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While this topic was going on I pulled the minimums from my log files for the main benchmarks I ran for my 5770 bottlenecking article.

From the 5 games I have minimums for, all of them show the same trends with their minimums as they do with their averages.

That is to say, when the core affects the average the most, it also affects the minimum the most, and vice versa. This debunks Azn’s stance where he claimed the core can’t affect the minimum more than bandwidth can.

Well I guess that puts to rest the idea of memory bandwidth being a bottleneck on the resolutions/detail settings and AA/AF you tested.

What about Eyefinity resolutions? Could memory bandwidth become a limitation there to the point minimums are affected?
 
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While this topic was going on I pulled the minimums from my log files for the main benchmarks I ran for my 5770 bottlenecking article.

From the 5 games I have minimums for, all of them show the same trends with their minimums as they do with their averages.

That is to say, when the core affects the average the most, it also affects the minimum the most, and vice versa. This debunks Azn’s stance where he claimed the core can’t affect the minimum more than bandwidth can.

When 5 out 9 tested games confirm the averages with their minimums, I think it’s inductively reasonable to assume all of them will show the same trend given we haven’t seen evidence to the contrary.

I’m not posting them until Azn admits he’ll retract his claims when I do so, because I can just see he’ll ignore them and I’ll be wasting my time yet again.

And what cards did you compare it too?

If 5770 is already getting 30fps minimum and you drop the bandwidth you get correlation to how the 5770 behaves. Same thing for GTX260 or Rv770. The correct way to test it is if you overclocked your 5770 memory to match 4890 then tested how more bandwidth effects minimum frame rates.

Xbit already done benchmarks on the 5770 vs GTX260/4890 doing just that and shows minimum fps isn't anywhere near GTX260 or 4890.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_8.html#sect0

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_7.html#sect1

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_12.html#sect2

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_9.html#sect2

I love how you love to point fingers but you should test it properly and compare to cards to get a correct assessment what was asked., Oh BTW did you retract your SP theory with your ultra 2 years ago or did you deny the whole thing?
 

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What are you talking about? In that specific link (that specific page), the minimum FPS is usually pretty similar, relatively. The only time it's worse is when the card performs worse overall. As you've even said, Nvidia and ATI cards have different performance levels on different games...it's just a direct correlation. Plus, when the minimum FPS is about the same or higher than the other cards, the avg FPS is usually higher...meaning it spends less time hitting a minimum FPS. That's just basic math.

Since the min FPS doesn't seem to be drastically different and/or outside of expected ranges (relatively), you're basically just shooting yourself in the foot.

Let's compare 5770 to 4890 as the both have same core clocks. @ 1920x1200 4xAA 4890 is 19% faster in average frame rates. When you compare minimum frame rates 4890 is 35% faster. Do you not see the discrepancy between average and minimum?

If what BFG said is true they should be getting similar results in average and minimum fps differences but it is not.
 

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And what cards did you compare it too?

If 5770 is already getting 30fps minimum and you drop the bandwidth you get correlation to how the 5770 behaves. Same thing for GTX260 or Rv770. The correct way to test it is if you overclocked your 5770 memory to match 4890 then tested how more bandwidth effects minimum frame rates.

Xbit already done benchmarks on the 5770 vs GTX260/4890 doing just that and shows minimum fps isn't anywhere near GTX260 or 4890.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_8.html#sect0

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_7.html#sect1

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_12.html#sect2

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_9.html#sect2

I love how you love to point fingers but you should test it properly and compare to cards to get a correct assessment what was asked., Oh BTW did you retract your SP theory with your ultra 2 years ago or did you deny the whole thing?

Overclocking HD5xxxx memory bandwidth is not a good way to compare these cards.

The HD5xxxx has some type of error correction that makes allows deceptively high overclocks but little in the way of performance gain. (something about the controller having to retransmit errors is the reason this happens)

Besides that couldn't there by a difference in latencies?
 

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Azn, you have yet to respond to the 7 pages of memory overclocking done properly in my post. They also made sure not to run into the error correction hardware in the 5 series.

