Sapphire 7850 Performance Thread

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7850 Performance Thread

Borderlands 2

All max settings except Physx is on low since I don't have an NVidia card.

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Shogun 2

Benchmark at highest settings yielded 56.95 average FPS. My old card doing the same bench got about 33 if I remember correctly. Not OC'd.

Battlefield 3

MAX Settings. Average of 55 fps using a 3 minute benchmark. Recording obviously is lower.

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Just Cause 2


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Benchmark results with no Overclock

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Skyrim

I'm pretty sure most of the hiccups were my CPU and the recording process. Game runs at 60 fps on ULTRA. Drops to 40s and 50s in combat and long distance views. Read the description for more info. I'd upload a higher quality video but it would take several hours on my slow internet. Not OC'd.

FRAPS FPS was all over the place and not very reliable.

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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit.

Not super demanding but did drop my 5770 down into the 30's fairly frequently with shadows down the medium and everything else on highest setting. Bumped up the shadows on this and runs 60 FPS and never drops. Not OC'd.

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Guild Wars 2

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Average of 47 FPS in 3 mins. Video has 25-30 due to FRAPS. Had to change a few settings in CCC to make it run better. See description of video.


3D Mark Results at Overclock of 1000 core and 1300 memory


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Card and Installation Pictures


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Old 5770 on top. I'm surprised the newer card isn't that much longer.

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Good to see NFS HP runs really well! Hopefully going to get that game soon, should max out on my PC. :)

Does appear that, like expected, you got quite a big performance gain, yes?
 
spirit said:
Good to see NFS HP runs really well! Hopefully going to get that game soon, should max out on my PC. :)

Does appear that, like expected, you got quite a big performance gain, yes?
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Yes, most definitely. Honestly I don't have any more demanding games than Skyrim. I tried Crysis but it was only getting 30-45 fps. Game is horribly optimized... The card will also help with doing game recordings too.
 
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Yes, most definitely. Honestly I don't have any more demanding games than Skyrim. I tried Crysis but it was only getting 30-45 fps. Game is horribly optimized... The card will also help with doing game recordings too.
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Seems like you got yourself a nice card.

Was considering upgrading to a 7850 from a 5870, mainly for the extra RAM, but after seeing the numbers on Anandtech I just couldn't justify the cost to performance benefit of upgrading from a 5870, especially when the 5870 is working nicely for me it seems.

Looks like it was a big upgrade from a 5770 though. :)
 
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Seems like you got yourself a nice card.

Was considering upgrading to a 7850 from a 5870, mainly for the extra RAM, but after seeing the numbers on Anandtech I just couldn't justify the cost to performance benefit of upgrading from a 5870, especially when the 5870 is working nicely for me it seems.

Looks like it was a big upgrade from a 5770 though. :)
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Yeah. I get the feeling I'll really notice it when I play some more demanding games. I tried some more Crysis and tweaked a few settings. Still not sure why it's so low. Still, it's plenty playable and looks amazing. I also OC'd the card so may go back and try Crysis again. Not sure how I feel about overclocking. Seems like I should use it as it was designed rather than making it better. I may drop the clocks back down again. GW2 (see OP if you haven't read that part yet) is frustrating me though. Surprised my CPU isn't up to scratch for it...

Any other games or tests I should run?
 
I have a feeling your processor is holding you back. And graphics score is slightly better than a 480. : )

You could test that by overclocking a little bit. Try bumping the multi by one or 2. If the score improves then you know it is holding you back.

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I have a feeling your processor is holding you back. And graphics score is slightly better than a 480. : )

You could test that by overclocking a little bit. Try bumping the multi by one or 2. If the score improves then you know it is holding you back.

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I'm afraid of OC my CPU since I have the stock HSF. Granted I don't think I ever get above 60 degrees Celsius in gaming.

I may try tomorrow. Use BIOS or Vision Control Center?
 
My card is idling at 45 Celsius. Too high?

My CPU is at 33. Plenty of air flow and cooling going on. Knocking up the fans on the GPU brought be down to 35 but letting it go back to automatic fan speed, it climbed back up. Core clock is at 300 while idle and memory is at 1300. Guess it doesn't downclock the memory when not in use.
 
45 should be fine. you will probably have to make a call between running the fan high enough to cool it well and slow enough to be quiet. On my 480 that magic number right now is 60%, makes it idle at 48* or so. It can be cooler if I pushed it higher, but then I have a jet engine.

CPU sounds like it is cool enough.
 
Yeah just go for a small overclock on your Phenom, just a couple of hundred of megahertz or so. If the temps get too high but the FPS improves, then you know it's time to get yourself an aftermarket cooler and overclock further.
 
Well I bumped up my CPU to 3.4gHZ. About 15 mins of Guild Wars got it up to 55 degrees Celsius and never went higher than 56. About to run 3DMark and will post back.

Performance in GW seems increased but it's hard to tell since I modified a bunch of settings yesterday as well.
 
Results are a tad worse actually. I'm sure there's some deviation between each run but I guess my Proc isn't holding me back in terms of 3DMark.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4477639

On the plus side my temps only reach 57 so I'll keep the OC as is.

GPU got up to 63, I think that's safe.
 
actually, if you look at the graphics score it went up. The ever so small OC did improve the graphics power.

Physics score however, will always be in the hole for you. It is a AMD system which does not handle physics well as is.
 
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