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  1. Actually I can see, how the first case wouldn't work.

     

    A simple algo would pick the newer card as the faster one & rank the results accordingly.

     

     

    But what if someone ran a 7970 & a 260.

     

    The 260 is newer, so the algo would rank the results as 2 x 260, but the 7970 is actually faster.

    Hmnn.

  2. BTW what's the policy on using different GPUs in parallel? because I have 260X and HD 5850 available for use.

     

    You can combine any two cards, the result will be ranked in the stronger card category.

    For example if you run

    290X & 7970, the result will be counted as 2 290Xs.

  3. screenshot

    Its allowed.

    But if its not a stable overclock for this bench, then the run will fail.

     

    Its same as the "Not in Round error" people get on Super Pi when pushing memory.

     

    Lower the frequency a little bit & it will pass. Sometimes you get lucky & are able to get the bench pass at a frequency that was previously unstable.

  4. We have discussed this recently and came to the conclusion that 32B makes no sense today. It's just not fun to run this benchmark on single cards for more than 15 minutes to get a result. Yeah, multiple GPUs have a lot of performance headroom and will push the times faster towards zero than what's possible with other benchmarks. If that happens 32B might become more popular for multiple graphics cards and we will react on it properly, may add or even shift points to 32B. But that will take a good while in computer years. :)

     

     

    Even for Single GPUs if we look at the Generational increase we might reach to zero fast maybe even with the upcoming 390X

     

    Just look at the difference between 7970 & 290X at similar clockspeeds

     

    http://hwbot.org/submission/2719953_vadimua_gpupi___1b_radeon_hd_7970_35sec_410ms

    http://hwbot.org/submission/2760482_d0minat0r_gpupi___1b_radeon_r9_290x_17sec_929ms

     

    A 390X on Ln2 might just get to zero.

     

    And for multi GPU, you already saw this

    http://hwbot.org/submission/2820501_pulse88_gpupi___1b_3x_radeon_r9_290x_5sec_907ms

     

    4 x 290Xs on LN2 & its over. In the begining of the thread, people were quite ready for a longer GPU bench, don't know what changed.

  5. Yeah.. Points.

     

    Although shouldn't the points have been enabled on the 32B version of the Bench since with the 1B version we will be under 1s with the next gen GPUs or maybe the Gen after. Wouldn't that make this bench short lived, ~ 2 years or so.

     

    Just a suggestion.

  6. Can someone from the staff please tell me if it was absolutely necessary to have the CPU-Z memeory tab open during the ScreenShots used for submissions. I just noticed that I didn't do that for some of my subs in the 2Core/4Core rounds.

     

    Its XTU so I don't think it matters much, but would prefer to have a proper answer so I can understand how it will affect the work I put in last month & if I should continue.

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