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Monster Hunter Frontier: DirectX 9 Graphics Benchmark
Monster Hunter Frontier is a DirectX 9 benchmark and is derived from the full game.
You can grab it here: Monster Hunter Benchmark DOWNLOAD
With a core2duo E8400 / 2Gb DDR3 1333 / Radeon HD 3870 Catalyst 8.8 WinXP 32, I get the score of 6425 points.
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Gainward Expertool v.4.0 for ATI
Gainward Expertool ATI v4.0 enables Radeon HD 4850 / HD 4870 fan and clocks control without CCC or BIOS modification. I just tested it and it works fine also with other Radeon like the Radeon HD 3870.
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[Geeks3D-Test] ATI Catalyst 8.8 vs 8.7: OpenGL Performance Drop
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Catalyst 8.8 graphics drivers have been released few days ago, and today, or better this evening I’ve done some tests with oZone3D.Net OpenGL Benchmarks and a Radeon HD 3870 (stock clocks). I also used Lightsmark 2008 in order to have another OpenGL 2.0 application to confirm oZone3D.Net OpenGL benchmarks. |
Here are the results, rather unexpected
Catalyst 8.7 | Catalyst 8.8 | Diff | |
FurMark 1280×1024 | 3100 | 3229 | +4% |
FluidMark 1280×1024 | 954 | 937 | -1.8% |
Soft Shadows Branching OFF | 3384 | 2590 | -23% |
Soft Shadows Branching ON | 4088 | 2993 | -26% |
Surface Deformer | 13526 | 10332 | -23% |
Lightsmark 2008 | 391 | 376 | -4% |
TOTAL Sum | 25443 | 20457 | -18% |
System Configuration: Core 2 Duo E8400 default clock, motherboard EVGA 790i Ultra SLI, 2Gb DDR3 1333, HIS Radeon HD 3870 default clocks, Catalyst 8.8 XP32, Windows XP SP2 32-bit.
Global Performance Drop: 18%. OpenGL performance tumbled by around 26% in dynamic branching (soft shadows), around 23% in vertex processing (surface deformer) and around 4% in Lightsmark 2008. Only FurMark takes advantage of Catalyst 8.8 with a little 4% of performance boost. FurMark makes an intensive use of texture fetching and blending (ROPs) and maybe ATI has improved something in this part of Catalyst. But as said hereafter, Expreview has noticed a performance drop with a Radeon HD 4850 and FurMark. I don’t have such a radeon and then I can’t confirm this last result but FurMark score is somewhat weird…
Expreview on his side, has tested the Catalyst 8.8 with an ATI Radeon HD 4850 and compared to Catalyst 8.7, the new driver boosts the performance in games. If you have a Radeon HD 4850, Expreview recommends you update to Catalyst 8.8. But if you look at the results more seriously, you can notice that scores are boosted mainly for DirectX 10 titles. In other OpenGL or DirectX 9 titles, there is no or a little boost only. And with FurMark, Expreview has the same kind of performance drop I had with the HD 3870.
TweakTown in his Catalyst 8.8 review has also experienced a severe OpenGL performance drop with Radeon HD 3870 and Cinebench, the OpenGL benchmark derived from Cinema 4D. The Radeon HD 4870 has a drop too but less important.
Conclusion: for OpenGL applications that are performance focused, it’s better to not use Catalyst 8.8. In some cases, Catalyst 8.8 brings a little boost only and in other cases, a dramatic drop is noticed.
If you have some interesting results with OpenGL applications, do no hesitate to post a comment!
More OpenGL related posts: OpenGL @ Geeks3D.
More Catalyst releated posts: Catalyst @ Geeks3D
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3870 Ultimate
Graphics cards reviews round-up
The latest graphics cards reviews of the week:
GeForce 9800 GX2
– XFX GeForce 9800GX2 @ Motherboards.org
GeForce 9800 GTX
– GeForce 9800 GTX vs 9800 GX2
– Foxconn GeForce 9800 GTX OC 512MB Video Card
– ASUS EN9800GTX TOP @ elitebastards.com
– Asus EN9800GTX @ Hardwarelogic
GeForce 9600 GT
– Geforce 9600GT SLI Performance
– BFG Tech 9600GT @ Tweaktown
– XFX GeForce 9600GT at TweakTown
– PNY Verto 9600 GT @ Legitreviews
– Twintech GeForce 9600GT XXT OC Edition
– Palit GeForce 9600GT at Benchmark Reviews
GeForce 9600 GSO
– Palit Geforce 9600 GSO at TechwareLabs
– Palit 9600 GSO @ NeoSeeker
GeForce 8800 GTS
– Asus 8800GTS @ CDRInfo
GeForce 8800 GT
– BFG 8800 GT OCX @ I4U News
– ECS 8800GT 256MB @ Virtual-Hideout
– ECS GeForce 8800GT at Virtual-Hideout
Radeon HD 3870
– Sapphire HD 3870 @ Tweaktown
Radeon HD 3850 X2
– ASUS EAH3850 X2 @ ThinkComputers
Radeon HD 3650
– Diamond HD 3650 PE @ TheTechLounge
– MSI Radeon HD 3650 @ X-bit labs