New Mystery Card to arrive at ABT - Soon!

apoppin · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:03 pm

SickBeast wrote:

The nice thing about Heaven is that it's a canned benchmark that users can run for comparison purposes.

Then run 3DMark11.

Heaven is a ... nothing. A pretty over-tessellated tech demo. Where are the Unigine games? This nonsense came out before the GTX 480 and it made sense because there were so few games that featured tessellation.
--And because it has become a forum favorite, i want to drop it.
(hamster)

i intend to add games to my benching suite. Not tech tech demos. Within the last month or so, i added Max Payne 3, the Secret World & Alan Wake: American Nightmare. Next Game (#24) should be Borderlands 2.
-- and Vantage will be the next synthetic to go
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Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2132

games are wayy more meaningful.

SickBeast · **Joined:** Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:57 pm **Posts:** 3986

Ocre wrote:

games are wayy more meaningful.

Yes but unless they have a built in benchmark it's hard for people to compare their systems to the ones in the reviews.

apoppin · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:33 pm

Nineteen games that i bench have built-in benchmarks
:hello:

apoppin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:04 pm

i just checked. AMD released WHQL 12-8 the day after the GTX 660 Ti came out
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/w ... sta64.aspx
-- i am guessing it is the same driver as 12-7beta that we used for the review

Anyway, 12-8 is the latest Radeon driver and it will be the basis for the Sapphire 7750 LP review as well as for subsequent reviews.
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SickBeast · **Joined:** Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:57 pm **Posts:** 3986

The new 12.8 cats are very nice.

apoppin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:37 pm

Why did they come out the day *after* the GTX 660 Ti review>
:scratch:

And i am guessing that WHQL 12.8 is equal in performance to 12.7 beta
-- i guess i will find out .. i am *retesting* again

SickBeast · **Joined:** Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:57 pm **Posts:** 3986

Well, they would have let the cat out of the bag, but they just *knew* that you needed the new drivers last week.

apoppin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:19 pm

It's not costing me any more work. What i don't understand is WHY AMD didn't get the WHQLs out earlier IF there is any performance improvement over 12-7 Beta (which is why i am doubting any improvement)

And i'm cheating. i started out by benching the Sapphire 7770 GHz OC edition (1100/1300MHz) with Cat 12-7 Beta and i will identify it on the chart as such. Now that the 12-8s are out, i am benching the card again but this time, i am benching it at stock clocks (1000MHz/1125MHz) to compare directly with the stock 7750 which i haven't benched yet (i bench the 7770 to establish a 'baseline', so i don't waste time with bad results).

So the reader of the evaluation gets more information. And i am able to see if there is driver improvement from going from 12.7 to 12.8 because i already know HD 7770 Scaling

apoppin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:16 pm

And ... there is word of another mystery card arriving pretty soon.

New Mystery Card to arrive at ABT - Soon!

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