Crysis 3 GPU performance test!

[Atomic Playboy]

The fact that there's at least two threads on Crysis 3 in the Graphics forum and only one (on the beta no less) in the PC Gaming forum amuses me. We don't really care if the game is any good as a game, how does it work as a benchmark?

And yes, I totally bought Crysis 3 and will test it out later tonight/this week. I'm thinking I'll go all out with downsampling, max AA, ultra settings and the like and see if I can't get my GTX680 to literally catch fire. No point in having awesome hardware if you can't utterly embarrass it with every new Crysis release.

 

[sontin]

After the second and the reviews of this i think it's more a graphics tech demo than an interesting game.

 

[Baasha]

4 way SLI HAHA

Seriously what kind of scaling do you get with the 3rd and 4th card?

You got 4 GPU's and only 2GB of VRAM LOL

I have 2GB of VRAM? Are you blind?

The GTX-680 Classified has 4GB of VRAM. That's why it's using 3800MB of VRAM. If I had 2GB of VRAM, the game won't even run, let alone at the weak ~22 FPS I'm getting with everything maxed out.

 

[Baasha]

Yep. 2 Titans would probably serve him better.

2 Titans would be weak compared to my 4 GTX-680 Classified in 4-Way SLI. Each GPU has 4GB of VRAM now and the 6GB on the Titans would definitely help but VRAM is not my main concern; it's GPU power.

To run a game like Crysis 3 maxed out across 3 30" monitors requires as much GPU power as possible. As of today, the fastest GPU set up are the OC'd GTX-680 Classified w/ 4GB of VRAM.

I'll be doing some benchies with 4-Way SLI of the GTX-Titans so wait and see!

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I have 2GB of VRAM? Are you blind?

The GTX-680 Classified has 4GB of VRAM. That's why it's using 3800MB of VRAM. If I had 2GB of VRAM, the game won't even run, let alone at the weak ~22 FPS I'm getting with everything maxed out.

Just ignore him, he bashes anyone with Nvidia hardware, no matter if he knows what he's talking about or not. A couple days ago he would have thought you had 8GB of usable ram, today he's mocking because you only have 2 - and yet is still wrong...

 

[Baasha]

3800 vram used on 2gb cards....


Lulz

The GTX-680 Classified has 4GB of VRAM. I've OC'd them; all four of them to 1372Mhz and they're completely stable. This is a "software" OC w/ 1.212V and running at 1280Mhz across all 4 GPUs.

I can't believe so many of you don't know that the GTX-680 Classified has 4GB VRAM.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Yeah I was pointing out how you actually had 4GB, you're getting there, but a few posts down I say the Classified only comes in a 4GB model.

 

[DiogoDX]

Well ok. But no one ever complained about 7970 GHz being slow, being fastest single GPU card and all.


7970 and 36% over 580 is nothing to write home about.
We'll have that much in same generation with Titan. Alas, with a hefty price.

Nice math.

1080P 4xMSAA

7970 = 32
GTX580 = 22

32/22 = 1.45 or 45% better

7970ghz = 37
GTX580 = 22

37/22 = 1.68 or 68% better

 

[Rvenger]

That is actually pretty good on the surface, although a tiny bit misleading considering very few (I would guess?) run 2600K @ 3.4Ghz. I run my 2700K @ 5Ghz (4.8 if my room is particularly warm). I'd bet most people run 8350s around 4.5Ghz? If scaling is as expected, then they should be basically the same performance, perhaps a tiny bit faster on 2600K/2700K, but not enough to really be anything to worry about.

$ for $ though, Crysis3 is another title that the FX chips runs just fine. It's a Far Cry (heh) from the Skyrim/SC2 performance woes (which are mainly due to poor/archaic programming).

Intels threads are not even being properly utilized. Thats the difference between cores and ht. I think the most impressive is the FX6300. The minimums are excellent. Great for AMD to catch a break.

 

[RussianSensation]

It should have audio, maybe they just didn't have time to put it in yet?

Cost cutting. Just the logo.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

My GTX 680 is having some issues with this game at 1440P. The intro level ran about maybe 25fps on average. The NYC intro a bit better, running 30-35fps. This is using only FXAA as well. Forget any MSAA at this resolution with a single card unless you've got Titan.

