NEW! SAPPHIRE AMD HD 6850 Benchmark/Review @ 950/1150 w/ AMD 11.4p Drivers!

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GaiaHunter

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In all fairness, even if they did make the game faster, who cares? it over a year old.

Really thats a little late, don't you think?:'(

What?

Of course people care.

Not every game is worth $/€50, but @ $/€10 it a lot easier to justify a game and better than pirate 1.
 

Absolution75

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Most of the graphs are useless because you don't have a single control. You can't compare clockspeed AND driver revisions in the same data. . . You really can't make any conclusions about any of this data...
 

RavenSEAL

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Most of the graphs are useless because you don't have a single control. You can't compare clockspeed AND driver revisions in the same data. . . You really can't make any conclusions about any of this data...

They are not there to be compared, they are there to be referenced.

It's about the FPS, drivers or no drivers.
 

rogerdv

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Hmm, 68 seems like something I can live with. Anyway I dont plan any gaming marathon during summer days. Now lets hope Catalyst gets better under Linux too, I have been waiting for a year to have video playback acceleration (and we still dont have it) and tessellation works only in recent releases.
 

Absolution75

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They are not there to be compared, they are there to be referenced.

It's about the FPS, drivers or no drivers.

I'm trying to be polite when I say this, these benchmarks are even more pointless then; and the title of this thread is incredibly misleading.

This is no longer a review in the sense that you are comparing video cards at various settings, its more of a statement: "these cards produce frames per second, and this is what they are" - this is a rather obvious statement.


It just seems like you're trying to market 11.4p as a driver that improves FPS (especially when you say "there are noticeable improvements on GPU-centric benchmark even at the same clocks!") but later say that they are just for reference. This is very inconsistent.
 
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RavenSEAL

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I'm trying to be polite when I say this, these benchmarks are even more pointless then; and the title of this thread is incredibly misleading.

This is no longer a review in the sense that you are comparing video cards at various settings, its more of a statement: "these cards produce frames per second, and this is what they are" - this is a rather obvious statement.

Well, sorry that i don't own f'ing 15 different video cards that i can test out. I'm not getting paid for this, i'm putting in my personal time. Sorry if it's not good enough for you.
 

RavenSEAL

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Hmm, 68 seems like something I can live with. Anyway I dont plan any gaming marathon during summer days. Now lets hope Catalyst gets better under Linux too, I have been waiting for a year to have video playback acceleration (and we still dont have it) and tessellation works only in recent releases.
That's with the GPU load @ 99%. Usually, during gaming, it hangs around 54-60c
 

RavenSEAL

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I need to go right now, but i wanna make sure i get STALKER right. Be back later with update benchmarks.
 

Lonyo

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Not sure if I did something wrong, but when I went from 11.2 to 11.4, my STALKER benchmark scores DROPPED by around 10%.
Didn't restart between drivers though, and CCC doesn't want to show without a restart, so I don't know if CCC settings are somehow different or something.

11.2 vs 11.4
DX11 Ultra, 0xAA, 8xAF

Tessellation and SSAO off, averages only:
Day: 64.75 vs 62.85
Night: 60.3 vs 55.86
Rain: 66.45 vs 60.57
SunShafts: 29.13 vs 29.0

Tessellation and SSAO ON, averages:
Day: 54.53 vs 47.3
Night: 51.5 vs 43.95
Rain: 55.3 vs 46.55
SunShafts: 26.5 vs 25.5


Edit: Apparently CCC just won't load at all, woo. I guess that's the reward for preview drivers.
 
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MentalIlness

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I have all 3 STALKER games. And Bad Company 2.

Ill test them now. Abit a lower resolution.
 
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