[GameGPU & TechSpot] Battlefield Hardline Beta 2 GPU Benches

[RussianSensation]

GameGPU

AMD's HD7990/ARESII/295X2 CF is looking great. So refreshing to see AMD and NV GPUs both scale nicely with increased GPU speed. Must be a non-GW title.:awe:

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[RussianSensation]

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[KaRLiToS]

What a shame for Maxwell.

Edit: after analysing the graphs even more, how come a GTX 780ti SLI is behind the R9 295x2 and how come HD 7990 is so close to GTX 780 Sli?

So a HD 7970 is now equivalent to GTX 780 :thumbsdown: .

What is wrong with Kepler?

 

[RussianSensation]

What a shame for Maxwell.

The performance for mid-range 970/980 style chips is great. The problem with Maxwell today is the price. The cards are badly overpriced, esp. the 980 imo. 980 is barely faster than a $260-300 290X in BF Hardline but it costs $550. I don't know who keeps buying them, but I guess enough people that NV could care less about offering any kind of 'reasonable' pricing premiums. When people are stepping up from a 970 to a 980 and skipping 290X, NV is laughing all the way to the bank. Alas, BF Hardline is one of the few brand agnostic AAA titles in the 1st half of 2015, and well as expected it runs well on both NV and AMD hardware. Once those GW marketing dollars kick in, NV's 980 will suddenly be "worth it." 😀

What is wrong with Kepler?

Nothing, it's performing as intended, by design -- planned obsolescence. 980 SLI is 29% faster than 780Ti SLI at 1080P 200% scaling.

So a HD 7970 is now equivalent to GTX 780 :thumbsdown: .

Not exactly. It still has a 13% lead at 1080P and 9% at 1440p over the 7970Ghz. That lead used to be 20% and 22%, respectively. Crazy enough some gamers are walking out with dual R9 290s with a profit after selling the much slower 780s.

 

[raghu78]

Man that gamegpu 4k 120% chart is revealing. The GTX 970 in SLI just falls apart under the VRAM load at 4k 120%. Its just 20% faster on avg fps and 10% on min fps than a single R9 290X. the R9 295X2 has 50% higher min fps and 42% higher avg fps than GTX 970 SLI. Nvidia has made real suckers out of people who bought GTX 970 SLI for 4k. Even reviewers were praising GTX 970 SLI without doing any frametime testing on the latest games at 4k res and highest settings. the R9 290X is a true last gen high performance GPU. Now we are all waiting for what that behemoth R9 390X with HBM can do. 🙂 Another 50 - 60% at 4k would put it at 45 - 48 fps on a single GPU. Its very clear that R9 390X will be the first single chip GPU to break 50 fps in this title at 4k when overclocked. So finally we have 4k single GPU gaming becoming a reality. Combine that with Freesync and this year is going to be a great year for enthusiast 4k gaming 🙂

 

[2is]

Quite a bit of guesswork you got going for you there. Predicting exact performance figures both stock and overclocked on an unreleased card. Bravo.

 

[amenx]

The game is in beta still.

 

[flash-gordon]

Even at 1600p the 970 is lagging behind 290, it just get worse from there and SLI it's out of question. The future trend is getting clear.
Funny how 290 surpassed the 780s and now is surpassing the 970...

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'd say, generally in high res, multi-monitor setups 290/290x can punch quite a bit of more power than 256-bit Maxwell. In normal res, single monitor setups, Maxwell is generally faster. This game looks different, however.

 

[zlatan]

So refreshing to see AMD and NV GPUs both scale nicely with increased GPU speed. Must be a non-GW title.:awe:http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/battlefield-hardline-beta-2-test-gpu.html

GameWorks is certainly a big limitation for PC gaming performance and scaling. The devs simply unable to optimise such a black box concept. Those who don't use this middleware will have enormous performance lead compared to devs who are "forced" to use it. But the whole concept is to create a fully controllable developing environment for NVIDIA, so they can "force" the customers to buy a new GPU almost every year.

 

[Magic Carpet]

@zlatan

I second that.

 

[AtenRa]

Personally i didnt like the Game and i dont think im going to buy (played BETA heist)

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Edit: after analysing the graphs even more, how come a GTX 780ti SLI is behind the R9 295x2 and how come HD 7990 is so close to GTX 780 Sli?

So a HD 7970 is now equivalent to GTX 780 :thumbsdown: .

What is wrong with Kepler?

http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/2one2z/discussion_has_nvidia_forsaken_kepler_cards_has/

It's why I said "f*ck it" and dumped my 2x 780s on some sucker on eBay, and "upgraded" to 2x 290X DDs.
The ironic part is, I "upgraded" for free from 2x 7970GHz to 2x 780s at the height of the Litecoin craze (~Nov/Dec 2013).

 

[Headfoot]

No doubt that the BF games are well programmed. Very good looking graphics, 64 man multiplayer, extraordinarily good CPU core scaling including HT cores

 

[jackstar7]

I wonder if these will translate over to the DICE Battlefront also expected later this year, or if there will be a engine overhaul/upgrade for the SW franchise.

 

[skipsneeky2]

No doubt that the BF games are well programmed. Very good looking graphics, 64 man multiplayer, extraordinarily good CPU core scaling including HT cores

Cpu charts look very great,a cheap fx4100 delivers a higher minimum then a 290 does which is great.If you used high settings and no msaa for 1080p you could build a rig that could hold 60fps pretty cheaply it seems.

I recall everything if i remember outside of a i5/i7 just tanking in BF4.Looks like any recent 4+ threaded chip is enough for this game even paired with something like a 290.:thumbsup:

Guessing when it releases,these numbers could increase unless there is graphical improvements.

 

[Headfoot]

playing the beta is pretty fun but ultimately doesn't really feel different enough from BF4 that I'll pay full price for it. That, and im sure it'll be all of 3 months before they split the community with DLC again

 

[Makaveli]

This game runs pretty good on my system.

1200p on ultra with 4xMSAA + HBAO

I average 63 fps with the ingame benchmark.

 

[Blitzvogel]

I think AMD cards are benefiting from the presence of GCN in the console APUs 😉

 

[ShintaiDK]

I think AMD cards are benefiting from the presence of GCN in the console APUs 😉

No numbers point to that.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Anyone know if there is a fps difference between Windows 7 and 8.1? I used to run 8.1 but had stability issues with BF4 so i have been on 7 for a while.

 

[Spjut]

Anyone know if there is a fps difference between Windows 7 and 8.1? I used to run 8.1 but had stability issues with BF4 so i have been on 7 for a while.

There should be because the Frostbite 3 engine supports DX11.1.

 

[Makaveli]

I think AMD cards are benefiting from the presence of GCN in the console APUs 😉

It also uses all 6 cores on my cpu they optimized well for processors.

 

[Kuiva maa]

Don't read too much on gamegpu's results. Here are their bench routines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSUjWTovl-o GPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dS4NuBs1SU CPU

These areas are not stressful at all, nothing about the thick of the action with tenths of players, molotovs and tear gas everywhere. Pretty irrelevant results like with most of their other tests.

 

[2is]

Anyone know if there is a fps difference between Windows 7 and 8.1? I used to run 8.1 but had stability issues with BF4 so i have been on 7 for a while.

I ran BF4 across 3 different machines and Windows 8 had significantly better performance on all of them. DICE had also confirmed back then that Windows 8 will offer better performance than 7. I wouldn't be surprised if the same holds true here since it's essentially the same engine.