UL Plans 3DMARK Port Royal Extreme Benchmark to Make GPUs Bleed

[WYP]

Making DXR Ray Tracing Even More Demanding!



Read more about UL Benchmark's planned "Extreme" version of 3DMARK Port Royal.

 

[NeverBackDown]

10fps here we come!

 

[Warchild]

10fps here we come!

Is this optimistic friday?

I expect 1980s stop motion special effects!

 

[Piskeante]

this actually means that this test will make the gpu use as much power as possible, making the test UNREALISTICALLY powerfull.

Never seen , playing a game, more than 200W from my RX 580 heavily oced. Fire strike extreme pushes almost 225W. So, it will make some oced gpus crash, when they could be perfectly fine on daily activity and gaming.

But, the good part of it,is that you´ll know for sure that , if your gpus passes the test, your gpu has rock solid oc.

 

[Kaapstad]

10fps here we come!

Speak for yourself.

 

[WYP]

Speak for yourself.

I'm convinced that they are only making this test because you scored over 9,000 on a single graphics card.

 

[Kaapstad]

Port Royal Custom Run @4k

All settings the same as the standard Port Royal but with the resolution raised to 2160p.

NVIDIA Titan RTX(2x) @2055/4100

Intel Core i7-6950X Processor @4.4

Graphics Score 8 416

Drivers 417.71

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/22841

 

[Dicehunter]

Port Royal Custom Run @4k

All settings the same as the standard Port Royal but with the resolution raised to 2160p.

NVIDIA Titan RTX(2x) @2055/4100

Intel Core i7-6950X Processor @4.4

Graphics Score 8 416

Drivers 417.71

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/22841

Surprised you're running the 6950X with those 2 x RTX Titans and not the 9980XE.

 

[Kaapstad]

Surprised you're running the 6950X with those 2 x RTX Titans and not the 9980XE.

I use the cards for gaming on that PC.

 

[Emu]

My completely stock Gigabyte 2080 ti Gaming OC gets an average of 37.43 fps. A pair of Titan RTX overclocked to 2.2GHz gets 88.7 fps. If this is the performance of the first generation of DXR supporting cards then we really need better tests otherwise we are going to be hitting the 100s of fps in the regular Port Royal benchmark in the second generation of DXR cards lol

 

[Kaapstad]

My completely stock Gigabyte 2080 ti Gaming OC gets an average of 37.43 fps. A pair of Titan RTX overclocked to 2.2GHz gets 88.7 fps. If this is the performance of the first generation of DXR supporting cards then we really need better tests otherwise we are going to be hitting the 100s of fps in the regular Port Royal benchmark in the second generation of DXR cards lol

Next gen of DXR supporting cards will likely hit about 50fps on the standard test.


The test does look nice though when you are getting over 80fps as the effects look a lot smoother.

 

[Warchild]

Next gen of DXR supporting cards will likely hit about 50fps on the standard test.


The test does look nice though when you are getting over 80fps as the effects look a lot smoother.

So what is your opinion on NVlink? is it hit or miss?
I have always gone with a 2 card setup but can we conclude that multi card support has been given a fresh breath of life with NVlink or is it still uninteresting for devs etc?

 

[grec]

I'm pretty sure Port Royal (Along with everything else) only uses the traditional SLI-over-NVLink layer. Given NVLink is for the time being limited to 3 £750+ cards, and that's it's not really expected to "trickle down" in future generations because they'd never put this on the lower end the lower end Quadro's it's leftover from(And they have a precedent now of keeping SLI off lower end gaming cards too), and that multi-GPU setups have lost a lot of popularity amongst gamers & therefore developers, I doubt we'll see any unique uses of NVlink outside of games that already have custom non-AFR based mGPU solutions. Maybe as DX12 & