GPU Test System Update March 2021

[Caring1]

Of course


Got a bunch of them in Event Viewer, but no issues with stability. Not a single crash in two weeks of benchmarking

With so many people reporting them when using uneven Cas latency, perhaps a bit of fine tuning with the Ram could help, or use different Ram with an even Cas, such as 18.

 

[tvamos]

So where is the new power/energy efficiency chart?

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

Is "Red Dead Redemption 2" not that popular ?

How are you the getting the "popular titles" is all I'm wondering, is there some kind of poll is or this taken from Platform survey ?

This may be silly suggestion but cost/per-Transistors, and then, performance /pre-watt+ cost/per transistors.

 

[HD64G]

Great and hard work you did there @W1zzard. And much needed after Zen3 is proven to be such a great CPU gen being so efficient and having all the features.

 

[Axaion]

noice.

 

[Anymal]

I almost always cite your graphs in local forum, nice to see its more representative for power consumption, great work.
Btw, do you have any card for sale? PM, I am from EU.

 

[W1zzard]

With the highest number of cards listed being Guru3D

According to the specs page in this review these are recycled results, mixed between Intel and Ryzen test systems?

Yeah, crazy russians over at GameGPU got few more, around 30 I think it was. And they test them with over 30 different CPUs, too, each.

simulated/estimated results

Is "Red Dead Redemption 2" not that popular ?

How are you the getting the "popular titles" is all I'm wondering, is there some kind of poll is or this taken from Platform survey ?

It is very popular, why would you think otherwise? It's included in the benchmarks and will be there until 2022 at least. Number of Steam reviews, amount of noise on social media, personal dice roll

 

[Anymal]

rdr2 until gta6

 

[W1zzard]

Woudn't it have been more efficient to wait until the end of the month when Nvidia has rolled out their vBios for Resizable BAR to retest those games? Seems like a bit of double work.

I wanted to get things done before 6700 xt launch, and also to have a good Baseline for bar testing

 

[damric]

I just installed a 5800x on my wife's X470 Pro Carbon. I am amazed how fast that thing runs. With stock settings, no BIOS changes at all, it was turbo past 4.9GHz according to task manager. I'm going to play around with it tomorrow and see if I can tune up even more performance.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Have you ever done any internal testing on whether Ray-tracing and/or DLSS affects the power consumption of the video card? Since there is a lot of dedicated silicon (moreso in Nvidia cards than AMD cards), I'm curious if these features add any more power when utilized, or if balances out with bottlenecks elsewhere in the GPU.

 

[Mussels]

I'm just excited that my hardware matches the TPU test bench for the first time, ever


Thoughts:
1. daaang, 2000Mhz 1:1 is the ryzen dream
2. What an interesting find that certain titles get CPU limited on AMD but not Nvidia, screwing with the power results.
3. I love the concept of a 60FPS power measurement, vs an unlimited one. That one statistic really shows the difference between an average gamer, and the nutters like me at 165Hz 1440p and how we can see the same hardware have totally different noise and heat results.
4. Radeon VII BIOS fail. deeeerppp.

5. okay for the RT results, since you have the same device with different RT settings why not have the main result in the grey bar, but then add slimmer bars into the mix showing the RT results?
Standard, quality, performance all touching each other so we can the one product behaves at different settings

MS paint example (CBF putting fake text in)

 

[mechtech]

I'm just excited that my hardware matches the TPU test bench for the first time, ever

I'm just happy my hardware is working and I don't have to try to replace a GPU right now

 

[Mussels]

Of course


Got a bunch of them in Event Viewer, but no issues with stability. Not a single crash in two weeks of benchmarking

check that they arent causing a performance degradation due to ECC - some WHEA errors are meaningless, most of us in the zen clubhouse here on TPU can run 3800 or 3900 1:1 with no errors and stick with it out of fear of performance hiccups

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Plez leave the 580/1060 in there
they are popular cards

 

[Prima.Vera]

Cyberpunk doesn't have a DLSS option also for the Raytracing?

 

[Flanker]

Lol @ Radeon VII, AMD forgot they existed

 

[nangu]

check that they arent causing a performance degradation due to ECC - some WHEA errors are meaningless, most of us in the zen clubhouse here on TPU can run 3800 or 3900 1:1 with no errors and stick with it out of fear of performance hiccups

Exactly. Those WHEA errors logged can be warnings because bus interconnect error corrections, which in turn might degrade performance in some way, leading to stuttering and/or frametime spikes, etc.

I understand the need to get the fastest CPU when testing GPU's, but running that kit at 3800Mt/s / 1900 Mhz IF with a little bit lower timings, totally stable and WHEA free, it would be a more real scenario IMHO, attainable for most people with good memory kits.

Anyway, thanks for the update not only on the system, but in the new methodology to plot power consumption. I really appreciate the hard work involved in this kind of tests.

Cheers.

 

[sk8er]

Hasn't been in our charts since May 2019. First time I hear about anyone asking for 1050 Ti.

If Vega64 stay, would you at least add 1080 Ti, please xD
Flagship to flagship comparison around generation would be nice..
1080 Ti > 2080 Ti (100%) > 3090
Just like Vega 64 / Radeon VII > 6900 XT

Thanks

 

[nguyen]

Yeah a 16GBx2 3600mhz Cas 16 RAM config would have been much better choice than 8GBx2 4000mhz Cas 19 IMO, higher performance, better stability and better future proof.

Techspot Dual Rank testing
That's 10-15% fps improvement just from dual ranks to quad ranks config

 

[Selaya]

Plez leave the 580/1060 in there
they are popular cards

If Vega64 stay, would you at least add 1080 Ti, please xD
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I agree. Additionally, I feel like yesteryear's greats like the 980Ti, R9 390/Fury and stuff would be quite useful too (these are all still great for 1080-60), especially given the current situation with dGPUs. Heck, could even make a dedicated comparison thread or something if the charts get too clogged for the general reviews.

 

[Anymal]

Luckly tpu is not the only tech reviews site if you want something different, tpu cannot take everything in consideration.

 

[shk021051]

I wish you guys add compare tools

 

[ribizly]

I just miss GTX10xx series from the results.

 

[birdie]

@W1zzard

1. I really want the GTX 1060 to be featured in results because it's still the most popular GPU according to Steam HW Survey. I know this website is focused on enthusiasts but you'll gain a lot more readership if you also cater to the lowest common denominator.

2. Sorry for the world of hurt, but I'd love to see Energy Efficiency for 1080p as well because absolute most gamers still game at this resolution, so it does matter.