Benchmark results, food for thought

Difference between R9 280X and RX480 at same settings.

 

Hello,

how is the FX performance with 24-36Al 100% in low graphics settings(at start of a race) and in multiplayer nordschleife full server. May by it is time for some upgrade if >90fps is possible in this scenarios.

TY

 

Just wait for Ryzen.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/am...h-r15-score-close-to-intel-core-i7-6800k.html

 

It is fine for me but I play with vsync so 60 FPS max. It is 40-50 on start when all cars visible but after when they spread more it is stable 60 frames.
Tried without Vsync - seems to be CPU is bottleneck in this case so 100-110 FPS and 92-95% CPU in Performance Display app.

 

AC VERSION: 1.12.6 (x64)
POINTS: 14094
FPS: AVG=96 MIN=46 MAX=195 VARIANCE=22 CPU=76%

LOADING TIME: 23s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 840M (1280x720)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 4
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:1X AF:0X SHDW:512 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 0 SMOKE:1
PP: QLT:3 HDR:0 FXAA:1 GLR:3 DOF:3 RAYS:1 HEAT:1

No changes to the hardware, just redoing benchmark on a newer version

 

Just installed my PNY GTX1070.
Here are some updated benchmarks with my GTX970 at PCIe 2.0 with every slider maxed.... then at PCIe 3.0 same setting...and finally GTX1070 everything again maxed.

 

Updated from: EVGA GTX 970 SuperClocked+ ACX 2.0
To: EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 (basic clocks)

did benchmark before and after, just changing the GPU:

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 13217
FPS: AVG=90 MIN=47 MAX=134 VARIANCE=1 CPU=46%

LOADING TIME: 34s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: OFF
AA:4X AF:16X SHDW:4096 BLUR:12
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:5
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:1 GLR:5 DOF:5 RAYS:1 HEAT:1




AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 14480
FPS: AVG=98 MIN=46 MAX=155 VARIANCE=2 CPU=51%

LOADING TIME: 34s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: OFF
AA:4X AF:16X SHDW:4096 BLUR:12
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:5
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:1 GLR:5 DOF:5 RAYS:1 HEAT:1

 

Again, if you're already running AA 4X, do yourself a favor and disable FXAA on top of it (last option on the effects settings). It'll only blur your image (mostly on cockpit dials and dash maps), and take away any sharpness on distant objects.
IMHO running FXXA over a light AA is great when you're under-powered gpu-wise, but over something decent as 4X will only degrade the image quality.

 

I have been leaving FXAA on just for benchmarking so it is more standardized. It's hard enough to compare cards when people lower the smoke, and change the different Post Processing settings. Even if people use full max settings, we still have to deal with different CPUs. So less variables the better, IMO.

 

So I pushed through the updated for win10 to the creators edition. As i didnt want it to auto download just before race night or during race. These are the settings I use day to day, not the show and shine settings.

here are my results. Take what you want out of em.

BEFORE

Code:

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 16955
FPS: AVG=115 MIN=34 MAX=158 VARIANCE=10 CPU=91%

LOADING TIME: 21s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (5760x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 4
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:16X SHDW:1024 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 4 SMOKE:3
PP: QLT:4 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:2 DOF:3 RAYS:0 HEAT:0

---

AFTER

Code:

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 17946
FPS: AVG=122 MIN=32 MAX=173 VARIANCE=7 CPU=83%

LOADING TIME: 19s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (5760x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 4
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:16X SHDW:1024 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 4 SMOKE:3
PP: QLT:4 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:2 DOF:3 RAYS:0 HEAT:0

 

Are you sure you are on the creators edition (the was a big update to the 1607 version recently)? You should see a toggle for gamer mode... In the settings section. If you don't see that then you don't have creators edition.

I lost about 10FPS and even more with gamer mode on. It hosed up the Nvidia driver so I had to do a clean driver install too. I turned gamer mode off.

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Yer man on creators, game toggle there.

Like I said take from it what you will. I wouldn't have thought a jump like tahr that.