 

[spaceman]

<3 my 6300

 

[Lonbjerg]

2 Titans would be weak compared to my 4 GTX-680 Classified in 4-Way SLI. Each GPU has 4GB of VRAM now and the 6GB on the Titans would definitely help but VRAM is not my main concern; it's GPU power.

To run a game like Crysis 3 maxed out across 3 30" monitors requires as much GPU power as possible. As of today, the fastest GPU set up are the OC'd GTX-680 Classified w/ 4GB of VRAM.

I'll be doing some benchies with 4-Way SLI of the GTX-Titans so wait and see!

4 x GPU scales horribad FYI.

 

[AdamK47]

2 Titans would be weak compared to my 4 GTX-680 Classified in 4-Way SLI. Each GPU has 4GB of VRAM now and the 6GB on the Titans would definitely help but VRAM is not my main concern; it's GPU power.

To run a game like Crysis 3 maxed out across 3 30" monitors requires as much GPU power as possible. As of today, the fastest GPU set up are the OC'd GTX-680 Classified w/ 4GB of VRAM.

I'll be doing some benchies with 4-Way SLI of the GTX-Titans so wait and see!

Reason #834 why I run a single monitor.

 

[Pandora's Box]

Yah to each his own but trying to play the latest games on 3 30" monitors is asking for trouble imo. Thats a 7680x1600 resolution! I wouldn't go beyond 3 24" monitors myself.

 

[Souv]

don't see a **** review of g3d.....they are nvidia biased as many other shill paid sites and this how i got banned of that shill site.....(even an old member of anand told me not to take heed on g3d and then some words exchanged whatever)
.........amd cards and cpus are clearly ahead in crysis 3 game

pcgameshardware.de reviewed crysis 3 with latest&#65279; drivers....
1080p,4xaa,VHQ maxed out-
7970ghz-43 fps
7970=39 fps
680=38 fps
7950=35 fps
670=34 fps


........http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Crysi...e/2046899/#?a_id=1056491&g_id=-1&i_id=2046902


........http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Crysis-3-PC-235317/Tests/Crysis-3-Test-CPU-Benchmark-1056578/


i told them these reviews are fake and biased just to make nvi cards look great as they done with 7950ghz edition,similar to what they done fc3 bench calling 7970 boost

there is no 7950ghz edition card unless you manually oc it or bios flash....only recent released aftermarket design msi card gives 7950 a highest boost clock of 960 mhz but forum member told me they have done bench with official sku design...what utter bull****

and hour after this msg pops up-

"You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never"




mark the words "No reason was specified"....haha coz you are a shill nvi site as many other...nvidia butt kising reviews for almighty dollars:ninja:

 

[f1sherman]

don't see a **** review of g3d.....they are nvidia biased as many other shill paid sites and this how i got banned of that shill site.....(even an old member of anand told me not to take heed on g3d and then some words exchanged whatever)
.........amd cards and cpus are clearly ahead in crysis 3 game

pcgameshardware.de reviewed crysis 3 with latest&#65279; drivers....
1080p,4xaa,VHQ maxed out-
7970ghz-43 fps
7970=39 fps
680=38 fps
7950=35 fps
670=34 fps

Biased, because unlike your PCGH, g3d used latest drivers?
:hmm:

 

[Unoid]

My GTX 680 is having some issues with this game at 1440P. The intro level ran about maybe 25fps on average. The NYC intro a bit better, running 30-35fps. This is using only FXAA as well. Forget any MSAA at this resolution with a single card unless you've got Titan.

Good to know, We got identical hardware stats for gaming.

Gotta turn down details to get 60fps?

 

[DiogoDX]

The complaint is that the Guru3D lately is doing everything to make your tests shows Nvidia GPUs with better performance. Just look at the old tests and you will see that all games were tested for maximum quality and filters (4xmsaa and even 8xmsaa in Farcry 2 and Dirt 2).

Games like Farcry 2, Hard Reset, Dirt 2, Lost Planet 2, Crysis 2 that ran better on Nvidia boards of the time were all tested at the highest quality. Batllefield 3 also has a very heavy MSAA but was not take off the teste since Nvidia always showed more strength in this particular cenario.

But for some time now with AMDGE games in the tests they began testing in a way that clearly benefits from Nvidia.

Crysis 3 tested without MSAA, FACR Cry 3 with only 2xMSAA and without HDAO and Hitman Absolution only in High Quality and 2xMSAA.

