Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***

[Cheddle]

Well, I strangely noticed less of a performance boost in Valley, than in heaven.

Also somehow my card runns with 1.232V for some time and then decides to dropp down to 1.212. with 1.232 I had my card running stable with ~1590MHz, well the 5 minutes the voltage stayed that high at least.

 

 

Probably TDP related, I would monitor the GPU clocks and see if it drops.

 

 

It drops at ~70°C. The GPU clock drops as soon as the voltage drops aswell, but then runns stable without artifacts for hours.

 

 

Yeah your at your TDP max so the card has to drop back the voltage and clock speeds.

 

 

So I guess MSI afterburner can't override this setting. Well I won't turn up my fanspeed, I don't need a turbine next to my ear.

But, it won't drop even more, even if it reaches 78°C.

 

 

Each time you increase temps by 1 degree Celcius, you increase the leakage of the GPU, which means more voltage is required to maintain stability (and more voltage means more heat).

 

maybe try removing the side panel or something?

 

 

Yes it is at 122% and temp target is at 91°C (because i never reach it)

 

I have a pretty good airflow in my case, but I will try, just to maybe brake that 1600 MHz barrier

 

 

Also quick tip keep the VRMs as cool as you can also will give you better stability. 

 

^^^

Welcome to GPUboost2.0

 

it reduces the "overvoltage" as temps increase, you NEED to keep the card below 68 (iirc) to maintain +50mv core. otherwise it drops by 25mv - and reduces core by 11mhz - and then your unstable, as 11mhz is not enough to maintain stability with 25mv gone...

 

My G1 gaming does this exact thing as does nearly every gtx980/gtx970 evor even though I am only at at 70% TDP limit...

[Jumper118]

Still holding top spot.

2600k/Titan still beast mode.

B) it wasn't even a titan black as well

[Cheddle]

Updating 1080, 1440 and 4k scores:

 

 

cpu: i5-4690

gpu: gtx980 g1 gaming

core: 1403mhz / 1504mhz boost

mem: 1990mhz @ 1080/4k and 1965mhz @ 1440

 

-----

Setting: 1080

Score: 3355

fps: 80.2

-----

Setting: 1440

Score: 2036

fps:48.7

-----

Setting: 4k

Score: 945

fps: 22.6

[Raudi_]

^^^

Welcome to GPUboost2.0

 

it reduces the "overvoltage" as temps increase, you NEED to keep the card below 68 (iirc) to maintain +50mv core. otherwise it drops by 25mv - and reduces core by 11mhz - and then your unstable, as 11mhz is not enough to maintain stability with 25mv gone...

 

My G1 gaming does this exact thing as does nearly every gtx980/gtx970 evor even though I am only at at 70% TDP limit...

This can be fixed with a BIOS edit. It does the same thing for the GK104 760/770's

[Wingfan]

-Update to my 280 CF score-

 

G3258 @ 4.7Ghz
 

PowerColor R9 280 CF  ( 1075/1510 )

 

Screen shot didnt work, but ill fix that later. Beat my 760's

 

[Jumper118]

-Update to my 280 CF score-

 

G3258 @ 4.7Ghz

 

PowerColor R9 280 CF  ( 1075/1510 )

 

Screen shot didnt work, but ill fix that later. Beat my 760's

 

that is much better

[Wingfan]

that is much better

Definitly! The 2nd 280 is a dog tho, cant push it past 1075 and the other can do 1200.

I can push the Mem higher but the score decreases.

[sugalumps]

So how do we upload pictures bigger than 2mb exactly? I.e our unigine screenshots.

[Cheddle]

So how do we upload pictures bigger than 2mb exactly? I.e our unigine screenshots.

 

resize them in paint, its the easiest way.

[Wingfan]

that is much better

question...i didnt touch the voltage when i did this, my second 280 is a dog, will pushing some more volts help?

[Cheddle]

This can be fixed with a BIOS edit. It does the same thing for the GK104 760/770's

 

do you know of a good source of info on this (that isn't 400 pages of forum posts lol)

[Wingfan]

resize them in paint, its the easiest way.

Paint is my friend

[Cheddle]

question...i didnt touch the voltage when i did this, my second 280 is a dog, will pushing some more volts help?

 

yep, provided the temps are not bashing limiter. and that your PSU is good.

[Cheddle]

Paint is my friend

 

winkey+R, "mspaint", enter

[Wingfan]

yep, provided the temps are not bashing limiter. and that your PSU is good.

Im hitting 71c......800w PSU

 

-edit-

the best PSU i have ever bought!

[Raudi_]

do you know of a good source of info on this (that isn't 400 pages of forum posts lol)

http://www.overclock.net/t/1517316/extract-and-flash-gtx-970-and-980-firmware-nolimits-and-gamestable

Usage Notes/Benching Tips

1. For NOLIMITS bios, set "Power management mode" in the NVCP to "Prefer maximum performance".

2. Although the power limits are increased, the sliders still go to 125%. This is because the default power was also increased.

3. The BIOS still scales to low voltage/clockspeeds when idling, and does not implement the P00,P02 workaround, it actually does voltage scaling correctly.

4. If benching, be sure to set Preferred refresh rate to "Application-Controlled".

5. If benching, remember to set Vertical sync to OFF. Leaving G-SYNC enabled, for example, causes a severe drop in bench scores.

6. There is strong evidence that afterburner may be incorrectly showing 1.275v. Several people, including myself, have measured the actual voltage from the back of the card to be at ~1.31-1.32v.

7. Gamestable final tested for 10 hours by playing borderlands TPS WHILE encoding x264 at the same time using OPENCL extensions.

8. NOLIMITS bios tested bench stable 3dmark firestrike ultra.

9. These BIOS's were tested on 980 SLI 70.5% ASIC and 64% ASIC quality.

[Wingfan]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1517316/extract-and-flash-gtx-970-and-980-firmware-nolimits-and-gamestable

Usage Notes/Benching Tips

1. For NOLIMITS bios, set "Power management mode" in the NVCP to "Prefer maximum performance".

2. Although the power limits are increased, the sliders still go to 125%. This is because the default power was also increased.

3. The BIOS still scales to low voltage/clockspeeds when idling, and does not implement the P00,P02 workaround, it actually does voltage scaling correctly.

4. If benching, be sure to set Preferred refresh rate to "Application-Controlled".

5. If benching, remember to set Vertical sync to OFF. Leaving G-SYNC enabled, for example, causes a severe drop in bench scores.

6. There is strong evidence that afterburner may be incorrectly showing 1.275v. Several people, including myself, have measured the actual voltage from the back of the card to be at ~1.31-1.32v.

7. Gamestable final tested for 10 hours by playing borderlands TPS WHILE encoding x264 at the same time using OPENCL extensions.

8. NOLIMITS bios tested bench stable 3dmark firestrike ultra.

9. These BIOS's were tested on 980 SLI 70.5% ASIC and 64% ASIC quality.

Good info! 

[Raudi_]

Little Tweaks I do suggest for scoring higher in valley

 

Nvidia:

1) Right click on your desktop to bring up the NVIDIA control panel, and click on “Manage 3D Settings.” Click the Program Settings tab, then the drop down box to choose Valley. If you don’t see it you can click the Add button for Unigine Engine, or Browse for Valley.exe which is in C>Program files (x86)>Unigine>Valley>bin. Change the following four items, then click Apply.

>Muti-display/mixed-GPU acceleration change to Single display performance mode

>Power management mode change to Prefer maximum performance

>Texture filtering – Quality change to High performance

>Vertical sync changed to off

2) Now click on “Adjust image settings with preview” in the control panel. Click the “Use my preference emphasizing:” button and change the slider to Performance, then click Apply.

3) Have only one monitor plugged into your card(s).

4) Overclock your chip as much as you can with reasonable stability.

