Graphics Performance List

Used vantage.

Previous GPU score was: 13223
New GPU Score was: 15039

Thats roughly a 15percent increase, not bad. Although do note the fan has to be held at 60percent for ingame temps to remain at < 91celcius which is considered acceptable for this card. The games i've tried were BFBC2 and GTA4 which both have between 40 and 60 percent GPU usage. Running 3DMark or a GPU stress test which puts the GPU at 99percent usage means you have to put the fan up to around 85percent, which is loud for my liking. 60percent fan is fine during gaming though, as you can't really hear it.
 
Well thats a good thing.

Whats concidered a good GPU overclock ? should i be aiming for much more than 15percent ?
 
15% sounds pretty good. I would watch those temps though. People yield nice results from OC'ing the 470...do it up!
 
nooooooo, not a good thing
my wallet will cry, and bleed

I don't know 'bout overclocking for the fermi, or gpu's for that matter
 
Thanks, this made me even happier about my decision to buy the 5870 for my pc build ^^
 
BOOM !!!!!!!!!

Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured with GeForce GTX 480. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 14% in Aliens vs. Predator (1920x1200 noAA/AF – Tessellation on)
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham Asylum (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF PhysX=High)
Up to 5% in BattleForge (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High settings)
Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 4% in Crysis: Warhead (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Enthusiast setting)
Up to 24% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (1920x1200 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Far Cry 2 (2560x1600 8xAA/16xAF)
Up to 25% in Just Cause 2 (2560x1600 no AA/AF - Concrete Jungle)
Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 no AA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 40% in Metro 2033 with SLI ((1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 8% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 no AA/AF – Day)
Up to 110% in Stone Giant with SLI (2650x1600 – Tessellation on, DoF on)
Up to 6% in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena (2560x1600 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Unigine: Tropics (2560x1600 no AA/AF – OpenGL)
Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Performance and Extreme Presets)
Up to 19% with Transparency AA (1920x1200 4xTrSS – measured in Crysis)


And this is why clever people got Fermi :big_grin: And this is just the first proper driver release :) (257.15)
 
Basically:
* biggest performance increase is with a couple of games in SLI
* a couple of games have a good increase for single GPU's
* most other games around 4-5% better

Wouldn't exactly make me hesitate to buy a 5870 if I had to make the choice again.
 
Maybe i was being slightly dramatic.

But.. This is only the first driver to be released, That 5 percent increase means the 5870 is now only 5percent faster on most games, however:

Decent brand GTX470 = £280
Decent brand 5870 = £320

The 5870 used to be 10 percent better. Now it is 5 percent better due to nVidias ~5percent performance increase.
£320 - %5 = £304

The GTX470 is 12.5percent cheaper for only 5 percent less performance.

If that makes any sense, the 470 is a better deal performance wise. Let me figure a better way of showing it than that pile of mess.
 
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