Tessellation Hero Challenge (NV OR AMD)!! Bring it!!

ekovalsky said:
GF104 does scale great, my scores come close to doubling when comparing single GPU to SLI. But the highest score I can get with 2 x 460 overclocked 900/1800/2000 with a 980X and PCIe @ 110MHz is 24.9 without reducing the Nvidia control panel settings from default. My score did go up about 10% by running fullscreen versus windowed, those who ran the challenge windowed should re-run it fullscreen.

That said I think tessellation performance of the GF104 is a bit hobbled compared to the GF100/110 GPUs, beyond the expected difference from clock rates and number of SM cores. I still don't think that the 460 SLI can match a single 580 with these crazy high levels of tesselation, but that may not be the case with games and other benchmarks (including Unigine Heaven) with more typical levels of tesselation.
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Could you re-run with LOD bias optimized and lowest quality texture filtering? I'd like to see if that helps or if this benchmark is bound by something else.
 
ragejg said:
Could you re-run with LOD bias optimized and lowest quality texture filtering? I'd like to see if that helps or if this benchmark is bound by something else.
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I'll give this a try and report back.

I did see at a thread on another site that someone who got a 30+ score with a SLI 460 repeated the test with the proper settings and the score dropped to the 23-24 range which is consistent with what I found. I was pretty sure my scores weren't low because of my rig, as the usual standardized benchmarks I run usually come out very well and I also have good supporting parts and the system is reasonably tweaked.

With high levels of tessellation the GF104 drops away from the GF100/GF110 including the 465. Otherwise they scale really well in SLI, and at the current pricing they are a very worthy alternative to a single 480 or 580. I get a 3DMark Vantage GPU score (P) of around 33,000 with PhysX off, which is quite impressive for under $400 invested.
 
I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this challenge which has concluded.

This was just a first attempt at doing something like this; I wanted to see how much work I'd need to put into a multi-community challenge. ... quite a bit.

I'll create another challenge at a later point, with more clearly defined and simple rules and requirements. :)

Until next time... :D
 
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