theres a bug the first time you run it that drops the fps at the start it would normally be around the 20fps on start up on standard clocks. couldnt be arsed to run it twice at standard
I thought the trick for that was just to let it purr through outside of the Benchmark for a minute, then start it?
This is what I have been saying about this benchmark. As due to the power saving features on Modern GPU's, the very first second you run the benchmark, yours clock speeds take a second to get up to 3D clocks. What they need to do is, start the benching about 3 seconds into the starting process, so your clock are at 3D clock speeds, before the benching beings. Otherwise, it is pot luck trying to get it to give you higher min FPS.
Yeh but there's also the issue about two thirds of the way through the bench, where it pauses for a split second in the dark stone tunnel. That's the bit that's always hit or miss for me.
Well, when you look at my scores, at the same setting as yours and I set the GPU clocks to yours. Doesn't that show/tell you something?
I used to have a 955BE @ 4Ghz. When I switched to the 2600k, everything became much quicker. It's almost certainly your cpu.
Yes, and I have also mentioned this several times. Vram is only at 737MB max throughout the whole benchmark, so its not a vram limitation. You will notice that the GPU usage drops from 99% to about 5% on all GPU's in that area. So there is a bug in the benchmark.
Can I just say, I am in this club but the 460 club is better cos only cool people own 460s. I'm not cool anymore
AoE, your Heaven bench jpg shows you ran it in 8xAA, we all ran it at 4xAA - check that first before you go worrying about hardware or software problems. Run in in 4xAA and repost your results.
nah 550 owners are pretty cool too, hipsters... hmm I'd say 6950 owners that have the 6970 bios? ooops, mentioned ATI in the Fermi thread....
