Favor from GTX 580 and Sandy Bridge Owners

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AuxNuke

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I'm making some comparisons in an attempt to quell my inert need to upgrade. Can someone with a single GTX 580 and a sandy bridge CPU run a few benches for me?

- Please list your system specs, current OC's, etc.
- Preferable res of 1920x1200 or 1080p

Canned Benchmark: Unigine Heaven 2.5

"Real World" Bench: Please list your game,"map", in-game settings, and FPS. I have most recent games and would like to attempt to duplicate your settings to compare my current setup.

Thanks!
 
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I'm sorta in the same boat as you with a i7 860 and 6970. I'm interested to see the gains from Nehalem/Lynnfield to SB from some users on here.
 
Now will somebody please post a 6 core AMD 1090T/1100T @ stock with a 580 GTX to qualm my innate desires lmao! I need to know what I'm missing :D

It would be nice to have a comparison though...
 
^^^^ Had both setups....difference is huge

I will post benches for you.

Any specific games you want to see?

GTX580 at 850/1025 my bad



Pretty sure Unigine is GPU limited, unless you have a 2/3 card SLI setup
 
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QuiteSufficient said:
^^^^ Had both setups....difference is huge

I will post benches for you.

Any specific games you want to see?

GTX580 at 850/1025 my bad

Pretty sure Unigine is GPU limited, unless you have a 2/3 card SLI setup
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Thanks all :)

I'm right in line with Unigine:
unigine_920_GTX580.jpg


- Regarding which game I'd like to compare.. how about BF:BC2?
- When you say the difference is huge, do you mean in games? It seems as though a single GTX 580 is not enough to saturate a 920 in most games, hence the huge gains seen when adding a second card in SLI: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4254/triplegpu-performance-multigpu-scaling-part1/5
 
I meant compared to the guy above me. I had a Phenom X6 before.

I wouldn't waste your money if you have a gen 1 iCore. I dont have BF:BC2
 
With two GTX 570 in SLI oc'd (830core/4350mem) I saw a nice difference going from an i7 920 @ 3.72ghz to my 2600K (sandy bridge) @ 4.8ghz in games, especially BFBC2 but most others saw good boosts in overall framerate (especially Rift), the primary gains being in minimum FPS and elimination of hitches (I do have a 256gb SSD). Obviously in productivity/etc. the gains were enormous as well. I run at 2560x1600. Games will only become more demanding during this next year with titles demanding more CPU horsepower.
 
i7 2600k @ stock - reason is my H67 mITX mobo
GTX580 at... stock

2560x1440, Dell U2711


Starcraft 2.... :D

uhhh... whaddya wanna see out of starcraft2? Will post heaven 2.5 later.
 
jeremyshaw said:


here it is. Thumbnail for size :p
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Kind of OT, but would you mind linking me to that picture of MC? And just so my post is semi-relevant... my 2500K @ 4.5 & 570GTX (stock)

FPS: 48.1
Scores: 1232
Min FPS: 19.0
Max FPS: 117.3

Hardware

Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 1 2011
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU flags: 3300MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 8.17.12.7527 1280Mb
 
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I can offer some 1080p Crysis Warhead numbers, this is with a 2600k running at 4.5GHz

All settings enthusiast, 4xFSAA, Frost bench
Minimum 34, Maximum 54, Average 46

I don't appear to have a 64-bit executable despite running Win7 x64, so those numbers are for the 32-bit binary.

I think something is off though, because I get basically the same framerate in all the other map benchmarks and overclocking the 580 makes zero difference. Disabling AA does not improve minimum framerate at all, only the average and maximum.
 
rincewind said:
I can offer some 1080p Crysis Warhead numbers, this is with a 2600k running at 4.5GHz

All settings enthusiast, 4xFSAA, Frost bench
Minimum 34, Maximum 54, Average 46

I don't appear to have a 64-bit executable despite running Win7 x64, so those numbers are for the 32-bit binary.

I think something is off though, because I get basically the same framerate in all the other map benchmarks and overclocking the 580 makes zero difference. Disabling AA does not improve minimum framerate at all, only the average and maximum.
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Thanks for this.

Here's my results with the same settings: Enthusiast, DX10, 64bit, 4xAA, 1080p, Frost bench
Min: 30.61
Avg: 45.90
Max: 54.78

Looks this old i7 is right in line with this bench as well.

Anyone else able to run a benchmark or 2? Maybe some BF:BC2, Civ 5 or anything else? Thanks!
 
You'll get a pretty decent bump in CPU performance going from a 920 setup to an overclocked Sandy Bridge, but you probably aren't all that bottlenecked unless you throw in a second 580GTX into the mix. What you have will easily feed your single 580GTX, so unless you have a CPU intensive game, you won't notice that much difference.

My results @ 1920x1200. I don't have a 580GTX but a pair of 480GTX in SLI with an overclocked (4.6Ghz) 2600K.
Heaven_bench.jpg
 
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