4670 to 5750 on Athlon 620

[Pederv]

Last October I put a system together for my mom:
Gigabyte 770 DDR3
4GB DDR3 1600 @ 1333
Saphire 4670

It scored:
3DMark2000 - 27212
3DMark2001 - 29371
3DMark2003 - 23757
3DMark2005 - 14490
3DMark2006 - 7698

Well my daughter's system died so I upgraded her system to:
Gigabyte 770 DDR3
4GB DDR3 1600 @ 1333
Saphire 5750

It scored:
3DMark2000 - 27694
3DMark2001 - 35289
3DMark2003 - 40327
3DMark2005 - 16811
3DMark2006 - 12849

 

[happy medium]

So the 5750 upgrade gave you about 40% better gaming performance.
The Athlon II 620 does not bottleneck a 4670.

Thats what I get out of it.

 

[MarcVenice]

More like a 100% increase. If you look closely, you barely see an increase in 3DMark2000, because back then, shading wasn't important. 2003 on the other hand more or less doubled, because that one is heavily gpu-dependant and doesn't take cpu into account very much. 3DMark06 also sees a huge increase, which is completely attributable to the gpu, but there is no 100% increase because the cpu also accounts for a lot of points.

 

[Phil1977]

The 5750 has double the shading power... It is a much more capable card.

 

[evolucion8]

That's a good increase in performance considering that 3DMark06 is heavily CPU bound!!

 

[betasub]

Nice stats. But was there a question or comment, OP?

 

[RobsTV]

Those numbers fall in line with the results here after upgrading from 4830 to 5770, AMD 620 and 4 gig.

4830 (tested in WinXP)
3dm2k1se = 36952
3dmark03 = 36737
3dmark05 = 15137
3dmark06 = 10320

5770 (tested in Win7 32bit)
3dm2k1se = 30528
3dmark03 = 44654
3dmark05 = 17735
3dmark06 = 13475

Almost went with the 5750, but newegg had the 5770 on sale last week for $135 (AR) with free Dirt 2. This is used in a HTPC with 50" plasma at 1360x768, from 8ft away, so plenty of performance, plus lower heat than the 4830. Silent fan helps too. Had to change 4830 to passive cooling, while the 5770 can run with fan at 35%. Upgraded because I sold the 4830.

 

[Pederv]

Nice stats. But was there a question or comment, OP?

No, just information. In case somebody does a search.

I'll have the results from upgrading a 4800 X2 (939) from an X1900 to a 5750 tonight. I had a problem with that upgrade, dropping the 5750 into the primary PCI-E slot (on a 9npa+sli) the system wouldn't post but it did when I dropped it into the secondary PCI-E. I might have taken a performance hit because of that.

 

[betasub]

Well, thanks for the info then!

I'll be interested to see how the 5750 performs with such a venerable CPU driving it. Is the secondary PCIe1 @4x, or does that SLI board give you 16x?