My upgrade from 8800gt to hd 5850 results

[killem2]

Following Reports from FRAPS. E8400 @ 3.0 ghz and 8800gt 512 Stock speeds, 1920x1080.

2010-01-15 23:06:29 - BurnoutParadise (No SSAO)
Avg: 58.869 - Min: 37 - Max: 61

2010-01-15 23:10:56 - GRID (no aa)
Avg: 54.846 - Min: 44 - Max: 64

2010-01-15 23:18:17 - Dungeons and Dragons Online (Highest Details 8x AA, 16x AF) (Windowed Mode)
Avg: 19.180 - Min: 7 - Max: 51

2010-01-15 23:26:11 - Torchlight Demo (Max Settings I think the 0 min is from a loading screen or something because it was

always smooth)
Avg: 131.873 - Min: 0 - Max: 259

2010-01-15 23:30:42 - MassEffect (Max Settings)
Avg: 50.456 - Min: 34 - Max: 63

2010-01-17 22:25:42 - Operations Flashpoint Dragon Rising Demo (Max Detail)
Avg: 25.580 - Min: 20 - Max: 35

2010-01-17 22:29:24 - Batman AA Demo (Could not change options so what ever it is by default)
Avg: 37.559 - Min: 27 - Max: 56

2010-01-17 22:36:24 - Need for Speed: Shift (Max Detail)
Avg: 3.2 - Min: 2 - Max: 4

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Following Reports from FRAPS. E8400 @ 4.0 ghz and 8800gt 512 Stock speeds, 1920x1080.

2010-01-17 23:04:13 - BurnoutParadise (No SSAO)
Avg: 59.194 - Min: 53 - Max: 61

2010-01-17 23:08:04 - GRID
Avg: 54.614 - Min: 47 - Max: 65 (no aa)

2010-01-17 23:11:45 - Dungeons and Dragons Online (Highest Details 8x AA, 16x AF) Not sure why its lower, maybe it was more

crowded when I did this test. /shrug (Windowed)
Avg: 16.326 - Min: 6 - Max: 24

2010-01-17 23:14:16 - Torchlight Demo (Max Settings)
Avg: 149.454 - Min: 120 - Max: 198

2010-01-17 23:17:16 - MassEffect (Max Settings) Another one that is lower with higher cpu. I did both test as similar as

possible.
Avg: 42.698 - Min: 31 - Max: 48

2010-01-17 23:37:44 - Operations Flashpoint Dragon Rising Demo (Max Detail)
Avg: 26.887 - Min: 20 - Max: 34

2010-01-17 23:34:34 - GTAIV (Details TQ: Medium Reflections: Very High Water: Very High Shadow Quality: High Texture Filter

Quality: Highest View Distance: 28 Detail Distance: 36 Vehicle Density: 100 Shadow Density: 16)
Avg: 22.939 - Min: 18 - Max: 30

2010-01-17 23:41:09 - Batman AA Demo (Could not change options so what ever it is by default) Yet another one that was

lower with higher cpu speeds. /shrug
Avg: 35.676 - Min: 25 - Max: 50

2010-01-17 23:45:34 - Need for Speed: Shift (Max Detail)
Avg: 3.7 - Min: 3 - Max: 5

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Following Reports from FRAPS. E8400 @ 3.0 ghz and HD 5850 Stock speeds, 1920x1080.

2010-01-20 19:54:07 - BurnoutParadise
Avg: 59.828 - Min: 56 - Max: 61

2010-01-20 19:55:10 - BurnoutParadise (with SSAO)
Avg: 54.916 - Min: 40 - Max: 61

2010-01-20 19:58:31 - GRID (8x AA)
Avg: 86.263 - Min: 69 - Max: 114

2010-01-20 20:03:38 - Dungeons and Dragons Online (Windowed however when not windowed its INSANE 4-5 times as much frames.)
Avg: 25.197 - Min: 13 - Max: 38

2010-01-20 20:08:06 - Torchlight (8800gt beat this, /shrug)
Avg: 122.526 - Min: 92 - Max: 145

2010-01-20 20:12:38 - MassEffect
Avg: 58.458 - Min: 39 - Max: 63

2010-01-20 20:17:27 - Operations Flashpoint Dragon Rising Demo
Avg: 60.854 - Min: 48 - Max: 84

GTA 4 Benchmark This time.
Average FPS: 35.69
Duration: 37.40 sec

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 26
Detail Distance: 100


2010-01-20 20:52:26 - Batman AA Demo (sad face dunno what happened here)
Avg: 15.535 - Min: 13 - Max: 20

2010-01-20 20:56:52 - shift
Avg: 36.981 - Min: 15 - Max: 63
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Following Reports from FRAPS. E8400 @ 4.0 ghz and HD 5850 Stock speeds, 1920x1080.

2010-01-20 21:05:06 - BurnoutParadise
Avg: 58.407 - Min: 45 - Max: 61

2010-01-20 21:06:14 - BurnoutParadise (With ssao)
Avg: 59.548 - Min: 45 - Max: 61

2010-01-20 21:09:30 - GRID
Avg: 103.844 - Min: 92 - Max: 132

2010-01-20 21:12:57 - Dungeons and Dragons Online (as above non windowed is crazy fps)
Avg: 25.859 - Min: 18 - Max: 34

2010-01-20 21:15:18 - MassEffect
Avg: 60.709 - Min: 54 - Max: 63

2010-01-20 21:17:39 - Operations Flashpoint Dragon Rising Demo
Avg: 71.724 - Min: 60 - Max: 85

GTA 4
Statistics
Average FPS: 42.43
Duration: 37.38 sec

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 41
Detail Distance: 100

2010-01-20 21:25:21 - Batman AA Demo (still no clue on this one)
Avg: 19.904 - Min: 13 - Max: 26

2010-01-20 21:27:45 - Need for Speed Shift (cpu limited?)
Avg: 69.367 - Min: 48 - Max: 83

[don'tknow]

What drivers are you using? The 9.12 hotfix or 10.1 beta?

Burnout Paradise is locked at 60 fps btw, very annoying (forcing vsync off in any form does not help). Searched online some months ago about how to remove that stupid limit but couldn't find a solution (maybe by now someone has found something, not sure).

About low fps in Batman AA - sometimes I get this issue if I have multiple UE3 games installed. Some conflict with the configurations. It should be fixed by uninstalling all UE3 games then reinstalling Batman AA, but I'm sure there's other ways; haven't bothered with this yet since I recently formatted my games drive so I don't have any UE3 games installed on it currently to test.

NFS Shift - yes, it's CPU limited. I get about the same fps as you, and even when I OC my 5850 to max stable speeds it still dips in the 40's when there's lots of cars on screen (all max settings 8x AA).

Good choice on the card, huge upgrade excluding a few of the problems in some games (which are the games themselves, not the card).

[Neuromancer]

Looks like you left vSync on for a few of those tests.

Congrats on the massive upgrade though. I cant wait to go 5800 series. Should only be another year or so :)

[killem2]

Yeah I think it did have vsync on I have nto used catalyst stuff in ages so I forgot all about some of the things you should tweak and stuff.

The batman thing I'm not so concerned its only a demo. But I am getting tired of games being more and more cpu limited.

[EarthDog]

Nice upgrade but these tests.............are you using built in benchmarks or running through the same scene by hand???

Rerun without vsync and proper repeatable methods... ;)

[killem2]

I will try some stuff this weekend when I have the case open (building my wood case :))

other than gta the test were the FRAPS frame monitor capture tool

I will also fine tune them.