLI as are available with at least some gain while the 4870x2+4870 had extremely similar numbers to 2x4870x2.

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2009/02/CF_SLI_CrysisWarhead_1920_4x.png

Bottlenecked and pre-mature driver are the problem... for quad-setup

http://www.hardware.info/forum/showthread.php?t=201199

Core i9 with quad-sli ... going from 3.5GHz to 4.7GHz give him over ~15FPS (~15%) in Vantage GPU test...

And everyone knows Vantage doesn't depend much on CPU (very well optimized for multi-threads).

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

I have to stop you right there... You are right that drivers are the issue here, but scaling like what we're seeing in the 5870s is not because of a CPU bottleneck. The OP is running his 975 at 4.5+GHz, and I know you've owned an i7. What happens when you raise the BCLK? You also raise the dram frequency! Everything gets faster. Higher QPI and more uncore probabaly did more than the increase in cpu frequency.

There was a Gigabyte overclocking competition and Fugger was the winner of the competition with dual overclocked 295s and an overclock of the i7 extreme at 4.3GHz. That was it, and other teams had worse results with higher OCs. One thing he did was increase the uncore more than he had to. Small tweaks like that change vantage scores more than you have tried to experience.

Earlier I posted a gaming benchmark because unlike vantage... most games get shafted when it comes to support in crossfire. This is most definitely a driver issue and that was the reason I posted that benchmark. Here's another bench. By the way... these tests are not done with immature drivers. These benchmarks were done well after the 4870x2s had been on the market... wow scaling

1Kurgan1 · Oct 26, 2009

Those links are all broken now

I want to see

Binge · Oct 26, 2009

reposting for anyone who couldn't see:

REVHEAD · Oct 26, 2009

These are 2 more vids, Trubritar FTW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKQVqcHRos4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRwzqvumvQE&feature=channel

Bodar · Oct 26, 2009

That first resident evil bench is good, but you need to really let the cpu fly at max overclocked settings to really see these gpu's scale. Although that was an average of 250 fps..
Still overclocking the cpu to 4.72ghz really helped re5 reach 280. I love trubritar lots, but for the current tech, you need as much cpu power as possible to scale these cards. cheers you guys!!

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5870 QUADFIRE user video!!

Bodar

New Member

mlee49

AphexDreamer

Bodar

New Member

Velvet Wafer

SonDa5

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

A Cheese Danish

wiak

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

Corrosion

New Member

1Kurgan1

The Knife in your Back

MilkyWay

wolf

Performance Enthusiast

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

niko084

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

Scrizz

niko084

kid41212003

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

1Kurgan1

The Knife in your Back

Binge

Overclocking Surrealism

REVHEAD

New Member

Bodar

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