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

[Zolon]

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

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Great, I'll try that tomorrow, hopefully I won't brick my card.

[Cheddle]

Great, I'll try that tomorrow, hopefully I won't brick my card.

I followed the instructions exactly (make sure your cmd is launched as admin)

I had to reboot before afterburner grabbed new speeds

[Jumper118]

 

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

 

can i put these tips in the op?

[Raudi_]

can i put these tips in the op?

Go for it, these same tweaks work for 3dMark also

[sugalumps]

gtx 980 msi gaming

+180 core

+220 mem

boosting 1530 mhz

[rockmassif]

Updating score.

 

CPU: 4670K @ 4600

GPU: R9 280X @ 1212/1752

FPS: 52.9

Score: 2214

Preset: Extreme HD

 

Probably highest I can get. New Omega drivers and took KingCry's advices. And a slightly better OC.

 

[flibberdipper]

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

 

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That puts my 7950 to shame! Time to attempt to boost it up from that shit 900Mhz stock clock.

[Jumper118]

That puts my 7950 to shame! Time to attempt to boost it up from that shit 900Mhz stock clock.

fans on 100% windows open case side panel off!

[flibberdipper]

fans on 100% windows open case side panel off!

Dude, that thing hit 85C within less than a minute of starting the benchmark, and its fans were set to 100%. With my luck, I'll get it to 925 and it will hit 90C and throttle to 600MHz.

[Jumper118]

Dude, that thing hit 85C within less than a minute of starting the benchmark, and its fans were set to 100%. With my luck, I'll get it to 925 and it will hit 90C and throttle to 600MHz.

re-paste it. there is no way it should be getting that hot at stock with the fans on 100%

[flibberdipper]

re-paste it. there is no way it should be getting that hot at stock with the fans on 100%

It was worse before I used my crap thermal paste on it. With luck I can coax my family into getting my a Hyper 212 EVO for Christmas as well as a DAC for my netbook, since I can use the thermal paste. My Dell needs some new stuff, as does HELIOS.

[Jumper118]

It was worse before I used my crap thermal paste on it. With luck I can coax my family into getting my a Hyper 212 EVO for Christmas as well as a DAC for my netbook, since I can use the thermal paste. My Dell needs some new stuff, as does HELIOS.

it shouldn't make that much difference

[flibberdipper]

it shouldn't make that much difference

Well... It was constantly at 90C before. Even in ETS2. Now it hangs around 70C. I want a new card sooooooooooooooooooooo bad.

[Jumper118]

Well... It was constantly at 90C before. Even in ETS2. Now it hangs around 70C. I want a new card sooooooooooooooooooooo bad.

i presume a G10 is out of the question. you could sell it and get a shapphire vapour x that would be one of the coolest and quietest

[flibberdipper]

i presume a G10 is out of the question. you could sell it and get a shapphire vapour x that would be one of the coolest and quietest

Probably is. Nobody on Neowin cared when I asked.

 

And I can't really sell it, since then I would have a small amount of money to use. I don't really have a job.

[Wingfan]

@Jumper118 how do the Vapor X's perform?

[Briggsy]

Probably is. Nobody on Neowin cared when I asked.

 

And I can't really sell it, since then I would have a small amount of money to use. I don't really have a job.

 

could always try lapping the cooler. My old 7950 Powercolor POS+ looked like someone took a hacksaw to the heatsink shim. after careful work with some dishsoap and really fine grain sandpaper (or aluminum oxide paper, I can't remember), I was able to get a mirror finish on the contact area and a lot lower temps.

[flibberdipper]

could always try lapping the cooler. My old 7950 Powercolor POS+ looked like someone took a hacksaw to the heatsink shim. after careful work with some dishsoap and really fine grain sandpaper (or aluminum oxide paper, I can't remember), I was able to get a mirror finish on the contact area and a lot lower temps.

Mine actually looks fine. It's not shiny, but it's not hacksaw.

[Jumper118]

@Jumper118 how do the Vapor X's perform?

never had one personally but sapphire make all the reference pcbs for amd, so they know what they are doing. they are one of the coolest and quietest 7970/7950's and they come clocked pretty high too. 

[Cheddle]

Dude, that thing hit 85C within less than a minute of starting the benchmark, and its fans were set to 100%. With my luck, I'll get it to 925 and it will hit 90C and throttle to 600MHz.

 

http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52

 

I have this on my 4870 and it works a treat.

 

I was going to use it on my reference r9 290 but I sold the r9 290 before the cooler arrived... 

[Jumper118]

http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52

 

I have this on my 4870 and it works a treat.

 

I was going to use it on my reference r9 290 but I sold the r9 290 before the cooler arrived... 

+1 on that. i have one on one of my 480's

[flibberdipper]

http://www.gelidsolutions.com/products/index.php?lid=1&cid=17&id=52

 

I have this on my 4870 and it works a treat.

 

I was going to use it on my reference r9 290 but I sold the r9 290 before the cooler arrived... 

Not even compatible with my card, sadly.

[Raudi_]

Not even compatible with my card, sadly.

Did you try the tweaks that are now on the first page yet?

[flibberdipper]

Did you try the tweaks that are now on the first page yet?

No. I just got home.

[Raudi_]

No. I just got home.

Yeah give them a shot for a higher score, also make sure you have the screws for your GPU really tightened down good to get real good contact with the core, I had to do it for the 6950 I have.