UNIGINE-Valley BENCHMARK scores

[Locksmith]

cpu core is 4.6

 

[D007]

I should be number 4 now. When you updating the scores?

 

[springs113]

I should be number 4 now. When you updating the scores?

Depends on what you got or that's my spot.

 

[D007]

Depends on what you got or that's my spot.

Page 28 near the bottom.
With better drivers, the score would be better I bet.

 

[Stardust342]

Depends on what you got or that's my spot.

So you got 5700 with 290x + 2x290 ? Seems you should do better considering my 290x with slight OC got 3200...

 

[springs113]

Page 28 near the bottom.
With better drivers, the score would be better I bet.

Thanks but you are below me.

So you got 5700 with 290x + 2x290 ? Seems you should do better considering my 290x with slight OC got 3200...

That was at stock...but I am now in the 6gs.

 

[D007]

Thanks but you are below me.

That was at stock...but I am now in the 6gs.

You were looking at my 4k, UHD, score. ^^

My 1080p score is 6072.

 

[Stardust342]

Thanks but you are below me.

That was at stock...but I am now in the 6gs.

You should try it with only 1 290, see if there is any difference.

 

[springs113]

You were looking at my 4k, UHD, score. ^^
Lol I gotta run this on my 780 setup

My 1080p score is 6072.

You should try it with only 1 290, see if there is any difference.

I will but first I'm tinkering with the bios and some oc'n. I do feel that the score is kind of low for the hardware. But then I look at the firestrike scores...they seem more realistic.

 

[Stardust342]

I will but first I'm tinkering with the bios and some oc'n. I do feel that the score is kind of low for the hardware. But then I look at the firestrike scores...they seem more realistic.

Yeah, firestrike is better for 3 or even 4 gpus. I read that someone on here got an improvement by disabling the third graphics card.

 

[fullinfusion]

Good for number 6th spot till these dam 980's start posting .

fullinfusion 2 xR9 290@1037mhz gpu/1360mhz mem

 

[springs113]

The GPUs are @1075 mem@stock.

 

[purecain]

everytime I edit the scores, 10 or so scores are replaced with emailemailemail ect.... so keep adding your scores and I will add them all up as soon as this problem gets sorted... thanks..

also thanks for the help HazMatt... unfortunately it wont let me copy and paste or add your quote to the first page. have a look in edit and advanced options and see if theres a way, if anyone knows how I can add hasmats table onto the first post just let me know and i'll get on it...

worked it out... big thanks to HazMatt...

 

[HammerON]

Glad you were able to figure it out and thanks for updating

 

[purecain]

my pleasure... im using this benchmark as a guide for my gpu upgrade path... ive also found another gpu intensive benchmark in shadow of mordor... im wondering if the bench is also in the demo...

when enough people have the game I might add that benchmark in another thread....

until then im looking forward to water cooling just one of my gpu's and seeing the performance improvement in this bench... my vrm sinks just arrived...

 

[fullinfusion]

Well that be cool, and be sure to update us on the cooling

 

[D007]

Good for number 6th spot till these dam 980's start posting .

fullinfusion 2 xR9 290@1037mhz gpu/1360mhz mem

Meh the 980 drivers suck anyway. We won't get decent scores for a bit.

 

[toppedro]

gtx 560 at 1000mhz clock and 1200mhz memory with i7 2600 at 3.4ghz

 

[tanaka6149]

Pushing hard with my old processor

 

[purecain]

im getting my work space ready to add this lot to one of my 290's http://img.techpowerup.org/141006/20141006_223428.jpg

if its an impressive increase in fps in general with one card i'll no doubt water cool the other as well... one card is usually sat disabled, but with the arrivel of next gen gpu insensive games I think I will be needing both cards soon, im managing now as im not yet using a 4k monitor...

 

[HipCheck]

New Results with GSkill DDR3-2133
i-7 3770K @ 4.4GHz
2x SLI Zotac GTX 970 @ 1445 Boost / 8000 Mem

New GSkill DDR3-2133

 

[purecain]

update and general advice for people considering buying /overclocking their 290's....

for the best benchmarking scores you'll find cards using Hynix instead of elpida gddr5 reach on average 300mhz higher when oc'd...

after much speculation by the bitmining community, 290's carrying Hynix gddr5 have also been proved to have better timings allowing them to do more work per clock cycle.

due to Hynix having a fire at their factory most AMD reference cards used elpida. as is the case with one of my cards possibly both.

benching with the stock cooler sees the 290gpu being throttled as the temps spiral to 90+degrees. there is also a bubbling effect of the paint in hot areas on the back side of the card...

so adding water cooling not only stops this completely but it also shows in games as everything seems to run much more fluid than it did before...

lastly Sapphire have recently released a new 290 tri-X oc. they use the amd reference card and as such the bios should be compatible with other early reference 290's.

im using the asus bios atm but I will experiment and run valley using both.

the NZXTx41 aio water cooling is by no means the same standard as the corsair varients imo.

the first thing I noticed was that both fans made irritating noises and the water block even made a weird sound... so I would advise buying the G10 bracket/VRM sinks/corsair aio watercooling.

the sounds have settled down now but the finished result is not what I expected. these are my first impressions from a retail sample. if things improve I will edit this post.


heres a few pics of the water cooling being fitted to one of my cards... im still working on clocks...

http://img.techpowerup.org/141008/20141007_100532.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/141008/20141007_113625.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/141008/20141007_115917.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/141008/20141007_141013.jpg

initial run 3360 290x at 1150mhz gpu/1295mhz mem up from 3197 max single card score...


and again single 290x@1180/1312 and still going...

290x@1190/1264 1point away from the next position up on the leaderboard...

290x@1200/1264 10mhz on core yielded an extra 17points.

 

[purecain]

R9 290@1220/1264


getting there...

last bench of the day... R9 290@1240/1256


im happy with the improvement so far... 3514 on a single card. i'll try one more run tomorrow before I start benching both cards...

 

[fullinfusion]

R9 290@1220/1264


getting there...

last bench of the day... R9 290@1240/1256


im happy with the improvement so far... 3514 on a single card. i'll try one more run tomorrow before I start benching both cards...

Whats the stock clocks?

And love the pictures of your water cooling mod. The memory coolers look like big gold nuggets

 

[purecain]

the card is a HIS R9 290X bf4 edition with stock clocks @925/1250 and @1240/1270 the card still has a little more to give.

im going to go straight for 1270/1275 and see if that bumps my score up past 3550... I just wish I had picked up a card with Hynix memory... the extra bandwidth would of been a big help.

also has anyone seen those videos on YouTube of game timed bench's being run on gtx780/Ti/980 and R9 290x. the fps on the 290 are better in that particular setup than the 780. so power tune and NVidia's version of this throttling was in full effect. not so much on the gtx780Ti which in another video ran quicker than the newer gtx980. although the newer stream shaders are supposedly 40% more efficient, they are definitely not quicker. so the amount of shaders on the 980 is puzzling.
invariably when people upgrade their gpu, it is for extra performance so as to improve the quality of their gaming experience not just to use less power. not when upgrading costs $$$$

the gtx980 performs well out of the box, but compared to a water cooled gtx780Ti it is not going to be much quicker if at all. and the 290 was at times in front of both the 780ti and the 980. only not for very long and weather this was due to the stock card throttling... we will never know.

so I await better drivers and more gtx980 scores with much anticipation as I was going to upgrade. now im not so sure...

this close up is for you fullinfusion.... "Never Throttle edition 290x" its here to kick ass and chew gum... and its all outa gum!!!!!


R9 290x @ 1180/1398