But I did a bench just before updating and just after. There results where boot then test.

 

Did you really activate game mode?
The slider does nothing without further actions, unless the game is supported and you see the game bar at game start.

You need to

1. Launch your game of choice. Windows 10 will prompt you to open Game bar using Windows key + G combination. If it doesn’t, the game doesn’t have support currently.
2. Press Windows key + G, or hit the Xbox button on your gamepad.
3. Click the Settings icon to the extreme right on the Game bar.
4. In the dialog box that opens, check the box for Use Game Mode for this game.

 

Ok, so is AC supported or not?

 

Moved my game and OS drives (where AC and Windows are stored, to the faster controller interface) and did some more benchmarking this morning....

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x86)
POINTS: 21941
FPS: AVG=149 MIN=42 MAX=179 VARIANCE=7 CPU=90%

LOADING TIME: 24s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:4X SHDW:2048 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 4 SMOKE:1
PP: QLT:4 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:4 DOF:0 RAYS:1 HEAT:0

 

If it doesn't pop, it just means that the game bar overlay fails, not that you can't enable game mode or that it isn't supported for a specific exe. Just temporarily switch to windowed mode so you can see the game bar, set the game (in this case while running under acs.exe, not launcher.exe) to use game mode if you care for it.

 

Wow!
After posting that benchmark above, I noticed that my AC install was running (x86) compared to everybody else.
I enabled 64 bit...did a system restart and again ran the benchmark with no other changes.
The results were a bit of a surprise....

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 23862
FPS: AVG=162 MIN=65 MAX=201 VARIANCE=11 CPU=81%

LOADING TIME: 25s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:4X SHDW:2048 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 4 SMOKE:1
PP: QLT:4 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:4 DOF:0 RAYS:1 HEAT:0

 

Thanks. I followed your instructions and compared both w/ it on and with it off. No notable difference.
Gamer Mode On
AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 17294
FPS: AVG=118 MIN=64 MAX=225 VARIANCE=0 CPU=47%
LOADING TIME: 12s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:8X AF:16X SHDW:4096 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:5
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:1 GLR:5 DOF:5 RAYS:1 HEAT:1


Gamer Mode Off
AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 17324
FPS: AVG=118 MIN=67 MAX=191 VARIANCE=0 CPU=44%
LOADING TIME: 12s
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1920x1080)
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
CPU CORES: 8
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:8X AF:16X SHDW:4096 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:5
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:1 GLR:5 DOF:5 RAYS:1 HEAT:1

Note I'm running the game at 8X AA.

I did notice the CPU core usage was rather peculiar with gamer mode on. 26 911 RSR grid at Monza Multi-player. Core 1 was no longer reported as fully used w/ gamer mode on...instead I got some of the other cores doing some heavy lifting.

 

No game mode for AC wasn't enabled. Was just a comparison between updates. But now I'll do another two, one b4 again and another after I toggle it on. Thx for the info.

 

I did a run on my old R9 280 default clocks/PT before I installed a Powercolor RX480 Red Dragon 8GB

Code:

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 11948
FPS: AVG=81 MIN=57 MAX=119 VARIANCE=2 CPU=60%

LOADING TIME: 17s
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (2560x1080)
OS-Version: 6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1) 0x300-0x1
CPU CORES: 4
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:8X SHDW:2048 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:2
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:4 DOF:0 RAYS:1 HEAT:1

Code:

AC VERSION: 1.13.2 (x64)
POINTS: 19446
FPS: AVG=132 MIN=90 MAX=180 VARIANCE=5 CPU=77%

LOADING TIME: 17s
GPU: Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics (2560x1080)
OS-Version: 6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1) 0x300-0x1
CPU CORES: 4
FULLSCREEN: ON
AA:4X AF:8X SHDW:2048 BLUR:0
WORLD DETAIL: 5 SMOKE:2
PP: QLT:5 HDR:1 FXAA:0 GLR:4 DOF:0 RAYS:1 HEAT:1