PCGH: CoD Black Ops III Benchmarks

[tential]

I don't use super sampling because I really can't tell the difference, but that artificial restriction sucks.

Wow....
I dunno what the difference is iiiankiii to be honest when describing it to a person. When I saw the screenshots when it was first released I wanted to try it. It wasn't til I used it on bioshock that I was blown away. I could instantly tell it was night and day and I couldn't go back. I can't describe it, but once I've used it, there is no going back to just 1080p.
I imagine the feeling is more pronounced for people who have 1440p monitors over people who use 1080p monitors. And even more so for people with 4K monitors.
But, I also use a large display (55 inches is bare minimum, I'm using a projector to play games right now at 80 inches). But I noticed it first using a 32 inch screen.
I really don't know what a game looks like on a 24 inch screen. But I can't imagine not being able to notice it, but I could be 100% wrong. Because I don't know what a game looks like on a 24 inch screen or whatever the size is that is popular among gamers.

 

[iiiankiii]

Wow....
I dunno what the difference is iiiankiii to be honest when describing it to a person. When I saw the screenshots when it was first released I wanted to try it. It wasn't til I used it on bioshock that I was blown away. I could instantly tell it was night and day and I couldn't go back. I can't describe it, but once I've used it, there is no going back to just 1080p.
I imagine the feeling is more pronounced for people who have 1440p monitors over people who use 1080p monitors. And even more so for people with 4K monitors.
But, I also use a large display (55 inches is bare minimum, I'm using a projector to play games right now at 80 inches). But I noticed it first using a 32 inch screen.
I really don't know what a game looks like on a 24 inch screen. But I can't imagine not being able to notice it, but I could be 100% wrong. Because I don't know what a game looks like on a 24 inch screen or whatever the size is that is popular among gamers.

Yo, I'm gaming on a 4k 40 inch monitor. So, yeah. Maybe that's the reason I might not notice or need it?

 

[tential]

Ah then lucky you! Freesync? That's the plan for me. Big Screen, Freesync 4K. Just need games that are well optimized to play!

 

[iiiankiii]

Ah then lucky you! Freesync? That's the plan for me. Big Screen, Freesync 4K. Just need games that are well optimized to play!

Yeah, sorry no freesync . It's the korean VA monitor. I bought it before realizing a freesync 4k monitor existed. Maybe next year I'll upgrade to a freesync one. But, I'm pretty happy with the monitor I have now.

Having said that, I do believe VSR might make a difference on larger screens with lower resolutions. Maybe I should try it out on my 60 inch plasma HDTV and see if I notice a difference.

 

[alexruiz]

Techpowerup had reported that while even a gTX 980 Ti has awful stutter with 12GB of system RAM, bumping it to 16GB fixed it.

I wonder how many sites have outfitted their test rigs with at least 16GB of RAM. The results are all over the place.

 

[tential]

That's a lot closer to what I am getting.

970 runs great, 7950 runs like a turd.

Also the high cpu usage is fixed with the released hotfix.

Very disappointed with my 7950's performance. It's less than half that of the 970, which is not the norm. Usually the 970 is 50-60% faster and that's it.

Actually I had to turn shadow maps a notch down, in order for it to be borderline acceptable.

I dumped my 7950 for the 290. Couldn't be more happy. Sometimes I wish I just could stomach fury x. But I can't.

 

[YBS1]

It's running like absolute trash on my system, I've tried just about everything too. Runs at a solid (whatever I have frame limiter set to - usually 120) 120fps, then drops down to sub-teens for a second, then right back up to 120, over and over. It's non playable in this state. I'm going to roll back to the pre-BLOPs driver and try that.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Multiplayer runs fine for me. But the campaign framerate is all over the place.

 

[RaulF]

Runs good on my system all max out @ 2K. I did have some mouse lag and lowered the FPS to 58 max on the game settings and that has seen to help. Now if i could stop the screen tearing.

 

[PhonakV30]

Why does GameGPU.Ru show low frame on AMD cards?

 

[stuff_me_good]

HMMMMM , mabe because I play @ 1080p?like most people in this world!
I don't care about other resolutions?
Some people actually look at reviews to see how their rig will play not so they can tell someone how to save a nickle in 40 paragraphs.

So you are biased and VSR or DSR doesn't ring a bell? Got it. No need to read your posts anymore.

 

[happy medium]

VSR or DSR doesn't ring a bell

Never used it.

 

[railven]

So who's benches are right? I've seen Fury X score 1.0 to something reasonable but behind GTX 980 Ti, to now not only destroying 980 Ti, it created it's own nation with the excess FPS.

Woof. I don't even care, this game is not gonna touch my rig for at least 3 months.

 

[YBS1]

Repost from the other BLOPs thread:

Ok, I have some potentially big help for any of you having the severe performance issues like I was having. I got to thinking since the initial patch was to fix performance issues with i5 users, the difference between the i5 and i7 is of course Hyperthreading, the one thing I hadn't tried switching. Sure enough, disabling Hyperthreading completely (and I mean completely) alleviated every bit of the stuttering/freezing I was having. I'm going to try it on the 3930K rig my son is using (it was having the exact same issues) to see if it's major fix for 6-8 core machines or it was specific to my 5960X pc.

 

[RussianSensation]

I can't describe it, but once I've used it, there is no going back to just 1080p.
I imagine the feeling is more pronounced for people who have 1440p monitors over people who use 1080p monitors. And even more so for people with 4K monitors.

Too bad no amount of downsampling/pixels can mask floating table mugs, and explosions that came out from a 2008 videogame. This game looks sooo bad for a 2015 FPS, and for how bad it runs, it's shocking really. From that video, it makes no want to even play that SP campaign. Looks like a linear FPS turd with target shooting on guided wheels.

