No worries, still just puzzled. Well I guess you will see when you get the 2011 setup. I hope you see some improvements.
I'm sorry, I don't want to appear pedantic, but:
1) He's using SSAO
2) He didn't get into a big firefight in a demanding story mission or in a Trial of the Rakyat with 10+ enemies on screen, everything burning down and explosions.
Your video doesn't prove much. I get almost double those FPS with my system in those condition. That's not what I'm debating.
No worries, still just puzzled. Well I guess you will see when you get the 2011 setup. I hope you see some improvements.
It would be interesting to baseline a 2600K with some new games (to keep within the SB IPC), then pit that result vs LGA 2011 i7-3820 & 3930K to see if it is the improved memory and PCIe bandwidth of LGA 2011 that bring the most to the table, or if it is purely the two extra cores. It's probably already been done somewhere.
I haven't run across any platform comparisons using Titan SLI. With Tri-SLI, the need for X79 is obvious, but so far it seems the thinking is the 2 Titans are not going to saturate the bus on a 1155 system. These tests were performed with a quad core 3820 X79 system and display fairly good consistent results, which makes me think the extra memory channels and PCIe lanes are helping performance, but obviously two puzzle pieces are missing.
Wandering in the jungle I can get around 100 FPS with my TITANs using a Z77. What worries me are the minimum FPS, which are not taken into account by many reviewers. I easily go in the 50s in huge firefights during the story missions. I'd also like to know what part of the game was actually tested in the review.
....do you not read reviews like those on HardOCP?
There are two clear trends which are hard to ignore.
On the one hand Intel is pushing further and further IPC improvements in their cores and SB to haswell is a notable increase even if its not dramatically better. They are pushing IPC for a reason, most software isn't really benefiting from many cores and the reason is its hard/impossible to multithread the software and show performance improvements.
The second trend is this year a lot of games have been showing marked improvements in mutlithread performance. The 3930k all of last year was almost always slower than a 2600k (let alone the 3770k) because it was down on clock speed and yet this year its showing slightly higher performance in the grand majority of games.
We are moving past 4 cores now, but the gains are normally pretty moderate so far. Investing in an old technology for the future seems odd but of the two choices SB-E is still the more forward looking with its increased memory bandwidth and 6 cores. If they were the same price it wouldn't be an easy decision, but because SB-E is still really expensive I would choose a 4770k today.
There are two clear trends which are hard to ignore.
On the one hand Intel is pushing further and further IPC improvements in their cores and SB to haswell is a notable increase even if its not dramatically better. They are pushing IPC for a reason, most software isn't really benefiting from many cores and the reason is its hard/impossible to multithread the software and show performance improvements.
The second trend is this year a lot of games have been showing marked improvements in mutlithread performance. The 3930k all of last year was almost always slower than a 2600k (let alone the 3770k) because it was down on clock speed and yet this year its showing slightly higher performance in the grand majority of games.
We are moving past 4 cores now, but the gains are normally pretty moderate so far. Investing in an old technology for the future seems odd but of the two choices SB-E is still the more forward looking with its increased memory bandwidth and 6 cores. If they were the same price it wouldn't be an easy decision, but because SB-E is still really expensive I would choose a 4770k today.
There are two clear trends which are hard to ignore.
On the one hand Intel is pushing further and further IPC improvements in their cores and SB to haswell is a notable increase even if its not dramatically better. They are pushing IPC for a reason, most software isn't really benefiting from many cores and the reason is its hard/impossible to multithread the software and show performance improvements.
The second trend is this year a lot of games have been showing marked improvements in mutlithread performance. The 3930k all of last year was almost always slower than a 2600k (let alone the 3770k) because it was down on clock speed and yet this year its showing slightly higher performance in the grand majority of games.
We are moving past 4 cores now, but the gains are normally pretty moderate so far. Investing in an old technology for the future seems odd but of the two choices SB-E is still the more forward looking with its increased memory bandwidth and 6 cores. If they were the same price it wouldn't be an easy decision, but because SB-E is still really expensive I would choose a 4770k today.
I switched from 3770k to 3930k. No changes whatsoever in games like Far Cry 3 and Hitman Absolution. I'm extremely disappointed.
So you're still getting dips in GPU utilization? Is your setup running in PCIe 3?
I'm running PCI-E 3. In Far Cry 3 as soon as there is some action GPU usage goes down to 40-50% and FPS are in the 50s. If I activate MSAA 8x GPU usage goes at 70% and FPS stay the same!
I'm running PCI-E 3. In Far Cry 3 as soon as there is some action GPU usage goes down to 40-50% and FPS are in the 50s. If I activate MSAA 8x GPU usage goes at 70% and FPS stay the same!
Try Crysis 3 and metro maxed out. I bet both titans get pegged even at 1080p.