Share your 4850/4870 Benchmarks w/ 8.7 drivers

For anyone posting benchmarks, if you'd be so kind as to state which driver you were using previously and what benchmarks you got with that (assuming you know that info), in addition to the benchmark with the new official 8.7 drivers.

I'd like to see these to anyone have?

Oh yeah, forgot about them coming out. Probably just 3DMark score increases and xfire fixes...I don't have any expectations for the singe GPU. This will give me something to do with my insomnia tonight

P.S. Guru3D used RivaTuner 2.09 in their 4870x2 review....does it support the R700 family now? I missed that announcement if it does...the last I heard it wasn't supporting them. Plus it doesn't say that it supports them...huh?



Performance Improvements

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™.

* 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% is noticed in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx or ATI Radeon™ HD 34xx products
* Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases of 3% to 12% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon ™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
* Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases of 4% to 15% is noticed in specific maps on single card configured systems when using either an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx, ATI Radeon™ HD 38xx, or an ATI Radeon™ HD 36xx product
* Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps is noticed on single card configured systems when using an ATI Radeon™ HD 48xx product
* Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire™ scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all Radeon™ products when AA and AF is enabled



Well, off the bat my temps are lower.


Huh...I didn't believe this at first but the air coming out of the back isn't even hot. I can't find my dig thermometer to measure the exhaust but it is hardly warm.

Wow you are running a 4GHz memory clock. Crazy. I would like to see how far the GPU will go OCing on air. The highest I ever got my 2900Pro 1GB was 815MHz. But I decided that was not a very good idea to run consitently.

I wasn't even paying attention to the memory clocks in GPUz. That is not correct. I slipped in the updated version 2.6 and it corrected it. This is with the AMDtool OC hack + fan fix. Let the card frying begin!

Anybody with a 4xxx series, if you have Crysis, try running it with AAQ on. Im seeing in other forums theres barely any hit using AA with crysis with these drivers and the 4xxxs

Wow, Spinach. Those temps are way cooler than what everyone is complaining about. How did you manage to swing 40C/55C??

I put OCZ freeze on when I first got the card and am running at 50% fan speed. Having a constant fan speed helps a lot. The auto setting cycle between 5% and 80% speeds...it is really loud and annoying when it vents the hot air at 80%. I can deal with a constant 50% when I am gaming though.

I haven't checked yet, I have just been playing around with the temps/AMDtool tonight. What bench do you want to see?

Ok, here is a quick preview for the Crysis bench....need some sleep so I will cut it short for now. I can't get it in x64 for some reason and it says demo-benchmark....whatever.

Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX9 1680x1050, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 32 bit test, Windowed
Demo Loops=1, Time Of Day= 7
Global Game Quality: High
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 47.32s,
Average FPS: 42.26
Min FPS: 32.86 at frame 1300,
Max FPS: 53.50 at frame 1011
Average Tri/Sec: -37931272, Tri/Frame: -897514
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.02
TimeDemo Play Ended, (1 Runs Performed)



Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX9 1680x1050, AA=2x, Vsync=Disabled, 32 bit test, Windowed
Demo Loops=1, Time Of Day= 7
Global Game Quality: High
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 56.90s,
Average FPS: 35.15
Min FPS: 24.41 at frame 146,
Max FPS: 43.93 at frame 999
Average Tri/Sec: -30706284, Tri/Frame: -873669
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.05
TimeDemo Play Ended, (1 Runs Performed)

Pretty sure Crysis comes with one.

It is actually built in, but you have to dig around a bit to find it.

My Crysis Benchmark. Kinda dissapointing running in crossfire and this is all I get:


7/23/2008 8:17:34 PM - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX9 1680x1050, AA=2x, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 7
Global Game Quality: High
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 70.23s, Average FPS: 28.48
Min FPS: 18.29 at frame 1930, Max FPS: 40.74 at frame 1569
Average Tri/Sec: -17759584, Tri/Frame: -623596
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.47
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 62.08s, Average FPS: 32.21
Min FPS: 16.48 at frame 1940, Max FPS: 47.11 at frame 91
Average Tri/Sec: -20033294, Tri/Frame: -621877
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.47
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 61.81s, Average FPS: 32.36
Min FPS: 16.48 at frame 1940, Max FPS: 48.79 at frame 72
Average Tri/Sec: -20115148, Tri/Frame: -621629
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.47
TimeDemo Play Ended, (3 Runs Performed)
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Completed All Tests

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7/23/2008 8:17:34 PM - Vista 64

Run #1- DX9 1680x1050 AA=2x, 64 bit test, Quality: High ~~ Overall Average FPS: 32.285

could people please state whether they're using a 4850, 4870? (or more than one)

45% isnt that loud. On the other hand, setting mine to 70% gets the jet engine started.

I got a Sapphire 4870 with the stock cooler. My extra info has my system setup. I have an Antec900 so I already hear a whooshing noise form the case fans. at 45% I can hear the VGA cooler over the case fans but it doesn't have that hair dryer high pitched noise...just a louder whoosh.

I did a quick few minutes of Crysis on the new drivers and it seems the same to me. I haven't had the chance look into it deeper but here is my master plan; I dual boot Vista and XP. I haven't updated the drivers on Vista yet so I will benchmark with 8.6, upgrade, and then benchmark with 8.7 to see what is up with Crysis. I don't have much time though right this week.

Here are my results:

3DMark06, 8.6 Drivers- 18133
3DMark06, 8.7 Drivers- 18587


Q9450 @ 3.2 water cooled, Velociraptor, 4GB 1066 Raptors, HD 4870 Crossfire OC 790/1000, Corsair 740W, Antec 1200.

Yes, WIC gave me considerably higher scores in the built in benchmarks, like 5-10% increase. Somewhat better scaling, but I still expect there is room for driver improvment.