Ivy Bridge GTX 690 Cpu Scaling

[Don Karnage]

3 quick little runs. I didn't do 11 because no one cares about 11. Stock clocks, 135% target power

3.4Ghz

4.0Ghz

4.6Ghz

690 was hitting 70C on the 4.6Ghz run so results should be alittle higher but you get the idea.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Woah, min fps went up by 50%! I wonder if this is reflected in actual games

 

[MisterMac]

In other words, a 690 doesn't choke on a IB.


The min shit is weird tho - i don't get it.

 

[boxleitnerb]

Heaven has very unreliable min values. You have to press Enter and cycle through all 26 scenes to avoid streaming issues which will affect min fps.
Heaven is a synthetic benchmark. The 690 will definitely scale with a fast CPU depending on the game.

 

[Don Karnage]

I ran heaven the same way each time. Opened it up, Allowed it to run 10 seconds before starting the benchmark.

 

[mazeroth]

I don't think Heaven is a good indicator of CPU scaling. I'm running my sig system. At 1920x1200 with everything maxed the highest I saw my CPU register was 14%.

 

[Annisman*]

I'm not saying those results are wrong, but I also experienced alot of fluctuating min fps in Heaven

 

[toyota]

Woah, min fps went up by 50%! I wonder if this is reflected in actual games

as already mentioned the min framerates in Heaven mean almost nothing. I get the same min framerate he did at those settings with a 2500k at 4.4 and gtx670.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Heaven is pretty much GPU bound, there is very little cpu load.

Run Vantage if you want to test cpu clock speed, you should see noticeable cpu bottlenecking occurring in both the gpu tests. Even Crysis 1 @ 1080p is a good way to test.
Of course just look at gpu scores between each run

 

[skipsneeky2]

Time to test with the most demanding gpu sucking whore games you can find Don.

BF3 please be on top of your list,many thanks sir if you can give us some official numbers at 1080p and beyond with those same clocks.

I swear that game does scale very well with overclocking especially pass 4ghz .

 

[WiseUp216]

gpu sucking whore games

That is my favorite genre on Steam.

 

[boxleitnerb]

I ran heaven the same way each time. Opened it up, Allowed it to run 10 seconds before starting the benchmark.

The problem is that at the first run not all data is cached. So when the benchmark begins to stream, this will affect min fps and be erratic every time. If you cycle through all scenes at least once you circumvent this problem.

 

[imaheadcase]

Yah min fps is not good on Heaven benchmarks.

On my Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz with GTX 580 i would get min 30fps all the time at 1900x1200.

Nice to see my GTX 880 SLI better than a GTX 690 though

The odd part to me about those benchmarks is being dual GPU on one card, it should be double that min fps. I guess Heaven sees it as once gpu and won't scale everything?