None of us are going to talk to you when you ignore all of our points and then respond to what you feel like with absolutely no evidence. The xbitlabs article helps us and until you respond to my link, I too will not respond.
 

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Let's compare 5770 to 4890 as the both have same core clocks. @ 1920x1200 4xAA 4890 is 19% faster in average frame rates. When you compare minimum frame rates 4890 is 35% faster. Do you not see the discrepancy between average and minimum?

If what BFG said is true they should be getting similar results in average and minimum fps differences but it is not.

What about the games where the 5770 is nearly the same as or faster min and avg compared to the 4890 across all resolutions (mostly OCed, but sometimes stock)? They're both ATI cards, and you've claimed the 5xxx series is just a slightly modified 4xxx series. Therefore, it doesn't make any sense that some games would favor the 5770 more than some others. Yes, I know it might only be one or two games in the article, but it still stands that this is weird behavior. I don't think you can explain THAT away with memory bandwidth.

On top of that, you're ignoring what everyone else is saying regarding OCing the core vs memory on the 5770. The results show it's not memory bandwidth limited. You don't need another card to test this! And you have yet to answer BFG's question about redoing his tests with minimum FPS included. Are you afraid of being wrong? Because you're sure acting like it.
 

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It’s sometimes slower than a 4850, and sometimes faster than a GTX285, and you want proof the drivers need work? Are you for real?

4850 also perform faster than GTX285 in 1 or 2 games so does mean drivers need work?


Scheduling, caches, interpolators, raster setup, etc. There are a plethora of reasons that are elementary to someone with even the most basic understanding of 3D architecture. But I wouldn’t expect anything different from someone who has claimed in the past that bandwidth is the only thing that can affect fillrate.

LOL> So cypress that has upgraded core with more cache, unchanged raster setup, etc over RV770 has problems with scheduling , caches, interpolators, raster setup? Then a card with weaker 4870x2 core somehow beats the better cypress core that is clocked higher with more memory bandwidth?

And what is up with your personal references? Here I thought you've changed since you became a mod but I guess not. :p


Except oh, I don’t know, that fact that it has several different architectural traits, and isn’t even multi-GPU. But aside from that yeah, the two are exactly the same. :rolleyes:

Like? more cache? multi-GPU setup that is also weaker than a single card setup?


It’s a nonsensically theoretical example that is your modus operandi whenever real evidence is presented to you that disproves your fictitious ideas. Synthetic fillrate tests mean nothing because games don’t work like that. We’ve been over this before repeatedly.

To discount real games tested with memory clocks in favor of 3DMark fillrate tests is comical beyond belief, and reveals a sorely lacking understanding of reality.

But then again 3dmark is based on a REAL game engine. Now if 5870 somehow manages to beat 4870x2 I would discount this test.


No it doesn’t, because it has absolutely nothing to do with what I stated. If the scheduler isn’t using the extra shaders then bandwidth means squat to that equation.

So a scheduler somehow better on the RV770 with lower cache vs cypress?


Please stop pretending like you know what you’re talking about when you don’t.

What's with your constant personal references? Do I keep telling you don't know what you are talking about? Either talk about what was quoted or don't reply with personal insults. can you do that?


No, I’m claiming a lot more than that. Again it’s obvious you never read the benchmarks or understood them, you just keep waving around worthless 3DMark tests.

And what the hell are you trying to claim anyway? You keep saying drivers but there's no proof. While there are plenty of examples of bandwidth making difference in case of 4870x2 vs 5870, 5770 vs 4890 and so forth.

So you accept a single minimum point that could’ve from anywhere as accurate, but you dismiss an entire benchmark run because “it’s all over the place”?

If an entire benchmark run is all “over the place”, where do you think a single minimum will be, hmm? You do realize that a minimum is contained inside that run, right?

This concept has been repeated to you several times by several people, yet you still don’t appear to comprehend it. This is elementary to someone with the most basic understanding of science and statistics.

