The installation followed the same course, a performance test.
Test System (relevant data)
- AMD FX 8350 (Octacore @ 4Ghz)
- 12 GB DDR3, Dual Channel)
- SSD, SATA3, 120GB
- Screen resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60Hz, 32bit colors
- Benchmark software: a) Heaven Unigine 3.0 b) Space Swarm, current Steam version
Test a) (test run with default settings of Heaven Unigine, DX11.0):
- MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II / OC: 1200 points, 45 FPS on average
- Sapphire 11217-01-20G dual X Radeon R9: 2200 points, 73 FPS on average
Test b)
- MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II / OC: 4400 points (variant with DX11.1)
- Sapphire 11217-01-20G dual X Radeon R9: about 8600 points (variant with DX11.1)
- Sapphire 11217-01-20G dual X Radeon R9: approximately 13100 points (variant with Mantle)
Conclusion: under DX11 an approximate doubling of performance. Under the Mantle card is only right their potential.
Noteworthy: The ATI card was never really noisy in the stress tests! The supposedly very quiet MSI card was clearly "better" to hear.
These test results are also reflected in similar "live performance", ie in the corresponding playing again. Battlefield 4 (approx 80FPS / section) and Lichdom Battlemage (about 60FPS / section, jerky under the Geforce GTX 560 still strong) support both Mantle, here the performance jump was therefore to be expected. Crysis 3 I have started without Mantle support - Again, the game runs at 40 FPS at max. Graphics settings acceptable. The Mantle patch should soon follow so, are the micro-stuttering passé.
My personal conclusion: fat performance upgrade for relatively little carbon. In addition, the Sapphire version is very quiet even under load. Clear recommendation!
