Your Unigine Engine Heaven Benchmark Scores SLI/Crossfire. Mine are up with my 3x7970

[FiLeZz]

I have 3 7970's not overclocked running on a 3930k @4.6ghz I was looking at the 680gtx cards but I just dont think it would really offer anything at my res, 3x30" monitors

I wanted to run a few heaven benchmarks with 3 cards in Xfire to see how I compare to the reviews I see with only 2 cards in SLI or crossfire at lower Resolutions.


Eyfinity 4800x2560 2xAA 4x AF extreme tessalation

2560x1600 MAX all settings

1920x1200 Max all settings

1680x1050 Max all settings

 

[aaksheytalwar]

At the rez you want to play the 680 Tri SLI will probably be a downgrade or at best side grade.

1. Since you want 3 x 1600p, you will find the 3GB VRAM on 7970 useful, you are going beyond regular eyefinity and here 2+ GB should help.

2. CF on 7970 scales a bit better than SLI on 680. Tri SLI on 680 isn't as good as other tri gpu setups while 7970 tri is pretty decent. So a tri 7970 >= tri 680 even when only 2gb vram is needed.

3. Practically speaking you might not loose much/any performance, but you definitely won't gain anything noticeable in terms of fps which can be practically felt.

IMO you should wait for Big K or 8970.

Or just get water cooling for all 3 and cool them, you will probably reach 1250-1350 core and 1600-1800 vram and that would be enough to make a 680 OC loose even one on one, leave alone multi gpu setups

 

[FiLeZz]

At the rez you want to play the 680 Tri SLI will probably be a downgrade or at best side grade.

1. Since you want 3 x 1600p, you will find the 3GB VRAM on 7970 useful, you are going beyond regular eyefinity and here 2+ GB should help.

2. CF on 7970 scales a bit better than SLI on 680. Tri SLI on 680 isn't as good as other tri gpu setups while 7970 tri is pretty decent. So a tri 7970 >= tri 680 even when only 2gb vram is needed.

3. Practically speaking you might not loose much/any performance, but you definitely won't gain anything noticeable in terms of fps which can be practically felt.

IMO you should wait for Big K or 8970.

Or just get water cooling for all 3 and cool them, you will probably reach 1250-1350 core and 1600-1800 vram and that would be enough to make a 680 OC loose even one on one, leave alone multi gpu setups

This was already the conclusion I came up with as well.

But it always sucks that there are no reviews with this many cards and with My resolutions.

So I have to just make a guess that it would be no better.

Maybe I need to get 3x680's so I can make my own reviews. You never see ATI vs Nvidia on the super high end of the scale when it comes to reviews. I guess they review for the masses not the exception.

 

[Don Karnage]

Mother of god

 

[tincart]

I think that what we all really want to know is how SLI'd 470's perform.

No member callouts
-ViRGE

 

[Elfear]

I think that what we all really want to know is how SLI'd 470's perform.

That's what the OP should have bought. Three 7970's is rather lackluster now that you mention the gaming rig of emperors. :awe:




On a more serious note, your setup is sick OP. What games do play on it?

 

[FiLeZz]

That's what the OP should have bought. Three 7970's is rather lackluster now that you mention the gaming rig of emperors. :awe:




On a more serious note, your setup is sick OP. What games do play on it?

Don't laugh at me please..
League of legends does not take much but I like it.

Old WOW junky

Then Battlefeild 3
star wars online
BatMan
Call of Duty MW3
Dirt3
L4dead2
Metro 2033
Rift
Ruse
Rage
Company of heros
Portal 1 and 2
Assassins creed II

Lots more on steam but these are installed

 

[T_Yamamoto]

the only demanding games i see are BF3, Metro and Batman

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Pics of hardware all setup?

 

[FiLeZz]

Pics of hardware all setup?

 

[Will Robinson]

I think that what we all really want to know is how SLI'd 470's perform.

+1 LOL

I'm sure RolloTheFeared will be along any minute now with graphs and charts
explaining...hell!....damn near proving the 470's can match that rig.
MOAR 470's FTW!!:awe:

I've infracted you so many times for member callouts that it's beyond silly. You are hereby going on a very long vacation.
-ViRGE

 

[Tempered81]

I think that what we all really want to know is how SLI'd 470's perform.

LOL This is the best response of all time. THUMBS UP!!!

 

[Tempered81]

Slightly off-topic, but would anyone happen to have 470 SLI benchmarks?

 

[FiLeZz]

Hell maybe we can do some Vodoo benches while we are at it.

 

[ShadowVVL]

I dont have sli just single 260,did I win?

 

[FiLeZz]

I dont have sli just single 260,did I win?

You participated therefore you are the only one who can WIN.



Thanks for the time it took to run the benchmark.
I look forward to see others join in.
Thanks again for steping up to the plate.

 

[ShadowVVL]

You participated therefore you are the only one who can WIN. Thanks for the time it took to run the benchmark. I look forward to see others join in. Thanks again for steping up to the plate.

yup no prob

 

[Tempered81]

filezz, digital viper x at Hardforum had 680 sli and 7970 cfx and he did some benches at triple screen portriat and posted them. Xoleras has same rig, and a guy here - Blackened23 - has both 680 sli & 7970 cfx also. 2 cards not 3 though, i believe. I'm not a fan of multi gpu. But for your screen size with AA, you kinda need at least two or 3.

I'd rather have a 30" landscape, or a big screen 1080P powered from a water/aftermarket 1300/1800 single 7970 or single 680 classified with a beast overclock. Never been a fan of alternate frame rendering and frame times. But with a monster rig like yours, 1 @ 1300 might not even be enough. Gawd damn.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

IMO getting a fourth 7970 will help much more than 680 tri sli

 

[StinkyPinky]

What case is that?

 

[FiLeZz]

Corsair D800

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Slightly off-topic, but would anyone happen to have 470 SLI benchmarks?

With a slightly above avg air clock speed $300 gets you this:

Along with bleeding ears.

 

[FiLeZz]

With a slightly above avg air clock speed $300 gets you this:

Along with bleeding ears.

Thx for the post and the scores, Keep them coming.
I know we are not the olny 3 poeple on the inter-webs that have SLI/crossfire setups.

ALSO you like ie10?

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Do you have the Dual circuit version of the Airplex radiator and have it tubed up for a single loop?

Extreme tessellation really wrecks the 6970s.

Edit: hmmm, looking at the 9800gt getting better performance than my dual 6970s makes me wonder. Something must be up with my machine.

Edit2: Oh this is BallaTheFeared with his SLI'd 470s. Makes more sense dual 470s should beat 6970s when tessellation is involved. I was wondering why a 9800gt was running DX11 with tessellation.

 

[ShadowVVL]

Same i was a little confused by the 9800gt running tess.I think its just unigine mistaking the 470s for a 9800gt.