Need 6850 Crossfire Benchmarks

[N11Ckk123472]

I just built a new system and currently has a MSI 6850 Power edition, OC to 925 core and 1175 Mem, stock volts (1149 I think)

I'm planning on buying another one, overclocking it to same and crossfire

What kind of FPS would I see in Skyrim/BF3 Ultra settings?

Rest of my Specs:
AMD Phenom 965 X4 OC to 3.7ghz with Corsair H60
7 120mm Blue LED fan
OCZ ModXTreme 600w Modular PSU
Asus M5A97 970 Motherboard
Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200RPM HDD
4 GB Wintec 1600 DDR3 Ram

 

[jryan388]

Doubt you'd notice any skyrim improvement (Can't you max it already?)
For a gpu-hungry game like bf3, you should notice around a 90% performance improvement.

Also notice that if the clocks are different on the cards, they will both run at the lower clock.


http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-11.html
toms didn't bench the 6850, but they did bench the 6870 and found +95% performance at 1680x1050. I'm sure you'd find very similar results with a 6850.

 

[cbrunnem]

you will not see the improvements you want to see in either of those games. they are both cpu dependent games especially skyrim and your cpu is just not up for it.

you will see improvements but not huge ones.

 

[jryan388]

you will not see the improvements you want to see in either of those games. they are both cpu dependent games especially skyrim and your cpu is just not up for it.

you will see improvements but not huge ones.

You will see improvement in bf3. I don't know what the heck this troll is talking about. Toms said "Battlefield 3's single-player campaign doesn’t care if you’re using a $130 Core i3 or $315 Core i7. It doesn’t care if you come armed with two Hyper-Threaded cores or four Bulldozer modules. It just. Doesn’t. Care."
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-13.html

And please check the other link I gave to see benchmark evidence that BF3 scales amazingly on 6800 series cards.

 

[cbrunnem]

You will see improvement in bf3. I don't know what the heck this troll is talking about. Toms said "Battlefield 3's single-player campaign doesn’t care if you’re using a $130 Core i3 or $315 Core i7. It doesn’t care if you come armed with two Hyper-Threaded cores or four Bulldozer modules. It just. Doesn’t. Care."
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-13.html

And please check the other link I gave to see benchmark evidence that BF3 scales amazingly on 6800 series cards.

what are you talking about????

bf3 and skyrim ARE cpu dependent to a degree. i dont give any shits about what toms said about single player, multiplayer is way different. in these two games he will not see the benefit of crossfire that a game like crysis would show.

 

[jryan388]

Yes, skyrim for sure. I didn't say anything to the contrary.

OP didn't say they were only playing multiplayer. And of course every game ever made is cpu-dependant to a certain degree; bf3 is just less so than many current games. Unfortunately there is no accurate way to measure multiplayer fps because gameplay changes so much from game to game. I guess experience is the only way there.