Quite frankly lot of the graphs were done without AA. NFS is another game that is also shader intensive which has an edge on the 5770 as its shader has more caches with upgraded prefetching abilities. Hardocp had a track records of not eliminating margin of errors with their FRAP testing procedures. As I've seen in their reviews a faster card would get lower minimum fps vs a slower card within the same architecture like GTX260 vs GTX280.

Is it a waste of time because you say so, or because the results back your beliefs?

It's obvious to someone who has done lot of testing.

The fact is, you either accept all of my results or you accept none of them. For you to accept the 8800 Ultra’s results and then around and discount the 5770’s results because they use averages (like the 8800’s) highlights your biased agenda.

I don't have to accept all of your results but I can agree with some as different cards behave differently to your method of testing. That's must be it I have a biased agenda! :rolleyes:


And? This is yet again apples vs oranges. We’re talking about the 5770 being held by drivers. What relevance does the 8800 Ultra have? It’s like the others say: you constantly chop and change all over the place in the hopes that people won’t notice you’re pretending to know what you’re talking about.

I wouldn't call apples vs oranges now. It's more like oranges vs tangerines. It's relevant because fillrate corresponds with bandwidth all cards to date.

Again with your personal insults. Perhaps you should give up your patrol badge to your superior ranking officer.


This doesn’t even appear to address what I posted. If you don’t want to address what was posted then don’t quote it.

Of course it does you claimed drivers worked differently on RV770 vs Cypress. i'm telling you that all ATI had to do was change only few numbers to get same optimization as RV770. It's no different with Nvidia when G92 came about. you weren't doubting drivers then but why now?

Explain to us what this means in your own words, citing specific and technical examples. Then explain how it’s relevant to anything we’re discussing right now.

I'm sorry but my english is not as good as you but I will try to explain. Cypress has precision enhanced to already their double precision math. It also supports fused multiply add instructions which benefit single precision applications. Inter process communication cache has doubled as well as data share 4x the cache of RV770.

It isn’t doubled. Claiming it’s doubled is no different to claiming my E6850 is a 6 GHz processor because I have two cores running at 3 GHz.

While AFR works on the frames independently, the bandwidth isn’t shared between cards because the cards don’t share frames. That is to say, each frame only has the bandwidth that a single card can allocate to it.

That and due to inter-GPU dependencies you’ll have duplicate memory reads and writes that aren’t present on a single card, thus reducing bandwidth further.

Perhaps it's the wrong word to use. But you do get 2 256bit when you add it up it's double the 256bit. Now I never implied bandwidth was shared between cards while these guys with 3 posts said it does like a raid array.


And yet you couldn’t tell me that the GTX260+ was a balanced part, and that the core is the 5770’s primary limitation. Oh that’s right, you ignore those results because they didn’t fit into your imaginary reality.

GTX260+ is a bandwidth saturated card. Core can't be limited as a card is based on a set core. Either it can be saturated or bandwidth limited. In case of 5770 it's bandwidth limited to a degree as more bandwidth would give much better results as shown in real benchmarks like 4890.


Again, the conceptual flaw of a single data point has been explained to you repeatedly. I suggest consulting a basic statistics textbook and reading up further on the issue.

Which I've also repeatedly explained to you as well.

Imagine – you do that a lot. Either put up legitimate benchmark runs or retract your claims. You imagining something is not evidence.

You might imagine but it's reality where I'm sitting as I've done tests after tests to come up with the conclusion as xbit benchmarks only reinforce what I've been saying.

I’ve never cared about public opinion and I was arguing the same thing before those other guys came here.

Which is that SP made biggest difference in games only to be corrected.


It’s cute how you continue to spread misinformation and pretend to know what you’re talking about while playing the innocent victim (“multiple accounts, they’re out to get me!”).

Again with the personal referendum.


I bet you never considered that those accounts are in fact several people like myself that can see the holes in your arguments.

Holes with proof and benchmarks to back them up I suppose.
 

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Overclocking HD5xxxx memory bandwidth is not a good way to compare these cards.

The HD5xxxx has some type of error correction that makes allows deceptively high overclocks but little in the way of performance gain. (something about the controller having to retransmit errors is the reason this happens)

Besides that couldn't there by a difference in latencies?

