AMD 7970HD 3Gb and CoD

[Flanker35M]

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So today The Card arrived. Just got it installed with latest drivers and had time to quickly run a test with CoD. For AMD users oh the joy, the 3 lines of death are GONE!! YESSS!! Spit vs 110 track..maximum 68fps minimum 2fps(when it loads into cockpit), average 60FPS! I have VSync on.

Will do some more testing and report in this thread, but from what I tested the card is DAMN fast! Could not be happier!!!!!!

[Ataros]

Congratulations! And great news on 3 lines of death

Could you run the test with SSAO on and off, and with vsynk off and on also just to compare to gtx580 performance tests from here http://translate.google.com/translat...hp%3Ft%3D68723

What is your AA setting and resolution? With vsync ON triple buffering must be forced ON I think to avoid short drops to 30 fps in complex scenes.

gtx 580 results vary from 51 average to 65 with vsynk and SSAO off. Clouds ON in realism settings.

43 avg with SSAO and vsynk ON AA 4x 1920x1080

You can pause the track after loading cockpit and only then start the counter to avoid 2 min fps. You may also first run it once without a counter to load all textures into memory and record results only in the 2nd run. This is how they tested 580 and other cards there.

Do you experience the stripes bug on the border of land and water?

PS. E.g. sample results for 580:

I5-2500К-3.3GHz
min=13/14/15
avg=45/46
max=113/114/119

I5-2500К@4.0GHz
min=14/15/17
avg=50/51
max=134/138/140

I5-2500К@4.5GHz
min=14/15
avg=55/56
max=152/156/160

SSAO=off, AA=off, VSYNC=off.

ASRock P67 Extreme6 / Gainward GTX 580 / DDR3 1600 G.Skill 3X4 Gb / Crucial M4 CT128 SSD + CT064M4SSD2 /Asus Xonar Essence STX/ Monitor DELL U2410 1920x1200 / Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 bit / Warthog / TrackIR 5

What are your CPU clocks?

[Sven]

Excellent news! It's just so damn expensive

[Flanker35M]

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I run the card on the stock settings 925/1372MHz, 1920x1080 32-bit resolution. SSAO is Off as well as AA. Will post my CCC and game settings, need to plug in the joystick etc. again..had CoD kind of shelved before the patch

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Flanker35M

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I run the card on the stock settings 925/1372MHz, 1920x1080 32-bit resolution. SSAO is Off as well as AA. Will post my CCC and game settings, need to plug in the joystick etc. again..had CoD kind of shelved before the patch

Thank you very much! Could you please run "The black death" track. The results for gtx580 are for this track. I did not notice you were running a different one, sorry.

[Flanker35M]

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Ok, made some quick runs with Black Death at 1920x1080 resolution and I think you find out something interesting in results. Mind you I did not clear cache before or between the tests, it MIGHT have an effect but anyway..here settings and numbers!

CCC Settings, Performance driver 11.12 from AMD

Antialiasing Mode : Use application settings, Morphological filtering OFF, Filter Standard.
Anisotropic Filtering : Use application settings
Tessellation: AMD Optimized (I think has no effect in CoD whatsoever)
Catalyst AI : Performance, Surface optimization Off
Vertical refresh : On, unless application specifies
Triple Buffer : Off (OpenGL setting only)

First runs I ran at what I had from my 6970HD. Cache was NOT cleared nor game restarted between runs in any phaze.

In-game settings...

Full Screen : On
Antialiasing : Off(in all tests)
Epilepsy : Off (in ALL tests)
SSAO : Off
Vsync : On

Model detail : High
Building detail : High
Land Detail : High
Forest : Low
Visual effects : Medium
Texture Quality : High

Damage decals : High
Buidlings amount : Unlimited
Land shading : High

Grass : Off
Shadows : On
Roads : On

Black Death ran once to load textures. Then the benchmarking run with FPS counter on. Counter was reset on each run to get consistent results.

Minimum: 10fps
Maximum: 68fps
Average: 45fps

Next run with VSync OFF, otherwise all remained same.

Minimum: 10fps
Maximum: 112fps
Average 48fps

Next run with SSAO ON, VSync Off. Otherwise similar settings. This was interesting!

Minimum: 10fps
Maximum: 111fps
Average: 47fps

Next run SSAO ON, VSync ON. Otherwise similar settings. Again interesting!

Minimum: 10fps
Maximum: 67fps
Average: 44fps

Then I changed graphics settings to VERY HIGH, VSync ON. Interesting average, should run another run?

Minimum: 5fps
Maximum: 67fps
Average: 34fps

Last run VERY HIGH, VSync OFF. Interesting results again..

Minimum: 5fps
Maximum: 112fps
Average: 45fps

So here a quick and dirty testing. Will do some cahce clearing and other tweaks. My system runs ALL at STOCK speeds, no overclocking. Signature for more info

[hc_wolf]

Welcome to the land of Big VCards Flanker.

I ran the Spit vs 110 track. so you have a compare. Vsync on i get .
maximum 68fps (spikes) minimum 60fps, average 60FPS!

Vsync off avg FPS 89 Max 118

My nvidia settings all standard except I set me pre rendered frames to 8

No real point in comparing FPS. The game is so unoptimized over land it's just a mess. It should easily pull 100fps on full detail over land without any stuttering.

[dasstuka]

Removable Rack
Kingwin K450-1062 SATA KF-811

CPU
AMD 8 Core FX-8150 3.6G

CPU Cooler
Thermalright Silver Arrow

Operating System
MS Windows 7 Professional 64 BIT

Mother Board
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 Rev 1

DVD Burner
Asus DRW 24B1ST /Black/B/AS/OEM

Case
Cooler Master Storm Enforcer ATX Mid Tower Case

Power Supply
Cooler Master GX 750 Watt

Memory
Kingston Hyper X 8GB DDR3 1600 CL9 240 pin DIMM 16 GB Total

Hard drive for Storage
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2 Terabyte SATA 7200 RPM 68 MB SATA-6GB/S Item # TSD-2000ASV Model ST2000DM001

Hard Drive for operating system
Sandisk SDSSDX-120G-G25 Extreme 2.5 SATA III 6 GB/S Staples # 730645
Sandisk Model# SDSSDX-120G-G25

Video Card
Gigabyte GV-R797D5-3GD-B Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-BIT GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0x16 HDCP ready, Cross Fire X, Direct X 11, Open GL4.2 and Eyefinity


The Gigabyte card is out of stock at newegg so it may be a few weeks before it is in stock again.

Will this set up be OK for CoD ?
anyone run CoD in windows 7 with 64 bit environment ?
as soon as I get the video card and install it I will update on the forum here.

Dasstuka

[Flanker35M]

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That system should run any game just fine and the upcoming patch will increase performance further. Please update, will be interesting to see what kind of figures you will get