AMD 7970 LEO DEMO DX11 1920X1080 CROSSFIRE 2X ATI 5850 @950Mhz Q9550 @4.0GHz

[zsimen]

@dino17011

Good choice, even 5850 is faster than 6850 and every 5850 u can overclock to 1GHz/5GHz.

[MixerGamingHD]

nice

[Spyker2041]

Is there anywhere I can find a list of all the gfx cards you own at the moment?

[toutagamon]

@Spyker2041

Yes here! :P

two 570s

two 5850s

one 460 1GB

[toutagamon]

@dino17011

Maybe it's a second rate brand, but hey what the hell it's a freagin 5870. Good buy!

[toutagamon]

@dino17011

The 5870 is definitely better. Only 100$ though? wtf?

[RiptorSLO]

dat asses

[mallolollo]

why you have the fan speed so low? do not see the cards burns? put at least to 50-60% to save 10 °C without too much noise...bb

[toutagamon]

@mallolollo

80C is not anywhere close to the card burning. GPUs are designed to cope with high temps.

[almighty151986]

You're CPU bottlenecked, Hence your 5850's aren't running at 99% load through out the demo.

[toutagamon]

@almighty151986

This demo is not cpu heavy at all. I am pretty sure this is a driver issue and/or an architecture bottleneck. This is a 7970 demo after all.

[almighty151986]

@toutagamon There's no such thing as drivers causing a bottleneck, Just lack of CPU power. I had 5850 Crossfire and when I moved to a 2500k my frame rates shot up in practically every game, Even that games that I thought wouldn't see an improvement,

[toutagamon]

@almighty151986

Bad drivers can easily hold gpus from reaching their max. I've seen it many times in past.

Getting much better gpu performance with a faster cpu is also something very reasonable, but this one does not show such a handicap.

One of the cpu limits scenario, shows at least two cores being at 50% load, due to windows thread switching. This is not even close here. The cpu has much more juice to give.

[almighty151986]

@toutagamon Thats exactly what I thought before I upgraded, My 5850's clocked at 850Mhz in Crysis running Very high managed minimum of 38fps and an average of 55fps and my CPU was never maxing out any of the cores. My GPU usage was averaging around the 80% mark on each GPU in MSI Afterburner.

Moved to a 2500k and average rose to 60fps ( Not a big improvement tbh ) but the minimum rose to 48fps, A good 10fps extra performance. Both GPU's were locked at 99% throughout the entire benchmark.

[madtoady]

@toutagamon You are talking out rubbish. Try researching before opening your mouth next time.

overclock(dot)net/t/1175823/

[toutagamon]

@madtoady

Try telling that to someone that has not done a gazillion benchmarks on various configurations already.

As for BF3 and cpu usage..... /watch?v=ysZs5Tb4uEo#t=816s

Do yourself a favor and see the cpu usage at the end of this video and then re-read what I wrote. Try watching more carefully before opening your mouth next time.

[foxsux6000]

2x5850!!! that's insane!

[thanoolhs]

panemorfo!!^^

[JusticeYouWant2010]

That's Great !

[hugonainsquis]

I saw the title and was like " WHAT HE GOT AN 7970???" Then I noticed "5850 Crossfire" and was like "its ok everyone false alarm" xD

[toutagamon]

@hugonainsquis

Hahah with these prices, I'd wish...!

[TombMan12]

@hugonainsquis Same here :D

[Wganon182]

Wow this looks like fucking CGI.

[toutagamon]

@Wganon182

Indeed!

[the12221]

This bench' is really freaking heavy!

Great results! :)

[evilcrow1001]

For a second there I thought you had a 7970 0-0

you getting one?

[dutchnoob21]

@evilcrow1001 lol thought the same.

I got one today and its insane power for one chip:D

[toutagamon]

@dutchnoob21

Can you share what kind of performance are you getting with this one? thanks

[toutagamon]

@evilcrow1001

Not really. I'll wait to see what Nvidia brings with their Keplers. I'd gladly get two of them if they were around 350, but AMD decided to blood suck all they could.

[tOonisurfer]

Can I ask you how you decrease the ram usage?Im always getting like 1.5gb without doing shit.

[toutagamon]

@tOonisurfer

Windows uses RAM for caching. If need be, it flushes what it does not need, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[GamesCanBeArt]

Holy system hog, Batman!

[tOonisurfer]

FUCKING FIRST!