Why when we are trying to find out if drivers is the cause or bandwidth that is limiting vs rv770.
 

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And what cards did you compare it too?
Why do we need to compare it to other cards? The contention is that the 5770’s bandwidth limits it, so we only change the bandwidth and see what impact it has.

What part of this are you having trouble understanding?

Why do we need to compare the 5770 to oranges to talk about its bandwidth?

Again you continue to discuss irrelevant material just to mask you don’t know what you’re talking about.

If 5770 is already getting 30fps minimum and you drop the bandwidth you get correlation to how the 5770 behaves. Same thing for GTX260 or Rv770. The correct way to test it is if you overclocked your 5770 memory to match 4890 then tested how more bandwidth effects minimum frame rates.
Again, do you understand the concept that if we think the 5770 is limited by bandwidth, we only change the bandwidth and observe the effect?

Are you familiar with even the most basic fundamentals of forming a hypothesis and testing it?
Oh BTW did you retract your SP theory with your ultra 2 years ago or did you deny the whole thing?
Did you retract your claims that the 5770 isn’t primarily limited by bandwidth?

Did you retract you claims that the core doesn’t affect minimums as much as the memory?

Did you retract you claims that an average doesn’t correlate to a minimum?

Did you also admit that the GTX260+ is a balanced part?

Because you were wrong in all four parts, yet you continue to troll and post irrelevant rhetoric to mask it. You also ignore actual evidence that disproves you and continue to post nonsensical data which isn’t even related to the issue.
 

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Azn, you have yet to respond to the 7 pages of memory overclocking done properly in my post. They also made sure not to run into the error correction hardware in the 5 series.

None of us are going to talk to you when you ignore all of our points and then respond to what you feel like with absolutely no evidence. The xbitlabs article helps us and until you respond to my link, I too will not respond.

Which I've already answered you repeatedly. I never claimed 5x00 was unbalanced card. What I did claim was that bandwidth makes dramatic difference in minimum frames and no so much on average frame rates with 5x00 cards with the tests shown by xbit. either come up with minimum fps and proper testing procedures or don't come to me at all. I don't care for your responses.
 

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Why do we need to compare it to other cards? The contention is that the 5770’s bandwidth limits it, so we only change the bandwidth and see what impact it has.

What part of this are you having trouble understanding?

Why do we need to compare the 5770 to oranges to talk about its bandwidth?

Because 5770 gets lower minimum fps with lower bandwidth compared to cards before it as shown by xbit benches.

I'm' not having any trouble understand! You just need to come up with things that are relevant to what was discussed.


Again you continue to discuss irrelevant material just to mask you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I ask you a simple question I get personal insults. Thank you!


Again, do you understand the concept that if we think the 5770 is limited by bandwidth, we only change the bandwidth and observe the effect?

Are you familiar with even the most basic fundamentals of forming a hypothesis and testing it?

This is where I have a problems with your procedures. You automatically assume every video card will react to the same methods of testing. You are asking the wrong questions to get the answer.


Did you retract your claims that the 5770 isn’t primarily limited by bandwidth?

Did you retract you claims that the core doesn’t affect minimums as much as the memory?

Did you retract you claims that an average doesn’t correlate to a minimum?

Did you also admit that the GTX260+ is a balanced part?

You are asking questions with a question. Can you answer the original question?

As for your questions I will answer them...

I never implied 5770 isn't primarily limited by bandwidth but to come up with conclusion by looking at average frame rates is the problem I have with then you blaming drivers why it doesn't perform fast as cards before it.

Because you were wrong in all four parts, yet you continue to troll and post irrelevant rhetoric to mask it. You also ignore actual evidence that disproves you and continue to post nonsensical data which isn’t even related to the issue.

That's quite an accusation. Anyone who doesn't agree with you is a troll I suppose. I have data and benchmarks to back it up. you in the other hand blame drivers because some hardware sites you liked said so.
 