User reviews which are far more trustworthy are terribad for BO3.

If you skip all the professional (aka marketing paid for) reviews and go all the way down, what do you see?

Gamespot - 70%
GiantBomb - 60%
TheJimquisition - 50%
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/call-of-duty-black-ops-iii/critic-reviews

Luckily for us, most of the horribly optimized console-to-PC ports in 2015 aren't even great games.

This would be akin to someone giving 92% to Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and someone else giving it 50%. Something like that never used to happen in the past. Now you have to be very careful which reviews are actually legitimate. It's also good to use other games to gauge how credible the site is. Looking at previous turds like AC Unity for example as an indication.

PCLabs posted their benches too.

This games hates 2GB videocards and Kepler is the worst performing architecture of all modern GPUs.

 

[amenx]

Posted this in the other COD thread. Benches all over the place with this title. Guru3d review with disclaimer:

So the results you see today are INDICATIVE and not precise. This game is a mess to measure. We found a sweet spot setting that works pretty good and measure in a level (In Darkness Quarantine Zone, Singapore) that allows fairly consistent frame-rates. However the number you see WILL change even your GTX 980 TI or Fury X at one point will drop to 30 FPS These means that the results shown today are indicative, not a precise measurement by any standard.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_page..._graphics_performance_benchmark_review,8.html

 

[Techhog]

I'd have 2 R9 290s in Crossfire right now to manage 4K VSR.
Instead, 1 R9 290 to do 1800p VSR hardset rule by AMD.
Why does AMD choose to hardset that 1800p VSR when 4K VSR is clearly possible? AMD uses a clear segmentation strategy of:
1440p VSR - 7000 series
1800p VSR - 200 series
4K VSR - Fiji
And that's acceptable? I thought we were sitting here complaining about Kepler tanking in new games so people buy Maxwell. AMD does the same thing.... I refuse to buy the "Overclockers dream" AMD. Well, at least not new anyway.

What makes you so sure that it's an artificial thing? It seems to be related to architecture.

GCN 1.0 and 1.1 - 1800p max
GCN 1.2 - 2160p max
(Don't know where you're getting the 1440p part from...)

If it were completely artificial, the fact that Tonga supports 2160p VSR would be extremely weird.

 

[Timmah!]

Did you see Battlefront's reveal of other maps? The forest looks better than Crysis 3 AND its fluid fast without requiring uber hardware.

There's studios that repeatedly release poorly optimized PC console ports, then there's studios that make polished and optimized PC games first and foremost, while they tone it down for consoles.

Look at Alien Isolation as another good example, moderate GPU setup, 1080p it runs over 100 fps with scenes that look better than this COD.

Frostbite is a great engine unlike whatever run the CoD games on. I can play BF4 or NFS Rivals on my current card (GTX 580 1,5GB) just fine mostly on high settings and it looks awesome, on par if not better than these Calls of Duty. And i still remember how badly Call of Duty Ghosts ran on my machine 2 years ago, had to put almost all the settings to low and it still would not run smoothly - or better said, there was not much difference between high and low. Not to mention it looked like 2000 game with all the bells and whistles off.
In other words, after that it is no surprise to me this is happening. Would not trust Activision about releasing proper PC game ever again.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I just tried this game with eyefinity 8040x1440 and Quad R9 290x.

Result: This game is complete garbage.

 

[happy medium]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHu9TVm_5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9gjyeTadc

Call of duty black ops 3 eyefinity 5760x1080, single 290 oc tri-X 4gb.
Seems to run fine.

I think you will need more than 4gb vram for your resolution with this game.
Do you have 8gb 290x's?

for the rest of us............

This guy is playing with a i3 4160, and a 260x 2gb, with 8gb of ram. Below minimum specs.

With medium settings @ 1080p, the mulyiplayer game seems to run between 35 and 45 fps.
That seems playable. He seems to be using about 1.5gb of vram and 6 gb of ram.
45 seconds into video is med setting @ 1080p.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXW3qJmyxI

 

[Techhog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHu9TVm_5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9gjyeTadc

Call of duty black ops 3 eyefinity 5760x1080, single 290 oc tri-X 4gb.
Seems to run fine.

I think you will need more than 4gb vram for your resolution with this game.
Do you have 8gb 290x's?

for the rest of us............

This guy is playing with a i3 4160, and a 260x 2gb, with 8gb of ram. Below minimum specs.

With medium settings @ 1080p, the mulyiplayer game seems to run between 35 and 45 fps.
That seems playable. He seems to be using about 1.5gb of vram and 6 gb of ram.
45 seconds into video is med setting @ 1080p.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McXW3qJmyxI

Less than 60FPS in an FPS can hardly be called playable.

 

[KaRLiToS]

http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=30425

Stretched.

I have seen the video you linked before, doesn't help my issue though. A third-party fix is probably needed (Widescreen Fixer or Flawless Widescreen) but nothing has been released yet.

 

[happy medium]

Less than 60FPS in an FPS can hardly be called playable.

Funny a while back I played CSS @ about 45fps @ 1280x1024 and wooped most people.
I think I logged a thousand hours with that game. Best 5$ I ever spent.

 

[Arachnotronic]

It's running like absolute trash on my system, I've tried just about everything too. Runs at a solid (whatever I have frame limiter set to - usually 120) 120fps, then drops down to sub-teens for a second, then right back up to 120, over and over. It's non playable in this state. I'm going to roll back to the pre-BLOPs driver and try that.

That is really, really crappy to hear

 

[YBS1]

Yesterday's patch fixed the 6-8 core Hyperthreading issue I was having. Game is running slick now. It's a load of fun as well, to early to tell but I think this may replace Black Ops 1 as my favorite in the COD series, just a blast.