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Geek Culture / Want to stress test my new GPU. Any good demos out there?

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 20:24
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Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded to a SuperClocked GeForce GTX 650ti with 2GB GDDR5 Memory, and needless to say, Skyrim looks insanely awesome on my PC now.

However, I would like to try out some other games on the card to see just how good it is (got it on sale at Best Buy and it was an impulse buy for $199), and I'm wondering if anybody has any good recommendations for demos? Google isn't yielding much that isn't Crysis 2 or Skyrim, so I was hoping you guys could help me out with this!

And while I'm at it, what's your Steam name? I have 0 friends on steam and it's lonely. My username is yodamanjer, if anyone would like to friend my lonely soul.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 20:36 Edited at: 5th Jul 2013 20:38
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I've got a GeForce GTX 650ti 1gb, I'd probably say something like the Final Fantasy XIV benchmark is a good test and also the Tomb Raider benchmark (or just Tomb Raider in general), sadly I don't think there's a demo. I would run it without TresFX as I don't think it's optimised for NVidia cards.

Alternatively there's Unigine, which can be downloaded off of NVidia's site, which will stress the system, but also demonstrates the awesomeness of Direct X 11.

Also, my steam name is Seppuku05


I personally love the card, so I hope it brings you as much joy.

I wrote a review showing some of my tests, so maybe you could try similar tests. Linky

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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 20:51
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Unigine valley is an awesome looking benchmark program.
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 20:53
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There's always 3DMark

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 21:40
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Tried out Unigine. Even with everything on ultra high, my system got on average between 25-30 FPS (with vsync on, for some reason!), then when I went the next step down and shut off the vsync cap, I got between 30-45+ FPS. All in all, pretty decent card!

I imagine getting a second one and running an SLI system would just make this thing an epic gaming machine... *drool*

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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 21:44
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I recommend Heaven. You can sit back and enjoy eye candy while it's benchmarking.

http://unigine.com/products/heaven/
http://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/



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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 21:59
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OK, so this card is not good for tessellation.

On the "Normal" setting for tessellation, I got on average 25 FPS. That was with Anti-Aliasing set to 2x and Ambient Occlusion off as well... so, yeah, not very good at all.

But like I said, if I got a second one, it would probably be phenomenal!

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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 22:25
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It does tesselation fine for games that use it, for example Batman: Arkham City, I run mine at max settings and it runs beautifully, however, I have to turn off PhysX because it conflicts with Games for Windows Live and you need to log in order to save your game, which really sucks. Only game I've got that makes good use of the PhysX capabilities of the card is Borderlands 2, which looks shiny on it.

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Very interesting - they have 3 3d artists and no regular artists, I mean those wasn't their own textures?

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 5th Jul 2013 22:57
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Quote: "It does tesselation fine for games that use it, for example Batman: Arkham City, I run mine at max settings and it runs beautifully"


Yeah, I'm sure games that use run fine, I just wish the tech demo ran better. Still ran great, just not as well as I was hoping.

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Posted: 6th Jul 2013 01:37 Edited at: 6th Jul 2013 01:39
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Quote: "On the "Normal" setting for tessellation, I got on average 25 FPS. That was with Anti-Aliasing set to 2x and Ambient Occlusion off as well... so, yeah, not very good at all. "




My GTX 580 scores around 40 fps on the highest settings, so your 25 fps isn't too shabby at all.

The demo is meant to stress test your GPU, so it's obviously not going to run at 60 fps. If you switch to wireframe mode (F2 I think) and then toggle tessellation on and off (F3 I think), you'll see how insanely high the tessellation has been set.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Jul 2013 18:21 Edited at: 7th Jul 2013 18:22
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Quote: "My GTX 580 scores around 40 fps on the highest settings, so your 25 fps isn't too shabby at all."


But I have a 650 ti, so surely it should at least run at the 40FPS you're getting with your 580?

Unless other parts of your computer are more powerful than mine, of course.

Quote: "The demo is meant to stress test your GPU, so it's obviously not going to run at 60 fps. If you switch to wireframe mode (F2 I think) and then toggle tessellation on and off (F3 I think), you'll see how insanely high the tessellation has been set."


Tried that, and yeah you're right! Even at normal settings, tessellation was very, very high. I could probably tone it down to moderate and have it run great!

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Posted: 7th Jul 2013 19:00 Edited at: 7th Jul 2013 19:01
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Quote: "But I have a 650 ti, so surely it should at least run at the 40FPS you're getting with your 580?"


Just because the number is bigger doesn't necessarily make it more powerful. The first digit represents the family of the card, yours is part of the 600 family, mine of the 500 family. The family defines compatibility. For example, the 300 series doesn't support shader model 4.0, but the 400 series does. The second digit denotes the power of the card. I haven't been able to find specific information on that, other than the following wikipedia page:



So the GTX 650 would be classified as a "business graphics card".

I'm not sure if this is correct, but the x90s appear to always be just two x80s cards hooked up in parallel.

Comparing your card to mine, you'll see that the GTX 580 outperforms the GTX 650 by quite an amount. I also see that the price of the GTX 650 is ludicrous compared to what it performs:



The GTX 680 is very cheap on this chart, and performs very well.

Hope that clears up a few things.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Jul 2013 19:36 Edited at: 7th Jul 2013 20:58
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...I think I might return the card. Seems it wasn't a very worthy upgrade after all.

EDIT: Well, it still is significantly better than my previous card, and I can't really afford a 680 (it's double what I paid for the 650 Ti), so maybe I will hang on to it. Most games run excellent on it anyway, and Skyrim plays without any slowdown whatsoever, so really I'm probably ok.

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Quote: "I imagine getting a second one and running an SLI system would just make this thing an epic gaming machine... *drool*"


I can't find the thread, but not long ago there was a thread on here for the results of the Heaven benchmark. Phaelax had the same card as mine (a gtx560, though his was slightly higher spec'd) and a better CPU, but my 560's in SLI performed significantly higher. I've yet to run into a game that I can't play on max settings with smooth framerates.

Also, I added you on Steam a while ago, not sure if you accepted or not (username: budokaiman).


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@TheComet:
Quote: "The GTX 680 is very cheap on this chart, and performs very well."


I think you're not reading that chart correctly. If it shows Score divided by price higher values should be better. (It says "higher results represent better value" at the top after all) So the 650Ti has a much better price/performance ratio than the 680 even though the latter one obviously performs much better.
(And a very brief search showed that GTX680 seem to be ridiculously expensive)

And now I'm wondering how my laptop would perform, with its GT540M 2GB (plus an Intel onboard chip with the nVidia Optimus switching thingy)...
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Posted: 10th Jul 2013 15:02
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Ah, you're correct. My mistake.

Quote: "GT540M 2GB"


I have a GT540M in my laptop, and its Heaven Benchmark score was 54 on the highest settings (DX11, tessellation->extreme, anisotropic x16, anti-aliasing x8, 1366x768x32 fullscreen).

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 11th Jul 2013 01:58
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I'm returning the card. Gonna use the money to go towards my GS4 instead when I purchase it next week.

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