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sorry but I think AzN is sort of right about this. I mean the only difference on paper between the 4890 and the 5770 is the memory bandwidth yet the 4890 easily beats it most reviews. just look at this hardwarecanucks 5770 review. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-11.html

in the few cases like Far Cry 2(DX9) where the 5770 can even match the 4890 in average framerate it still gets raped in minimums. "Once again, the HD 5770 1GB provides some eye-opening performance and beats the GTX 260 216 in every test and even comes close to the HD 4890 in a few instances. However, the minimum framerates tell a bit different story." http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-15.html

if its not the bandwidth than the 5xxx series must have completely screwed up everything else which isnt likely. I mean what other explanation is it when ALL of the other performance factors except for memory bandwidth are identical???
 
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What I did claim was that bandwidth makes dramatic difference in minimum frames and no so much on average frame rates with 5x00 cards with the tests shown by xbit.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_8.html#sect0

Well actually according to those tests even hd5750 is gaining average frame rate purely with a memory overclock.

If 720 stream processors can make gains from the error correcting hd5xxxx memory controller I wonder how well it could do with faster stock speed GDD5 or 256 bit memory bus.
 

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4850 also perform faster than GTX285 in 1 or 2 games so does mean drivers need work?
Yes, some games still need work. Some games are far slower than they should be on the 4850 too. I’ve known this for months actually.

It’s not like I need to guess this given I submitted an extensive bug report to Terry Makedon (ATi’s Catalyst Maker). Anyone that has spent any reasonable time with the 5770 can clearly see performance is all over the place and isn’t as consistent as it should be, especially with super-sampling.

But then this requires analysis beyond 3DMark fillrate tests from Tech-Report, LOL.

LOL> So cypress that has upgraded core with more cache, unchanged raster setup, etc over RV770 has problems with scheduling , caches, interpolators, raster setup? Then a card with weaker 4870x2 core somehow beats the better cypress core that is clocked higher with more memory bandwidth?
Again, the 5xxx series has changes to the hardware over the 4xxx.

Like? more cache? multi-GPU setup that is also weaker than a single card setup?
When you type responses, can you please actually make sure they make sense and are related to what you quote? Posting some cryptically irrelevant response doesn’t make you look clever.

But then again 3dmark is based on a REAL game engine.
Not the fillrate test, which is synthetic by nature. No game operates like a fillrate test because otherwise it wouldn’t be a fillrate test.
So a scheduler somehow better on the RV770 with lower cache vs cypress?
No, the scheduler could be different and hence requires different driver optimization to get optimal performance from it.

And what the hell are you trying to claim anyway? You keep saying drivers but there's no proof.
Actually there’s plenty of proof. Like I said, I submitted an extensive bug report to Terry Makedon detailing my findings with evidence to back my claims. What tests have you run on the 5770 to conclude the drivers are 100% optimal, Azn?

I’ve provided evidence that the drivers need work. You claim they don’t, now provide evidence. Put up or retract your claims.
While there are plenty of examples of bandwidth making difference in case of 4870x2 vs 5870, 5770 vs 4890 and so forth.
Again, we’re talking about the effect of bandwidth on the 5770. Not the effect of apples with oranges.
Quite frankly lot of the graphs were done without AA. NFS is another game that is also shader intensive which has an edge on the 5770 as its shader has more caches with upgraded prefetching abilities.
Again I’ll ask for you to explain pre-fetching in your own words, and describe how it correlates to the specific issue of the 5770’s memory bandwidth.

Using big words doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about.
Hardocp had a track records of not eliminating margin of errors with their FRAP testing procedures.
Describe to us in your own words how to eliminate the margin of error in their graphs.

Now describe in your own words how to do it to a single minimum data point – the same data point you advocate as the end-all of performance - which doesn’t even have a graph plot putting it into context.

It's obvious to someone who has done lot of testing.
LMFAO.

I don't have to accept all of your results but I can agree with some as different cards behave differently to your method of testing. That's must be it I have a biased agenda!
You accept the 8800’s results because they back your claims. You don’t accept the others because they don’t, despite the methodology being the same. The problem isn’t the benchmarks here, it’s the person looking at them and refusing to believe reality.