 

[Souv]

The complaint is that the Guru3D lately is doing everything to make your tests shows Nvidia GPUs with better performance. Just look at the old tests and you will see that all games were tested for maximum quality and filters (4xmsaa and even 8xmsaa in Farcry 2 and Dirt 2).

Games like Farcry 2, Hard Reset, Dirt 2, Lost Planet 2, Crysis 2 that ran better on Nvidia boards of the time were all tested at the highest quality. Batllefield 3 also has a very heavy MSAA but was not take off the teste since Nvidia always showed more strength in this particular cenario.

But for some time now with AMDGE games in the tests they began testing in a way that clearly benefits from Nvidia.

Crysis 3 tested without MSAA, FACR Cry 3 with only 2xMSAA and without HDAO and Hitman Absolution only in High Quality and 2xMSAA.

absolutely man....right on the money
even on overclockers-net 1 or 2 mem are saying g3d bench looks very fischy

they are showing way less nos. for amd cards(as hitman,fc3,etc) and now they gone too far by stating a non-existent model 7950 ghz as ref sku just to look a ref 660 ti greater by showing 1 ghz 7950(non-existent sku or aftermarket card) can't beat a ref 660ti....similar to when they stated 7970 boost in fc3 bench as ref sku and 7970 boost(if anything exists like that haha)grinding dust to competing ref models...i can't believe nobody raising this much often but 1 or 2 mem on oc-net are saying the same thing....they are underpining amd bench nos. and now even bringing models which doesnot even exist as 7950ghz edition...

just a similar example why games like cod always gets 9+ from ign(hey is't activision has most money in their pocket???:whiste:

http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/f...iew-scores-are-skewed-due-to-public-relations

 

[cmdrdredd]

So what is the best overall AA method to use in terms of IQ vs performance for Crysis 3?

My GTX 680 is having some issues with this game at 1440P. The intro level ran about maybe 25fps on average. The NYC intro a bit better, running 30-35fps. This is using only FXAA as well. Forget any MSAA at this resolution with a single card unless you've got Titan.

Isn't FXAA giving worse performance than MSAA anyway? I remember someone mentioning that in the beta. I dunno since I haven't been able to play the game yet

 

[aaksheytalwar]

To max out crisis 3 at 1080p with no AA need a titan. A highly oced 1200 1600mhz 7970 can do it at 1680x1050. So to play with 2x msaa you would need to play at 1440x900.

 

[cmdrdredd]

To max out crisis 3 at 1080p with no AA need a titan. A highly oced 1200 1600mhz 7970 can do it at 1680x1050. So to play with 2x msaa you would need to play at 1440x900.

I see people playing maxed out with SLI/x-fire setups no problem and they use AA.

 

[Grooveriding]

I see people playing maxed out with SLI/x-fire setups no problem and they use AA.

This is correct. If I run 1080p I can turn on 4xMSAA and it plays even better than 2560x1600 does without MSAA Game is beast.

On the benchmark front, when I was pondering blowing some property tax returns on a pair of Titans, this helped to cement my resolve to wait for the price drops on the card.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/grafikkarten/2013/test-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan/17/

Crysis 3 Benchmarks:

Woof. Look at the minimal difference between Titan SLI and a 690 for twice the price. I'm also running two 680s, so my setup is about 10% faster than a 690 with both at stock. Plus my setup is overclocked. I considered that you can overclock Titans, then I read Anandtech's review of Titan and how the overclocking ability of GK110/Titan is still piss poor like the GTX 680, with you not able to consume more than 265W.

No way I am paying $2000 to see 20% more performance in the AAA title of the year. Ridiculous. This bench really helped to make up my mind to steer clear of those cards till the price drops.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

To max out crisis 3 at 1080p with no AA need a titan. A highly oced 1200 1600mhz 7970 can do it at 1680x1050. So to play with 2x msaa you would need to play at 1440x900.

This is patently false. I'm running at 1920x1200 with all ingame options set to Very High and 4x SMAA and I get around 30 FPS on a single GTX 680. It may not be ideal for multiplayer, but it's fine for singleplayer. If you're talking about maxing it out with 50+ FPS, then yeah, you need a beastly card or SLI/CF setup. But to say that you can't max it at 1080P and no AA with less than a Titan? Ridiculous and wrong.