The GTX 560 TI

[Taxmancometh]

Well, I just got the beast and installed the PSU and ran Furmark. At a resolution of 1024x640 I get a score of 2722. What I don't understand is that when I go to Furmarks's website they show Radeon HD 6950's that are at about 3500 points! Are they using crossfire or what!

What are your scores btw?

Found this GeForce GTX 560 Ti review

I was wondering. What kind of PSU would I need to one day do SLI with these cards? My current PSU is these. Newegg.com - Antec High Current Gamer Series HCG-520 520W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.91 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

I plan on building an AMD 6 core machine sometime latter and maybe SLI two of these monsters.

I never did a SLI config. before. How is it done? I noticed that the card has a connection point on top. I'm assuming this is for SLI and you use a cable of some sort.

[ShyguyXPC]

1024x640 is a really odd resolution.

[ShyguyXPC]

What settings are you running the benchmark at (Antialiasing/MSAA Setting)

[ShyguyXPC]

Using version 1.7.0 of Furmark, at 1920x1080 res, 4x AA setting, Full Screen, with my GTX 470 running at stock speeds.

I get 5160 for a Score.

[Taxmancometh]

I just edited my post above. Let me run Furmark at those resolutions.

[Taxmancometh]

Using version 1.7.0 of Furmark, at 1920x1080 res, 4x AA setting, Full Screen, with my GTX 470 running at stock speeds.

I get 5160 for a Score.

Using version 1.9.1 I get 1073 points. Is my card bad or what?!

Nvidia driver version 280.26

[ShyguyXPC]

I only get 1285 on version 1.9.1 (all the same settings as the other run, Full Screen 1920x1080, 4x AA, other settings unchanged defaults)

Could be the version that was run to bench the card that could be giving the low score.


Check out that Max temp on this run with this version

[Taxmancometh]

Yeah, my temp peaks at about 90 C.

[ShyguyXPC]

My higher score on this run could be the CPU I'm running, i7 920, could be a bit of a bottleneck somewhere.

But I wouldn't be too concerned if your getting a lower score, as these are just benchmarks and not really in game performance measures.


as to SLI, as far as I know, there are no current AMD chipsets that will support SLI, so that sort of option with AMD is a no go right now.


I forget, but what CPU do you have right now?

I can't remember, but did you say your still running Windows XP? If so, that could be part of the problem too (DX9 and no DX10 being run, reducing performance a bit)

As to a PSU for SLI, a good 600-650W would be plenty, We commented a bit on it in the BF3 thread: Battlefield 3 Thread

[ShyguyXPC]

Yeah, my temp peaks at about 90 C.

Furmark tends to run cards hotter than most games and software will, as well as boost power usage, which is why a lot of review sites no longer use it for benchmarking.

[Taxmancometh]

Here's what I get.

Q6600 2.4 GHz Win XP 64 DirectX 10

I use to run an overclock but it wouldn't hold anymore and I don't know why. Board is a Gigabyte 965P-DS3

[ShyguyXPC]

Thats odd, the settings show 4x AA, but the results are showing 8x (8 Samples) for AA.

I'd give it another run and make sure its running 4x AA, and see what you get.

But I noticed your OS is Server 2003 (Basically XP), so could be some sort of DX issues.

What Nvidia Drivers are you using?

[Taxmancometh]

Thats odd, the settings show 4x AA, but the results are showing 8x (8 Samples) for AA.

I'd give it another run and make sure its running 4x AA, and see what you get.

But I noticed your OS is Server 2003 (Basically XP), so could be some sort of DX issues.

What Nvidia Drivers are you using?

Nvidia driver version 280.26 latest.

I'll give it another run. Yeah, I know the damn thing says 8 for samples and I don't know why.

[Taxmancometh]

Well, I can't seem to get rid of the 8 samples no matter what setting I set to. I tried 0 samples and here is what I get.

[Taxmancometh]

This is what DXdiag says.

[ShyguyXPC]

as to DX, like I mentioned a few days back, or last week, even though you have DX10 installed it will only use the DX9 part of DX10, in Windows XP OS's.


Could be thats part of the problem. DX9 score being a bit lower than DX10.




Download, Install and run this Demo (its a Non Playable Game demo, Its mainly DX9, though I think the game has some DX10 support as well), but the Demo was released as DX9.

X³: Terran Conflict Rolling Demo (unplayable) download - Mod DB

Its actual game renderings.

Run it in 1920x1080 with everything jacked up, I'll post a screen shot or two after this reply.

Attaching a screen shot of my settings (forgot to checkmark "Run As Benchmark")


Once its run, it will pop up with a window asking to save the results plus show the average frame rate of the run.

I've been using this Benchmark and a previous one for a few years now when doing comparisons. rather than relying solely on 3DMark and Furmark and others.


But the Benchmark takes a while, as it goes through 3 or 4 stages, so just sit back, enjoy the scenery and the music/sound with it

(the last part of the demo you'll get a thrill out of if you've never played this game or the series before, I have the 2nd game in the series, as well as the 3rd and 4th, and YES you can get out of your ship in game in space suit, and some stations and ships are THAT BIG, unfortunately you can't really go in them and explore)

[ShyguyXPC]

Results from the run on my end (copied from the Benchmark saved file it creates):

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X3 - Terran Conflict
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Game Version: 1.2.0.0

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Graphics Card Info: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 [4059 MB] Driver: 8.17.0012.6658
CPU Info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Usable System Memory: 6144 MB


Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 * [32], fullscreen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 8x
Anisotropic Mode: 16x

Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: enabled
More Dynamic Lights: enabled
Used Vertexsize: 40 bytes

Framerates
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Scene "Trade" 40.0 average fps 15.0 minimum fps 92.0 maximum fps
Scene "Fight" 88.3 average fps 33.0 minimum fps 198.0 maximum fps
Scene "Build" 115.6 average fps 67.0 minimum fps 201.0 maximum fps
Scene "Think" 52.1 average fps 27.0 minimum fps 100.0 maximum fps

Overall average framerate: 74.0 fps


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[Taxmancometh]

It will be awhile before this downloads. I have 350 k speed from the server.

Edit! Tried a new server, got 1.1 MB/sec.

[ShyguyXPC]

ouch

[Taxmancometh]

WOW! I HAVE GOT TO GET THIS GAME! I ran the damn thing forgeting to run as benchmark. So I had a smoke, came back and was still on, I was like WTH. So I hit esc and found out that I didn't run as bench mark. :hehe:

Here are my results.


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X3 - Terran Conflict
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Game Version: 1.2.0.0

Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_rtm.070216-1710)
DirectX Version: DirectX 10.0 (4.10.0000.5515)
Graphics Card Info: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti [1024 MB] Driver: 6.14.0012.8026
CPU Info: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Usable System Memory: 6142 MB


Video Settings During Benchmark:
Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080 * [32], fullscreen
Using Shader Profile: 3.0
Antialias Mode: 8x
Anisotropic Mode: 16x

Graphics & Shader Settings:
Texture Quality: high
Shader Quality: high
High Quality Bumpmaps: enabled
Environment Mapping: enabled
Glow Filter: enabled
Ship Color Variations: enabled
More Dynamic Lights: enabled
Used Vertexsize: 40 bytes

Framerates
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Scene "Trade" 25.0 average fps 7.0 minimum fps 58.0 maximum fps
Scene "Fight" 55.1 average fps 20.0 minimum fps 131.0 maximum fps
Scene "Build" 75.6 average fps 42.0 minimum fps 183.0 maximum fps
Scene "Think" 34.2 average fps 17.0 minimum fps 66.0 maximum fps

Overall average framerate: 47.5 fps


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