Battlefield 4 Beta Performance: 16 Graphics Cards, Benchmarked

[slomo4sho]

My conclusion... at 1440p maximum settings, 780 SLI is CPU bottlenecked by a 5 GHz 2600k. That's insane, frankly.
2600k @ stock - 49.6
2600k @ 4.8 GHz - 70.0 FPS
2600k @ 5 GHz - 77.0 FPS
2600k @ 5 GHz, Hyperthreading disabled - 67.3 FPS

Mind running these tests at 1080P and/or 1440P using a single GTX 780?

 

[Fizbini]

my system spec:
i5-4670k OC'd too 4.2 ghz liquid cooling
AMD 7950 with newest beta drivers

I use the in game fps counter. Heavy action I get 100% cpu and gpu usage
when playing on high settings everything runs perfect >60 fps
when playing on ultra i get dips too around 45 fps in heavy action areas on 64 player maps.
on a side note when i OC my video card i get the occasional direct x crash, though this never happened on other games.. anyone know what I can do about that? Currently I can run it at 1150 and 10% power on other games and stress tests no problems.. even when I crank it up to 20% power and say 1100 on bf4 it crashes sometimes. Temperatures are not an issue, even when cranking the power too 20%.

 

[BigMack70]

@slomo4sho

I'd love to but I don't know if I'll get a few hours to do it before the beta ends

 

[ninong]

i need a new graphics card before bf4 starts..should i buy the 7970/280x now or wait and hope nvidia drops their prices? my budget is only $350 (2560x1440)

Is your power supply capable of handling such a GPU?

yup, otherwise i wouldn't have posted that

600w silverstone (included in sg07)

 

[logainofhades]

i need a new graphics card before bf4 starts..should i buy the 7970/280x now or wait and hope nvidia drops their prices? my budget is only $350 (2560x1440)

Is your power supply capable of handling such a GPU?

yup, otherwise i wouldn't have posted that

600w silverstone (included in sg07)

Just checking. Far too often on here you see people wanting to run a 7970 or something on a 300w OEM power supply. :lol: I would probably wait for the new, non rebadged, AMD cards to come out and see how it affects pricing.

 

[Guest]

GTX 660? GTX 760 would have been a better card to review on this one...

 

[damian86]

So would having 8 threads benefit the game? would it make the cpu more stable or you guys think the game would not use the 8 threads?

 

[smurfman256]

Why didn't you test with the 780?

 

[paplo22]

Im using a q9500 with a gt630 ddr3 and Im getting stable 30 fps even when Im recording so you dont need a gtx if you something cheap
(my pc dont have any overclock)
(sorry for the bad english)

 

[Novuake]

Im using a q9500 with a gt630 ddr3 and Im getting stable 30 fps even when Im recording so you dont need a gtx if you something cheap
(my pc dont have any overclock)
(sorry for the bad english)

Resolution you re playing at?

 

[paplo22]

Im using a q9500 with a gt630 ddr3 and Im getting stable 30 fps even when Im recording so you dont need a gtx if you something cheap
(my pc dont have any overclock)
(sorry for the bad english)

Resolution you re playing at?

Im playing at 1280x720

 

[Novuake]

Im using a q9500 with a gt630 ddr3 and Im getting stable 30 fps even when Im recording so you dont need a gtx if you something cheap
(my pc dont have any overclock)
(sorry for the bad english)

Resolution you re playing at?

Im playing at 1280x720

Well its a shame that 30FPS will be laggy as hell.

 

[ninong]

i need a new graphics card before bf4 starts..should i buy the 7970/280x now or wait and hope nvidia drops their prices? my budget is only $350 (2560x1440)

Is your power supply capable of handling such a GPU?

yup, otherwise i wouldn't have posted that

600w silverstone (included in sg07)

Just checking. Far too often on here you see people wanting to run a 7970 or something on a 300w OEM power supply. :lol: I would probably wait for the new, non rebadged, AMD cards to come out and see how it affects pricing.

makes sense, my hands do get itchy though :/ i wish the r9 290 will be at the $400 price point

 

[Abe504]

Sad, my 560ti is left in the dust.....time to upgrade

 

[tqb555]

How can the GT 630 get 35+ fps? My GTX 650 only get gets 20.

 

[_zxzxzx_]

Would have liked to see some of the new AMD cards benched.

 

[Novuake]

How can the GT 630 get 35+ fps? My GTX 650 only get gets 20.

Same resolution? Lowest settings possible? Decent CPU?

 

[Novuake]

Would have liked to see some of the new AMD cards benched.

They are the same thing as this gen.... Geesh...

 

[DragonChase]

the game has been optimised lately.

4770k
7950
16 gb ram

Never dips below 50, i actually spike most of the time 80fps on ultra??? i know im also like this =|

 

[Avro Arrow]

It seems strange that you left out the GTX 760 and GTX 780 given their current popularity. Why were those cards omitted?

 

[Avro Arrow]

You stated on page 7 that the HD 7790 and the HD 7770 both stuttered but your graph disputes this by placing the HD 7770 in a better position than the GTX 660 and the HD 7870. Should the HD 7870 and HD 7770 be in different places on the graph?

 

[mirakul2]

I don't know why nVidia's cards look so good in Tom's review. Have a look at other site

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=382066

The truth is a 690 always below 7990, not like in this article.

 

[hp360]

On page 6 I believe you mean 7790, as it has the worst frame time variance while the 7770 has the best.

 

[fanman]

"After logging hours of play time in Battlefield 4 Beta using both the Radeon R9 280X and GeForce GTX 770, the AMD Radeon R9 280X appears to deliver a far superior gaming experience compared to the NVIDIA GeForce 770 GTX no matter what the framerate graphs show."

M.I.A (mantle in action) ?

 

[06yfz450ridr]

Hyperthreading appears to have tangible benefit in this game, to a degree I've not seen before in a game.

I don't think SLI overhead is to blame on my setup. Over on the BF4 forums, some people were suggesting it may be an issue with Windows 7 (as people with similar rigs to mine were claiming higher-than-60fps minimum framerates with Windows 8). So it's possible that Windows 8 would fix the CPU bottleneck. I'm not sure... I never know how much to trust anecdotal claims like that, and I don't feel like setting up a dual boot with Windows 8 or 8.1 to find out myself.

I will be testing this today on my system but running a more stable OC of 4.77 and my 7970 @ 1250/1600 to see if windows 7 vs 8.1 helps any. I was on last night and tons of people were saying they tried it and got a 10 fps boost
.
I'm going to dual boot 8.1 preview and windows 7.