*OFFICIAL* Top 30 Heaven Benchmark 4.0 Scores - Page 46

You only get added if you make the Top 30. So that puts us Single card guys out of it now on this thread.

I wasn't put on there even though I should be... Did I do something wrong?

Kind of, you didnt put this bit in with your screen:
Member Name --- Processor / Speed ---- GPU Name, Core / Shaders / Memory ---- FPS ---- Score

But last time the scores got updated CDMAN said that you only get added if you make the top 30. No body with single card will make it onto this list anymore. Loads of us got missed out last time round for that reason.

It's obvious you don't have an AMD card otherwise you could have run the bench on the different tess settings to know that Heaven only uses a factor around 16x or less. More on this later.

The unigine thread is based on the honor system. There's nothing preventing anybody from cheating, whether it be from tess disabling or some degree of it to disabling AA or AF. People can cheat with those as well and it's just as hard if not more so to detect. And obviously that goes both ways, red and green. And on the topic of cheating, we as a community more or less police ourselves. Search my posts in the Heaven 2.5 and 3dmark 11 Performance threads. I wasn't the only one who called out the cheater in those threads. Anyways, Heaven has obvious limitations with respect to validating benches unlike 3dmark 11, however that doesn't mean everybody's runs cannot be validated by others in the community.


Just for the sake of this topic I ran with tess in various degrees from 2x to 32x. It looks to me like Heaven only uses tess factors up to 16x as I wrote above. The difference between 16x and 8x is 10 fps. And you gain 10fps with each tess factor drop. The differences are big and obvious. Also, there was marginal difference between App Controlled tess and AMD optimized. I'm going to zip up a bunch of screens showing the differences in the cobble from 2x to 32x all at the same locations and full runs from 8x/16x/AMD Optimized/App Controlled. If you want to see the differences pm me.

App Controlled




AMD Optimized



16x Tess factor



8x Tess factor




Anyways, if you don't like this thread, no one is forcing you to post in it.

Quad?
Go big or go home!

Geez, i was really close to get the last stop of the top 30 with a Q9650!

http://www.overclock.net/t/1249960/official-nvidia-gtx-690-owners-club/970#post_17266373

Shiloh --- Q9650 / 4.2ghz ---- GTX 690, 1200 / 1200, 3200 --- 98.1 ---- 2471
Edited by shiloh - 5/17/12 at 10:44pm

That was my whole argument, and that’s why I feel this bench off is compromised.

Also, there doesn’t seem to be a noticeable difference visually between x16 vs. x8 tessellation (or any of the other screenshots for that matter). The scores indicate a decent increase of 10 fps, so we know for a fact that it does make a difference.
Honestly, I don’t think anyone here would be able to tell the difference between any of the above screenshots if they were not labeled.
In closing, I never called anyone here a liar. Yet Majin and the other guy put words in my mouth and accused me of trolling for bringing up a VALID point. I could see if I just came in this thread throwing out baseless assumptions about AMDs’ tessellation slider and Heaven Benchmark 3.0 not knowing the difference.
And you can’t school me about Tahiti. I came from crossfire 7970 (I’ve owned a total of 4), and I know that they’re very fast cards with a nice ceiling. So it’s not like I never had the experience of using them. Currently though, I’m running sli with a couple of 680 sc signatures.

I don't know why it bolded my post like that.

The guy is just trolling us - for whatever reason. He's the only one that seems to even be thinking about gaming the system (from what I've seen on this thread). Everyone here is just trying to compare their respective systems...the word "competition" isn't even mentioned anywhere in the OP. There isn't even a point in cheating! It's not like anything is offered to the person with the highest score...

@PrincetonM

Go ahead and think this bench off is compromised. As tsm106 mentioned, you're free to leave at anytime. Word of advice: stop worrying so much about people cheating. It doesn't matter, and I honestly can say I don't think anyone is. The greater majority of everybody here is just trying to compare their cards...so quit with this "everyone is cheating" bs. It's unwanted and incredibly unnecessary. Nobody asked you to play police officer. Hell, nobody even dialed 911.

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