Star Swarm Benchmark

[MadShadow]

Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\Kieran\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_14_02_01_2111.txt
Version 1.00
02/01/2014 21:11
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000
CPU: GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 8
Physical Memory: 17059774464
Allocatable Memory: 140737488224256
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 6161

Average FPS: 17.11
Average Unit Count: 3877
Maximum Unit Count: 5548
Average Batches/MS: 325.06
Maximum Batches/MS: 2734.41
Average Batch Count: 21094
Maximum Batch Count: 129291
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That's my laptop with a GT 650M. I was fairly impressed with the results.

 

[Zoot]

Ran it again:

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Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\Mark\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_14_02_01_1721.txt
Version 1.00
02/01/2014 17:21
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 8
Physical Memory: 17160171520
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 12190

Average FPS: 33.86
Average Unit Count: 4136
Maximum Unit Count: 5482
Average Batches/MS: 475.23
Maximum Batches/MS: 1426.73
Average Batch Count: 13848
Maximum Batch Count: 91744
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Slightly higher result this time.

 

[Cru]

36.32
25.15
31.18
35.31
46.43
29.46

i just want to highlight this again as we've passed a couple pages so that people don't get confused.

the results seem to be very random and are not comparable at all

 

[NeverBackDown]

Tbh i'm only wanting to the the RTS camera mode results. The difference is huge.. i went from 33FPS to 8FPS just by switching the camera.

 

[B3rni3]

Ok so I tried to run this there and the fans on my cards pretty much stayed at idle. They did go up ever so slightly around 90 seconds in and I was seeing 9 fps in the intense sections.

I don't know if that is suppose to happen but it is far from stressing my system if the fans don't kick in on my gpus.

 

[Zoot]

I'm actually getting quite excited by running this benchmark. ^_^

I absolutely LOVED the Sins Of a Solar Empire games, this looks amazing so far. Too bad that it'll probably be quite a while before it gets released though.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Ok so I tried to run this there and the fans on my cards pretty much stayed at idle. They did go up ever so slightly around 90 seconds in and I was seeing 9 fps in the intense sections.

I don't know if that is suppose to happen but it is far from stressing my system if the fans don't kick in on my gpus.

Remember its in Alpha. Give it time. Plus its stresses the CPU more than the GPU as of now anyway.

 

[Pogal_31]

I'm actually getting quite excited by running this benchmark. ^_^

I absolutely LOVED the Sins Of a Solar Empire games, this looks amazing so far. Too bad that it'll probably be quite a while before it gets released though.

This benchmark makes me so nostalgic, reminds me the many hours, days, months playing Homeworld, I would really like that a game like that come again for our PC's...

 

[barnsley]

This benchmark makes me so nostalgic, reminds me the many hours, days, months playing Homeworld, I would really like that a game like that come again for our PC's...

I think gearbox or someone bought the rights to it recently ^_^ they said they wanted to a HD re release then a new game. One of my fave games of all time was homeworld 2.

 

[Pogal_31]

I think gearbox or someone bought the rights to it recently ^_^ they said they wanted to a HD re release then a new game. One of my fave games of all time was homeworld 2.

Woaw glad to hear that, it would be great
Homeworld 2 was awesome, but my love stays with the first one, I was crazy when getting in fight with the Kadesh, and spending a lot of time in the last mission but one stealing the huge amount of fregates in order to maximize my fleet xD

 

[BigDaddyKong]

After 14.1 and Mantle

== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 19796

Average FPS: 54.99
Average Unit Count: 4516
Maximum Unit Count: 5727
Average Batches/MS: 926.61
Maximum Batches/MS: 2755.79
Average Batch Count: 18719
Maximum Batch Count: 120986
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14.1 3D
== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 12803

Average FPS: 35.56
Average Unit Count: 4045
Maximum Unit Count: 5341
Average Batches/MS: 716.94
Maximum Batches/MS: 1415.06
Average Batch Count: 21808
Maximum Batch Count: 170191
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[MadShadow]

After 14.1 and Mantle

== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 19796

Average FPS: 54.99
Average Unit Count: 4516
Maximum Unit Count: 5727
Average Batches/MS: 926.61
Maximum Batches/MS: 2755.79
Average Batch Count: 18719
Maximum Batch Count: 120986
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Impressive!