5) Overclock your card’s memory as much as possible, Valley likes high memory clocks, then overclock your card’s core as much as possible.

6) Change your desktop theme to Windows Classic.

7) Shut down all other programs, and do not have any monitoring software running.

8) You need to keep your card from throttling. Many cards have a thermal throttle point, such as 70c, where they downclock. If you are not underwater then open up your case, use a floor fan blowing on your cards, run Valley at the coldest part of the day, or anything else you can do to keep all your gpus under their throttle point. Some cards will allow a greater oc if they are colder as well.

9) Hit ENTER to scroll through the first few seconds of each of Valley’s 18 scenes before hitting F9 to start the benchmark.

 

 AMD:

 

Open Catalyst Control Center

Gaming (tab)

3D Applications Settings

Press Add

Go to C://Programs files (x86)// Unigine // Valley // bin // valley.exe

 

Under Anti-Aliasing: you don't change anything

 

Under Texture Filtering:

Set Anisotropic Filtering Mode:Override Application Settings

Set Anisotropic Filtering Level: 2x

Set Texture Filtering Quality: Perfomance

Set Surface Format Optimizations : Off

 

Only for multi-gpu:

For crossfire the default profile is working fine. But you can force 1x1 optimization or AFR friendly if you believe that you will achieve a higher score.

For tri-fire or quad you NEED to force 1x1 optimization to have a good usage across the cards.

 

Tab : Performance

Go to AMD overdrive and disable it. For benching you should use MSI AB or Trixx

 

 

Windows Tweaks:

Disable AERO.

Right click on the desktop

Personalize

Basic and High Contrast Themes and choose Windows 7 Basic

 

Set priority of valley.exe

Open valley and while you are on the launcher do this.Right click on the taskbar

Start Task Manager

Processes

Find valley.exe

Right click

Set priority and choose Real Time

 

Turn off UAC.

Its just useless

 

Disable indexing on C: Drive .

Right click on your C

Properties

Untick ''Allow files on this driver to have contents indexed in addition to file properties''

Apply changes to drive C:/,subfolders and files (you should install valley on your ssd if you search the optimal performance)

 

Terminate explorer.exe

Open task manager

Find explorer.exe

Right click End process

[Wingfan]

awsome @KingCry thanx

[Zolon]

This can be fixed with a BIOS edit. It does the same thing for the GK104 760/770's

Just how dangerous is flashing a GPU BIOS? Everything I have read so far has turned me away, since I realy hate to brick a 600€ Card. As long as it is detected it would be possible to flash back to the old bios?

I already nearly bricked my Motherboard because of a failed bios update.

[Raudi_]

Just how dangerous is flashing a GPU BIOS? Everything I have read so far has turned me away, since I realy hate to brick a 600€ Card. As long as it is detected it would be possible to flash back to the old bios?

I already nearly bricked my Motherboard because of a failed bios update.

If it fails to flash or flashes incorrectly you will have to use onboard video or a secondary GPU to reflash your card.

[Zolon]

If it fails to flash or flashes incorrectly you will have to use onboard video or a secondary GPU to reflash your card.

But it is possible that I will not be able to reflash my card? I've read about that.

[Raudi_]

But it is possible that I will not be able to reflash my card? I've read about that.

Yes its very possible, I had that almost happen to me once.

[Cheddle]

http://www.overclock.net/t/1517316/extract-and-flash-gtx-970-and-980-firmware-nolimits-and-gamestable

Usage Notes/Benching Tips

snip

 

Took your advice

new high score!

went with the "gamestable" bios and upped it a little from there, biggest difference was more core voltage.

 

3459 points

82.7 fps

afterburner was reporting 1580mhz on boost lol

 

[Raudi_]

Took your advice

new high score!

went with the "gamestable" bios and upped it a little from there, biggest difference was more core voltage.

 

3459 points

82.7 fps

afterburner was reporting 1580mhz on boost lol

 

1080custom.png

Sweet now you got the full TDP of you card now also