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Conflicting Benchmark Results for BF3

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HardOCP recently reviewed how a few setups performed in BF3. You can find the link as a sticky/announcement on the front page, or at the bottom of this post.

They compared the 580 to the 6970, both in single and dual GPU modes, and found the following in 1920x1200 resolution with ultra settings (given as average frames per second):

Single GPU
580: 50 FPS
6970: 41 FPS

SLI/CFx
580 SLI: 90 FPS
6970 CFx: 79 FPS

Notice the clear advantage going to nvidia here.

Now, toms hardware put out a similar review, and here are their findings for the same cards at the same resolutions (probably with different settings):

Single GPU
580: 69 FPS
6970: 70 FPS

SLI/CFx
580 SLI: 117 FPS
6970 CFx: 128 FPS


Now, I realize that with different game settings you'll get different results, but I don't see how the 580 would go from such a clear lead to a deficit (especially in the multiGPU catagory).

If their (toms) review of the 580/6970 is wrong, I'm guessing their other results (Which show an across-the-board victory for ATI cards) should also be questioned.

Citations:

HardOCP Comparison
Toms SLI
Toms CFx
 
AMD has known problems with MSAA with this game, so that setting alone would be enough to change the results (if [H] had it on, and Tom's had it off, for instance).
 
Forceman said:
AMD has known problems with MSAA with this game, so that setting alone would be enough to change the results (if [H] had it on, and Tom's had it off, for instance).
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This. In the apples to apples comparison you're lookign at, MSAA is turned on in the [H] review, which seems to be affecting AMD cards much more heavily in BF3.
 
xebo said:
HardOCP recently reviewed how a few setups performed in BF3. You can find the link as a sticky/announcement on the front page, or at the bottom of this post.

They compared the 580 to the 6970, both in single and dual GPU modes, and found the following in 1920x1200 resolution with ultra settings (given as average frames per second):

Single GPU
580: 50 FPS
6970: 41 FPS

SLI/CFx
580 SLI: 90 FPS
6970 CFx: 79 FPS

Notice the clear advantage going to nvidia here.

Now, toms hardware put out a similar review, and here are their findings for the same cards at the same resolutions (probably with different settings):

Single GPU
580: 69 FPS
6970: 70 FPS

SLI/CFx
580 SLI: 117 FPS
6970 CFx: 128 FPS


Now, I realize that with different game settings you'll get different results, but I don't see how the 580 would go from such a clear lead to a deficit (especially in the multiGPU catagory).

If their (toms) review of the 580/6970 is wrong, I'm guessing their other results (Which show an across-the-board victory for ATI cards) should also be questioned.

Citations:

HardOCP Comparison
Toms SLI
Toms CFx
Click to expand...


you need to look at the settings when comparing things.

toms
580 ultra 19x10
55
hardocp
580 ultra 19x12
50

notice the higher rez hardocp uses
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-12.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-7.html
toms
6970 ultra 19x10
44
hardocp
6970 ultra 19x12
40

toms crossfire and sli testing was done on high settings
 
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