Unigine Heaven Benchmark DirectX 11
 

Hello

Whilst downloading the latest drivers for my MSI N460GTX Hawk GPU from the NVIDIA web page, I noticed that there was a download (under games) for DirectX 11 benchmarking. The download (Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.1 msi) is brilliant. It gives you the opportunity to try out most of the settings you use in game "on the fly", that is to say that you can try out various video settings and monitor the visual effects on frame rates and visual acuity. For the people who will be saying "we know" I apologies, for those of you who don't know, I say, get it. I for one need all the help I can get for those pesky fps's and this SW shows what is best for your PC combo.

Have fun

Vonte

http://uk.geforce.com/games-applicat...igine-heaven-2

Now that sound's handy, thanks!:)

cool beans! TU!

Although Unigine Heaven 2.1 is a great benchmarking tool, you can't use it as a test platform for the effect different visual options have on frame rate in other pieces of software/games.

Even though Heaven has tessellation, and you can see what % change from enabling/disabling it, it doesn't mean you will get that same % change in a video game with tessellation enabled/disabled; they're going to be completely different engines and you will get very different results.

It's still a great benchmarking tool, and can be helpful for quantifying theoretical performance gains from overclocking as well as to help verify the stability of your overclock (you'll always want to use more than one program for this, you can never 100% guarantee stability from one test platform).

If I misunderstood you and that's not what you meant I apologize, but if not I hope that clears some things up!

So how much of a test of the computer is this benchmark? My system runs this easily with everything maxed out except for tessellation and anti alias on 8. My monitor is running at 1900x1080 so it's not really needed over 2x.

The lowest it goes to is 40fps - it seems pretty locked on that even turning off vsync.

my specs.

2800k
Ati 9650 2GB
8GB DDR3

S!

A synthetic benchmark so ners can slap their ePeens and compare who's got the biggest one..nothing to do with real gaming IMO as brands can make specific "benchmark drivers" etc. to look good. Tinfoil hattery FTW!

Whenever you do benchmarks turn vsync off so it doesnt lock your fps to a lower setting.