It's relevant because fillrate corresponds with bandwidth all cards to date.
Again, if we want to see the effect of bandwidth on the 5770, we test the 5770 with changed bandwidth. We don’t check the 4870X2 for 3DMark fillrate tests from Tech-Report, LOL.
i'm telling you that all ATI had to do was change only few numbers to get same optimization as RV770.
Please provide evidence of your claims, or retract them. Code snippets from the driver code and/or commentary from the developer stating the drivers are completely optimal will suffice.
It's no different with Nvidia when G92 came about. you weren't doubting drivers then but why now?
Actually it’s very different, and someone with a basic understanding of the architecture would understand why, as would someone who has actually used the card in comparison to a 4850.

Cypress has precision enhanced to already their double precision math. It also supports fused multiply add instructions which benefit single precision applications. Inter process communication cache has doubled as well as data share 4x the cache of RV770.
This has what to do with memory bandwidth?

Perhaps it's the wrong word to use. But you do get 2 256bit when you add it up it's double the 256bit. Now I never implied bandwidth was shared between cards while these guys with 3 posts said it does like a raid array.
You don’t add it up like that, otherwise my E6850 is a 6 GHz processor. While the aggregate bandwidth may be more than a single card’s somewhat, the same applies to the core/shader too. Since both go up proportionally, if you’re claiming one card is limited by bandwidth then two cards must limited by bandwidth in the same way.

Again, it’s been repeatedly pointed out to you that the 5770 has the same SP/bandwidth ratio as the 5870.

GTX260+ is a bandwidth saturated card. Core can't be limited as a card is based on a set core. Either it can be saturated or bandwidth limited. In case of 5770 it's bandwidth limited to a degree as more bandwidth would give much better results as shown in real benchmarks like 4890.
Yet again I see random English words that don’t appear to answer the simple question I asked.

Answer the question Azn: do you accept my GTX260+’s findings that showed the part is balanced, findings that had the same methodology as the 8800’s, which you agreed with?

This is a very simple question so please answer it, and stop trolling.

Which I've also repeatedly explained to you as well.
Your explanation is wrong. Again, a fundamental statistics book may point you in the right direction.

You might imagine but it's reality where I'm sitting as I've done tests after tests to come up with the conclusion as xbit benchmarks only reinforce what I've been saying.
What 5770 test have you run, exactly?

What 5770 driver analysis have you done to conclude the drivers are 100% optimal, exactly?

How much time have you spent gaming on the 5770, exactly?

Which is that SP made biggest difference in games only to be corrected.
I’m still waiting for retractions from you that:

1. The 5770 isn’t primarily limited by bandwidth.
2. The core doesn’t affect minimums as much as the memory.
3. An average doesn’t correlate to a minimum.
4. The GTX260+ is a balanced part.

Your arguments were wrong on all four counts, so please retract them.
Again with the personal referendum.
Calling out your arguments is not personal.

Holes with proof and benchmarks to back them up I suppose.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. We’ve shown you the results and explained them to you, but we can’t do anything if you refuse to accept them.
 

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I’m still waiting for retractions from you that:

1. The 5770 isn’t primarily limited by bandwidth.
2. The core doesn’t affect minimums as much as the memory.
3. An average doesn’t correlate to a minimum.
4. The GTX260+ is a balanced part.

What do you say about the xbit lab reports he posted.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_8.html#sect0

I'm actually suprised myself hd5750 was making gains from purely memory overclock with the error correcting controller.
 
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Because 5770 gets lower minimum fps with lower bandwidth compared to cards before it as shown by xbit benches.
Which again could be because of hardware changes and/or because of drivers. If you change so many variables in addition to memory you absolutely cannot infer memory is automatically the cause.

This is where I have a problems with your procedures. You automatically assume every video card will react to the same methods of testing. You are asking the wrong questions to get the answer.
So now what are you saying exactly?

That changing the bandwidth on a 5770 can’t be used to infer the effect of said bandwidth, but it’s okay to do it with an 8800 Ultra?

