DirectX 9 CPU Benchmark Thread

No wonder, lucky you. Hard to maintain that at warmer, tropical areas. Can only run at 4.6 GHz max just to keep temp at 80C (same cooler) when gaming. Not sure if changing to water cooling would improve.

 

What is your voltage?

 

Underclocked, best at 0.925v at 1911MHz. Unstable if I go lower.

 

Aren't we talking CPU not GPU? 1911MHz is one slow CPU

 

My Bad! VCore? Around 1.25V (though w/ offset -0.5mV) .... and I just have cores set to 4.6GHz in bios.

 

I have an I5-8600K and a 1070TI. My benchmark is in the middle of the pack on the OP summary.

Based on all this data, I should buy a new CPU over a new GPU if I want the biggest VR fps boost,. I can put an i7-9700k into my existing board. The alternative is buying a 2080 Super. I won't pay over 1000 on a GPU for the TI.

 

@Boremar What you should do is overclock that 8600k. IMO. Why waste money on a CPU that's not much better than what you currently have when you have that K model to play with? The results from 9700k you see here are all from overclocked ones.

 

Thanks. I am overclocked from 4.5 to 4.8. I might be able to push it to 5 if I wanted, I suppose.

 

Look at the ms part, you are only less than 0.5ms away from top end CPUs. You will gain so much more going for better GPU than upgrade CPU in this case.

 

It really depends whether he is CPU or GPU limited (we can't tell from what was shared so far), how badly he wants to gain some fps and how much he is willing to pay for that.

 

I am willing to buy something if it will actually help performance by something more than 10%. I can gift used components to my son which have build his entire PC.

I have my super-sampling set at 1.0 and can maintain the 80 fps with 20+ cars and failrly high in-game settings. I am using Oculus VR directly to achieve this with the replacement openvr_api.dll to avoid using SteamVR. Avoiding StemaVR and using Oculus allowed me to lock at 80 fps with more displayed cars and higher settings

Now if I crank up the super sampling to anything higher 1.2 for example, my fps drops into ASW range. This behavior seemed to match up with the CPU-oriented benchmarking in this thread. I suppose I should spend some time monitoring this. Is there anything I should be looking at beyond CPU utilization?

 

I went from 6600k/1070 to 7700k/1080ti buying the 1080ti first and performance went up obviously by a big number.,going from low/Medium at 4k with plenty of dips under 60 to pretty much maxed out with no dips.
When I decided to get the 7700k I was just wanting to balance my system and while I did notice better overall smoothness the framerate didn't increase enough to justify the cost.

 

Explains everything

 

VR loads the GPU just as hard my friend I sold my Rift because my 1080Ti couldn't cope! I still had the Rift when I went to 7700k and again didn't gain FPS but rather overall smoothness.
There are tonnes of benchmarks showing 8600k doing fine even at 1080p, there is only 1 title (Farcry 5) i think that having only 6 cores is a problem with minimum and 1% lows.
If anyone had to choose (asking for help choosing) between going from 8600k to something faster or 1070 to faster for more FPS if anyone suggests the CPU they are misleading that person The 6 core may not be the fastest it certainly manages fine in the majority of games but chasing FPS you will need more GPU.
@Boremar stated he is getting FPS drops from raising SS from 1.0 to 1.2,this is entirely GPU related, he has 20 cars on track and maintaining 80fps so he is obviously using settings that limit CPU already.
Looking at his performance in the OP I believe he has something else holding his CPU because the single core performance of the 8600k is as fast as 8700k that is holding the first and third (same clock) spot

 

Look at my score (in OP) compared to the 9700k one above me, two generations apart and scoring the same single core 8600k and 8700k are the same CPU but one has hyperthreading that doesn't help in this test or Sim.
Save your money and get a better GPU! 100% and also optimize you PC and find where your loosing performance

 

I don't get what you disagree with. You were trying to run a 1070 in 4k. Of course you saw a big improvement upgrading to 1080Ti - 1070 is not powerful enough for 4k.

All I was saying. But whatever.

 

And OP is chasing more FPS in VR, all I'm saying

 

FYI: update on idle voltages and new chipset driver from AMD:
https://community.amd.com/community...te-5-let-s-talk-clocks-voltages-and-destiny-2

 

could use a replay file and force ppl to use the high and/or low graphics preset at 1080p? for a raceroom benchmark,