 

[BigDaddyKong]

It also took my GPU usage to 99% about 97% of the benchmark. On 3d mode, usage was back down to 52% most of the time. I look forward to when they get crossfire working.

 

[Pogal_31]

Here is mine after update

MANTLE
== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 4
Physical Memory: 8580177920
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: Mantle
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 14910

Average FPS: 41.42
Average Unit Count: 4424
Maximum Unit Count: 5770
Average Batches/MS: 803.34
Maximum Batches/MS: 1890.77
Average Batch Count: 22346
Maximum Batch Count: 154854
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DIRECTX
== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 4
Physical Memory: 8580177920
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 9317

Average FPS: 25.88
Average Unit Count: 3931
Maximum Unit Count: 5426
Average Batches/MS: 423.36
Maximum Batches/MS: 920.23
Average Batch Count: 18261
Maximum Batch Count: 110471
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Really impressed by the performance's jump

 

[Zoot]

Impressive results.

Out of curiosity, does the benchmark still drop into single figure frames per second at points?

 

[Jinxxter]

Installed it yesterday afternoon and wasn't able to get it running.
I presume it's due to my 2P-config since I already had some problems with other games to get it running.
Solution there was to assign the cores manually so only one processor would be used but that doesn't work here.
I get the loading screen and on the display of my g19 afterburner shows gpu-usage for a few seconds but suddenly (and after the same time has passed each try) gpu-usage drops to 0 and I get stuck in the loading screen and have to use the task-manager to kill the process.
Given the fact that it's still early alpha I think I'll wait a bit.
Would have liked to see the results though...

 

[cooperman]

Here is my mantle run iam pretty impressed (my best DX run was 27fps)

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Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\coop\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_14_02_02_1129.txt
Version 1.00
02/02/2014 11:29
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
CPU: AuthenticAMD
AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
Physical Cores: 4
Logical Cores: 8
Physical Memory: 8502214656
Allocatable Memory: 8796092891136
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: Mantle
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 14722

Average FPS: 40.89
Average Unit Count: 4271
Maximum Unit Count: 5409
Average Batches/MS: 765.28
Maximum Batches/MS: 1964.05
Average Batch Count: 21678
Maximum Batch Count: 175383
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[BigDaddyKong]

Impressive results.

Out of curiosity, does the benchmark still drop into single figure frames per second at points?

If it did, it was so fast I did not notice it. But to be far, at six minutes, my attention may have drift while it ran. I think the lowest I seen was 19 in Mantle mode.

 

[Pogal_31]

Impressive results.

Out of curiosity, does the benchmark still drop into single figure frames per second at points?

Not with Mantle, the benchmark never went below 20 fps, when it goes 4 or 5 fps with DirectX, this is a very huge improvement for my old Phenom!

 

[Damien c]

This is mine after the update

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Oxide Games
Star Swarm Stress Test - ©2013
C:\Users\damien\Documents\Star Swarm\Output_14_02_02_1355.txt
Version 1.00
02/02/2014 13:55
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== Hardware Configuration =================================
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
CPU: GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
Physical Cores: 6
Logical Cores: 12
Physical Memory: 17117908992
Allocatable Memory: 140737488224256
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== Configuration ==========================================
API: DirectX
Scenario: ScenarioFollow.csv
User Input: Disabled
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen: True
GameCore Update: 16.6 ms
Bloom Quality: High
PointLight Quality: High
ToneCurve Quality: High
Glare Overdraw: 16
Shading Samples: 64
Shade Quality: Mid
Deferred Contexts: Disabled
Temporal AA Duration: 16
Temporal AA Time Slice: 2
Detailed Frame Info: Off
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== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 14319

Average FPS: 39.77
Average Unit Count: 4215
Maximum Unit Count: 5304
Average Batches/MS: 704.03
Maximum Batches/MS: 1776.97
Average Batch Count: 17913
Maximum Batch Count: 93819
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Just going to run it again and see how much of my cpu and gpus are actually being used.