Meanwhile what, a 3DMark synthetic fillrate test of the 4870X2 automatically pinpoints the 5770 has a problem with bandwidth? :rolleyes:

LMFAO.

Please, stop it. This is comical beyond belief.

I never implied 5770 isn't primarily limited by bandwidth but to come up with conclusion by looking at average frame rates is the problem I have with then you blaming drivers why it doesn't perform fast as cards before it.
So you admit the core is the primary limitation like I said all along?

Yes or no?

I have data and benchmarks to back it up. you in the other hand blame drivers because some hardware sites you liked said so.
The “evidence” you provide cannot be used to infer your statements.
 

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What do you say about the xbit lab reports he posted.

I'm actually suprised myself hd5750 was making gains from purely memory overclock with the error correcting controller.
It looks like they increased the core by the same overclock. There are too many variables to infer which is making the bigger impact.

Again I never claimed more bandwidth won’t make any difference, I simply stated that I don’t believe it’s the primary bottleneck, and I believe it’s the drivers holding back performance at the moment.
 

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sorry but I think AzN is sort of right about this. I mean the only difference on paper between the 4890 and the 5770 is the memory bandwidth yet the 4890 easily beats it most reviews. just look at this hardwarecanucks 5770 review. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-11.html

in the few cases like Far Cry 2(DX9) where the 5770 can even match the 4890 in average framerate it still gets raped in minimums. "Once again, the HD 5770 1GB provides some eye-opening performance and beats the GTX 260 216 in every test and even comes close to the HD 4890 in a few instances. However, the minimum framerates tell a bit different story." http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-15.html

if its not the bandwidth than the 5xxx series must have completely screwed up everything else which isnt likely. I mean what other explanation is it when ALL of the other performance factors except for memory bandwidth are identical???

*beats head against wall*

Let me explain this once and for all.

The comparison between the 4890 and 5770 doesn't in any way shape or form demonstrate that memory bandwidth is the issue behind the lower minimum fps of the 5770 compared to the 4890.

All it does is show you that clearly something is different, which from that example, COULD be memory bandwidth.

So, having posited that the 5770 is memory bandwidth limited, you then test the theory (just like BFG did), by changing first core, then memory speeds, and observing the impact on fps.

If the 5770 was primarily bandwidth limited, you would expect that the results of that testing would show that changes to core speed had relatively limited impact, while memory speed changes had a significant impact (so if the 5770 was extremely memory bandwidth limited, you would expect performance to fall away in very close correlation to reductions in memory speed, while you would see more limited reductions in FPS from core speed reductions).

BFG found that there was a greater change in FPS (both min and avg) for a change in core speed than for a change in memory speed.

This means that the 5770 is more limited by its core than its memory bandwidth. No ifs, no buts, it is that simple. The theory that the 5770 is entirely or even primarily memory bandwidth limited has been disproven by that test.

What that doesn't explain is where the bottleneck or issue lies, but we know that there have been significant architectural changes to the core from 4XXX. There could be a hardware bottleneck anywhere in those changes and changed interconnects, or there could simply be a driver issue that is creating the bottleneck by not most efficently using the architecture.

*cries*
 

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sorry but I think AzN is sort of right about this. I mean the only difference on paper between the 4890 and the 5770 is the memory bandwidth yet the 4890 easily beats it most reviews. just look at this hardwarecanucks 5770 review. http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-11.html

in the few cases like Far Cry 2(DX9) where the 5770 can even match the 4890 in average framerate it still gets raped in minimums. "Once again, the HD 5770 1GB provides some eye-opening performance and beats the GTX 260 216 in every test and even comes close to the HD 4890 in a few instances. However, the minimum framerates tell a bit different story." http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...4-xfx-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr5-review-15.html

if its not the bandwidth than the 5xxx series must have completely screwed up everything else which isnt likely. I mean what other explanation is it when ALL of the other performance factors except for memory bandwidth are identical???

In the link AzN posted, there are times where the 5770 is nearly the same as the 4890. I believe it was STALKER where the 5770 was actually faster overall (min and avg). So, you have these weird "hiccups", instead of the 5770 being consistently slower than the 4890.

