Unigine Heaven 4.0 Benchmark Scores

[jordan1794]

both monitors are being run off the gpu, AMD cpu w/o those onboard graphics bro +
so i have a 144hz monitor and i really wanna be able to stay above or really close to 144fps in AAA titles like battlefield, farcry and stuff, should i trade up to a 980? wait for new gpus, or get another 970+new mobo (mine doesn't support SLI atm) + not really happy with my 970 cause its volt locked

I think you would see a marginal increase if you disconnected the second monitor during benchmarking.

And a heads up, gtx 980 won't go above 1.25v without a BIOS flash.
(Which even with EVGA's AMAZING warranty, will void it, unless you get their new card that has 3 BIOS's)
Pretty much what is holding me back now, I don't think I'm willing to flash the BIOS (Even though I've heard there are ways to restore it if you really fluff up.)

 

[jordan1794]

Overclocked my processor to 4.7 Ghz, expected to get a little gain.
I got 1 point, hahahahaha.
Not even worth posting it

 

[s4in7]

Yeah, this bench doesn't touch the CPU at all. Valley however...

 

[s4in7]

Nice score Chico! With a small bump to core and memory clocks you could see over 3500

 

[chicobrew]

Nice score Chico! With a small bump to core and memory clocks you could see over 3500

Thanks S4in7 New to this game (sort of): Whats the best way to do that in a safe way?

 

[BiggieShady]

 

[jordan1794]

Thanks S4in7 New to this game (sort of): Whats the best way to do that in a safe way?

You can use Precision x from EVGA, very user friendly.
Just set the power target to 124%, and then bump your core clock up one notch at a time until it crashes.
Repeat with memory clock(but probably start with jumps of 100 mhz, as the memory clock you should be able to get close to an offset of at least 500 Mhz.)

As long as your temps are good increasing the power target will not harm your card, voltage increasing is where you can cause damage (even then you can pretty safely add 25 Mv, or even more, but without a BIOS flash a 25 Mv addition is all you can do, card is limited to 1.25 total voltage.)

Honestly, from the posts here, I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't achieve at least +75 Mhz on your core as well.

 

[s4in7]

What jordan said. EVGA PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner are great utilities for safely OCing and have the same basic method: max out power target, increase core speed until unstable, back off 10-15MHz, then do the same for memory.

Before I got the 980, I had an EVGA SSC 970 and I want to say it got to 1491 core and like 1850 on the mem all without touching voltage so you definitely have headroom.

 

[MrGenius]

I could do worse for a 280X...and an E8600. Got exactly the same score(1020), only with slightly different Min FPS, @ 1190/1850 & 1183/1875. The former had the slightly higher Min FPS. So I went with that...for the record(pardon the pun).

EDIT: After installing the latest 15.3 beta drivers my top score @ 1190/1850 improved a little too(4 points )

E8600 @ 3.33GHz + MSI 280X Gaming 3GB OC @ 1190/1850 = FPS: 40.7 / Score: 1024 / Min FPS: 14.8 / Max FPS: 88.8

 

[stefanels]

 

[T1GERTEA]

I think you would see a marginal increase if you disconnected the second monitor during benchmarking.

And a heads up, gtx 980 won't go above 1.25v without a BIOS flash.
(Which even with EVGA's AMAZING warranty, will void it, unless you get their new card that has 3 BIOS's)
Pretty much what is holding me back now, I don't think I'm willing to flash the BIOS (Even though I've heard there are ways to restore it if you really fluff up.)

is it true that some 970s come volt locked and some don't?

 

[jordan1794]

is it true that some 970s come volt locked and some don't?

I don't know much about it, but I'd imagine nearly all cards have some kind of volt limiter in their BIOS.
If they didn't it would be far too easy for people to burn the card out and then try to claim it under warranty...
If you flash a BIOS, there is practically 0 chance that you don't know that you are potentially endangering your card.

 

[T1GERTEA]

I don't know much about it, but I'd imagine nearly all cards have some kind of volt limiter in their BIOS.
If they didn't it would be far too easy for people to burn the card out and then try to claim it under warranty...
If you flash a BIOS, there is practically 0 chance that you don't know that you are potentially endangering your card.

JW becasue some people hit 1.25 but mine maxes at 1.212

 

[Dontworriaboutit]

Finished my bios mod, got some pretty crazy speed, though... not enough to topple the top guys. :|

1631/2035

GPUZ and MSI AB for speed validation.

 

[Dontworriaboutit]

JW becasue some people hit 1.25 but mine maxes at 1.212

Yes I have heard this, and I had a Strix at one point and BIOS flashes wouldn't volt it. I have read it elsewhere as well.

 

[s4in7]

Great score dontworrieaboutit! Those are some crazy high clocks--maybe too high as I'm scoring 10 points less than you with 80MHz less on the core and 30MHz less on memory. You may be pushing it too hard and thus hurting your potential score.

Too much on either clock can lead to performance degradation even without crashing. Mind if I look at your BIOS? I'll share mine if you want

 

[Dontworriaboutit]

On my power table, only the top section was was changed from stock

 

[FX-GMC]

 

[flexinhard]

Now time to break it with voltage

 

[FX-GMC]

Now time to break it with voltage

Doesn't do any good. Had it up to 1.35v and it still won't finish a run without crashing above 1300MHz. Wouldn't doubt if someone returned it for that very reason and that is why it was "recertified".

I'm not complaining though. It's still faster than the 780.

 

[flexinhard]

Doesn't do any good. Had it up to 1.35v and it still won't finish a run without crashing above 1300MHz. Wouldn't doubt if someone returned it for that very reason and that is why it was "recertified".

I'm not complaining though. It's still faster than the 780.

Damn even 1.35? They jipped you! No, but in all seriousness, thats pretty awesome that they gave you an upgrade. I had a 780 classified and it is an amazing card. So fun to overclock. Im getting a titan x soon. We will see how that goes.

 

[Alterus]

asus 780 ti dc2 1505mhz/2000 1.35v water
i7 3770k 4.8 HT-on 1.375v water
samsung BH0 2400 10-12-12-24-1t
win7 x64

 

[jordan1794]

Whoa. Nice score man!

 

[Daphonic]

Just finished building my dream build but running into many problems.

Mother board only sees 16 of 32 gigs of Ram.
And this Benchmark Says the Titan X only has 4 gigs of Ram?

 

[usmc362]

Ran this today; not bad for a lappy