7950 low unigine heaven 4.0 score?

[Face2Face]

OC'ing to 1100/1500 only nets me +1.3 FPS.

That doesn't sound right.. What are your thermals while testing? Are you seeing any throttling in GPU-Z while you are running the bench? Update your drivers and are you giving your card +20% powertune in Afterburner?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Opps... Hmmm... Balla what is your score at the same settings as OP?

I didn't run his ram speed, because of the memory hole. However at 1050/1500 I get 44 fps.


At 1200/1700 I get 49.6 fps.

OC'ing to 1100/1500 only nets me +1.3 FPS.

Are you using powertune to keep the card from throttling down or reducing usage?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Compared to WataGump your score seems fine...? unless I am looking at it wrong. Don't worry about comparing it too another model, We need more 7950's to run the bench. I am not at home so I cannot help you

OP: Update your drivers to the new Beta's and see if that does anything?

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-3WINBetaDriver.aspx

Benchmarks can sometimes just give me headaches. It says I dropped to 7.6 min FPS, give me a break. No games I play drop that low, also the difference when running Heaven between the top window with the temps etc never matched the bottom window that tracks the numbers. as I stated in Valley, doing a reboot makes a huge difference for me, as much as 30 FPS in some parts of the test.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

With Heaven if you cycle the bench once it will reduce the loading stutter and bring your min fps up quite a bit.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

With Heaven if you cycle the bench once it will reduce the loading stutter and bring your min fps up quite a bit.

I am not surprised a bit, these Unigine benchmarks all seem a little quirky. I use them mostly for initial testing before having games up and running.

 

[futurefields]

I went into AMD Overdrive and upped the Power Setting to +20

Here's my new results at 1100/1500:

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Much better

 

[futurefields]

So pretty much upping the power setting to +20 is mandatory for these cards? And my card seems to be running as expected then for a 7950?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Not +20, I only need around +16 for 1200, but +20 is easy and it doesn't really matter.

Basically AMD has a hard limit of x power usage, when you overclock you exceed that so it starts to reduce clocks to base clocks or even reduces usage to around 60% without dropping clocks to keep the power target.

Powertune is pretty much mandatory for high overclocks though, and yes your card runs as I'd expect it to.

 

[Face2Face]

I went into AMD Overdrive and upped the Power Setting to +20

Here's my new results at 1100/1500:

:thumbsup:

Slow clap.....

 

[Fastx]

Stock clock settings except I have my volts setting at 1.02V

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I went into AMD Overdrive and upped the Power Setting to +20

Here's my new results at 1100/1500:

If you want better looking images from your desktop etc, use the built in Windows snipping tool, its awesome. All you do is open it and drag over the area you want to capture.

 

[futurefields]

I'm still miffed about this Durvelle's 7870 kicking the sh1t out of everybodies 7950.

Durvelle, can you share the rest of your system specs and setup procedure to how you get that kind of performance?

 

[futurefields]

If you want better looking images from your desktop etc, use the built in Windows snipping tool, its awesome. All you do is open it and drag over the area you want to capture.

Lol I barely know my way around Win 7. I tried print-screen, got a black picture, so I took a picture with my cell phone.

 

[Face2Face]

Lol I barely know my way around Win 7. I tried print-screen, got a black picture, so I took a picture with my cell phone.

The cell phones pics look classy

 

[futurefields]

Got 906 in this test now >
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18487976

Puts me right in range with the other similarly clocked 7950's if not a bit better. Ok... I'm happy with my purchase now hehe...

 

[BallaTheFeared]

According to that list Durvelle's 7870 is faster than a 7970 at 1500/1825, seems legit :thumbsup:

 

[futurefields]

Also, since I've ran the benchmark several times now does that mean my OC is stable? Temps seem to peak at 58c and never go above that.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Stable enough to test in games where crashing won't cause you to pull your hair out.

 

[futurefields]

According to that list Durvelle's 7870 is faster than a 7970 at 1500/1825, seems legit :thumbsup:

I know wtf.... Durvelle!

You got some splainin to do! How your scores are so high man??? :twisted:

 

[Durvelle27]

I'm still miffed about this Durvelle's 7870 kicking the sh1t out of everybodies 7950.

Durvelle, can you share the rest of your system specs and setup procedure to how you get that kind of performance?

Spec's in sig and it could be because i ran that at 1600x900 windowed and the other was 1920x1080

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Lol I barely know my way around Win 7. I tried print-screen, got a black picture, so I took a picture with my cell phone.

Better not ever get Windows 8 then.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Spec's in sig and it could be because i ran that at 1600x900 windowed and the other was 1920x1080

Get your hand out of that cookie jar!

 

[Face2Face]

Also, since I've ran the benchmark several times now does that mean my OC is stable? Temps seem to peak at 58c and never go above that.

One game -- Crysis 3. I thought my 1250 core was stable until 1.5 hrs in my card locked. It's need a little more volatage, but my VRM's are getting too hot.

This is a great benchmark thread over at OCN --

http://www.overclock.net/t/1360884/...k-1-0-fill-the-form-single-and-multi-monitors

It's very active.

 

[Durvelle27]

Get your hand out of that cookie jar!

Maxed XD