Source Engine benchmarks (56k beware!!)

jesus_thats_gre

Benchmarks for CS:Source are starting to appear all over the net.. Makes for some interesting reading and gives us all an idea of what HL2 will run like on our machines..

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?p=423812#post423812













Out of intrest we also ran the game at the maximum AA/AF settings available to us, this means 6xAA-16xAF on the Radeon and 8xSAA-16xAF on the Geforce.






Well I know what I am thinking at the moment..

Töpher

Hmmmm............

Be interesting to see the 6800 U score compared to a X800Pro. But fuck! I was all lined up to get a GT and oc to U speeds (saving about 100/150 in the process).

Matt Simis

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

Well I know what I am thinking at the moment..

That all the cry babies with ATI cards can cheer up now?

Im glad we are back to the days when there is no card thats a "one size fits all", now we can customise PCs to excel at certain tasks (while being pretty good at others). I like variety.



Matt

RuggieBear

Just swop the names over and it could be the benchies for Doom 3....:D

RuggieBear

There is some serious dissing of those benchmarks over on the overclockers forum....the performance gap seems a little to large

jesus_thats_gre

There are quite alot of the benchmarks appearing.. Will have to gather them all up to see if they are consistent.

CivilServant

Matt Simis wrote:

That all the cry babies with ATI cards can cheer up now?

Yup, a big f u to nvidia and doom3 fanboys! :cool:

BloodBath

I ran the same benchmark on max detail and trilinear filtering at 1600x1200 and got an average fps of 59.6.

At 1280x960 I got an average of 90.2 which is pretty near the 6800ultra in those benchmarks.

God knows why they used 1280x960 instead of 1280x1024. Who uses 1280x960? It doesn't fit the screen properly.


BloodBath

RuggieBear

BloodBath wrote:

I ran the same benchmark on max detail and trilinear filtering at 1600x1200 and got an average fps of 59.6.

At 1280x960 I got an average of 90.2.

God knows why they used 1280x960 instead of 1280x1024. Who uses 1280x960? It doesn't fit the screen properly.


BloodBath

Where does one get their hands on it?

BloodBath

You need to download counterstrike source through steam.

You need either a condition zero cd key or an ati Half Life 2 voucher to be able to download it.


BloodBath

RuggieBear

BloodBath wrote:

You need to download counterstrike source through steam.

You need either a condition zero cd key or an ati Half Life 2 voucher to be able to download it.


BloodBath

That sucks....

BloodBath

Condition zero is only 25 euro and you can pay for it through steam with a credit card. You will be able to download both condition zero and cs-source straight away then.


BloodBath

RuggieBear

BloodBath wrote:

Condition zero is only 25 euro and you can pay for it through steam with a credit card. You will be able to download both condition zero and cs-source straight away then.


BloodBath

To tell you the truth i'm not much of a online gamer type.....so it be a bit wasted on me!

jesus_thats_gre

BloodBath wrote:

Condition zero is only 25 euro and you can pay for it through steam with a credit card. You will be able to download both condition zero and cs-source straight away then.


BloodBath

hmmmm 30 dollar from steampowered.com or 12.99 sterling from play.com

actually no, I dont think I will buy it to play a beta.. joke!

Zakalwe

BloodBath wrote:

I ran the same benchmark on max detail and trilinear filtering at 1600x1200 and got an average fps of 59.6.

At 1280x960 I got an average of 90.2 which is pretty near the 6800ultra in those benchmarks.

God knows why they used 1280x960 instead of 1280x1024. Who uses 1280x960? It doesn't fit the screen properly.


BloodBath

1280x1024 is a non standard resolution in that it's not in a an aspect ratio of 4:3 like 640x480 800x600 1024x768. 1280x960 is at the normal aspect 4:3 ratio.

Unless you have a monitor specifically geared towards 1280x1024 ( some tft screens ) then you should stick with 1280x960 or circles can look oval and objects squashed in some games.

BloodBath

Hmmm my monitor is weird then. It doesn't display 1280x960 correctly but it does display 1600x1200, 1280x1024 and 800x600 correctly.


BloodBath

OfflerCrocGod

BloodBath wrote:

Hmmm my monitor is weird then. It doesn't display 1280x960 correctly but it does display 1600x1200, 1280x1024 and 800x600 correctly.

I afto agree with BloodBath I've tried this on 2 monitors and 1280*1024 is better - weird indeed

Nietzschean

BloodBath wrote:

Condition zero is only 25 euro and you can pay for it through steam with a credit card. You will be able to download both condition zero and cs-source straight away then.


BloodBath

damn ye i wuz perfectly happy waiting for hl2 to get it...but ooo no ye hadda point this out now i'm downloading CS:S...heh

I'll be able to do some bechines with me 6800GT by the morning so...

And Also Any Irish Servers Up?

Nietzschean

my gt @ stock ~61fps @ 1600x1200 4aa 8af
now 68fps @ 1280x960 0aa 0af

so thats well sus imo...

Matt Simis

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

I afto agree with BloodBath I've tried this on 2 monitors and 1280*1024 is better - weird indeed

Prolly looks better as its a slightly higher res...
It always was a mystery to me why TFTs used a 5:4 Resolution. Its not just some, I dont think I have ever seen a 1280x960res TFT?



Matt

Matt Simis

pekelly wrote:

There is some serious dissing of those benchmarks over on the overclockers forum....the performance gap seems a little to large

Gamers Depot:

http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/video_cards/source/002.htm

Much closer scores and the 6800GT consistantly beats the X800 Pro. The X800XT is still of course the fastest, with the 6800 Ultra around 12% behind it.



Matt

RuggieBear

Matt Simis wrote:

Gamers Depot:

http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/video_cards/source/002.htm

Much closer scores and the 6800GT consistantly beats the X800 Pro. The X800XT is still of course the fastest, with the 6800 Ultra around 12% behind it.



Matt

They look a little fairer. Seen any benchmarks involving the 9800pros and source? Want to see how my little machine will hack it....

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CombatCow

Those benchies look a bit off to me considering i get 125fps average with css at 1600x1200 with everthing thats allowed at the highest detail.Didnt try with aa or af yet,will do later.Specs are in my sig.

CC

BloodBath

Prolly looks better as its a slightly higher res...
It always was a mystery to me why TFTs used a 5:4 Resolution. Its not just some, I dont think I have ever seen a 1280x960res TFT?

It's not that it looks better. 1280x960 doesn't fit the screen properly. It's off centre where as all the other 5:4 resolutions fit it perfectly and 1280x1024 fits it perfectly.


Also that benchmark isn't exactly fair as the gt they tested came pre-overclocked. They compared it to the x800pro which would have beaten it f it had been overclocked.

Combatcow i'm sure the fact that you have a 3800+ has something to do with you scoring higher.


BloodBath

RuggieBear

CombatCow wrote:

Those benchies look a bit off to me considering i get 125fps average with css at 1600x1200 with everthing thats allowed at the highest detail.Didnt try with aa or af yet,will do later.Specs are in my sig.

CC

That's roughly 35fps more than the games depot benchmark, right!? Could that be the A64....

jesus_thats_gre

I was running it last night on my machine.. Was getting average frame rates of 70 odd with 2X aa and 8X af at 1280x1024. Just alowed a fair bit when I entered the temple.

KdjaCL

Thats odd such a large gap but i remember ATI being well pissed about the whole voucher thing , is this their reward?

But 120+ on highest settings , i think we all sleep safe knowing most pcs will run the game.

kdjac