On top of that, BFG has run tests showing that it might not be memory bandwidth holding the card back. The 5xxx series has at least some new architecture compared to the 4xxx series. The latest drivers for them aren't even entirely stable based on my experiences (though I've not heard of issues with them and the 4xxx series). Plus, it's just been a trend where ATI and Nvidia both release drivers down the road that boost performance for a specific series of their cards.

Though memory bandwidth is an entirely plausible/possible reason for all this, I think closer inspection shows it might not be just that. I was perfectly willing to accept it was just the bandwidth when I bought the card. I knew that when I bought it. After reading all of this, it makes sense that it might actually be drivers to some degree. I'm not waiting for some "miracle" driver for my 5770. But, hey, it's cool if it happens.
 

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What do you say about the xbit lab reports he posted.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5770-hd5750_8.html#sect0

I'm actually suprised myself hd5750 was making gains from purely memory overclock with the error correcting controller.

The error correction only happens if something isn't stable. If you increase the voltage, it fixes the issue. Some of the 5xxx cards OC really well on stock voltage. Some don't. It's like any other video card.
 

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It looks like they increased the core by the same overclock. There are too many variables to infer which is making the bigger impact.

Again I never claimed more bandwidth won’t make any difference, I simply stated that I don’t believe it’s the primary bottleneck, and I believe it’s the drivers holding back performance at the moment.

I was just suprised because hd5750 GPU overclocked to 870 Mhz is equal to hd5770 with 783 Mhz on its core.

Yet the hd5750 OC gets higher FPS than stock hd5770 despite 8% weaker core.

Just wondering what is your basis for believing this is primarily a driver issue? Sorry if you have already mentioned your reason (unfortunately I haven't read the entire thread)
 

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BFG found that there was a greater change in FPS (both min and avg) for a change in core speed than for a change in memory speed.

I thought he found they were pretty well balanced. If Core resulted in greater change it wasn't by very much (if I recall correctly).

This makes sense because in the Anandtech hd4890 Overclocking review only very small gains resulted from overclocking memory. But the gains were still there.
 

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*beats head against wall*

Let me explain this once and for all.

The comparison between the 4890 and 5770 doesn't in any way shape or form demonstrate that memory bandwidth is the issue behind the lower minimum fps of the 5770 compared to the 4890.

All it does is show you that clearly something is different, which from that example, COULD be memory bandwidth.

So, having posited that the 5770 is memory bandwidth limited, you then test the theory (just like BFG did), by changing first core, then memory speeds, and observing the impact on fps.

If the 5770 was primarily bandwidth limited, you would expect that the results of that testing would show that changes to core speed had relatively limited impact, while memory speed changes had a significant impact (so if the 5770 was extremely memory bandwidth limited, you would expect performance to fall away in very close correlation to reductions in memory speed, while you would see more limited reductions in FPS from core speed reductions).

BFG found that there was a greater change in FPS (both min and avg) for a change in core speed than for a change in memory speed.

This means that the 5770 is more limited by its core than its memory bandwidth. No ifs, no buts, it is that simple. The theory that the 5770 is entirely or even primarily memory bandwidth limited has been disproven by that test.

What that doesn't explain is where the bottleneck or issue lies, but we know that there have been significant architectural changes to the core from 4XXX. There could be a hardware bottleneck anywhere in those changes and changed interconnects, or there could simply be a driver issue that is creating the bottleneck by not most efficently using the architecture.

*cries*
in that that hardwarecanucks.com review it gets its ass handed to it by the 4890 which has the identical performance specs except for the memory bandwidth. so if the memory bandwidth isnt the problem like you and bfg claim then the 5770 architecture completely sucks.
 
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in that that hardwarecanucks.com review it gets its ass handed to it by the 4890 which has the identical performance specs except for the memory bandwidth. so if the memory bandwidth isnt the problem like you and bfg claim then the 5770 architecture completely sucks then.

Good point.

Then we need to ask ourselves is there anything about Hd5xxx architecture that compensates for weaker bandwidth?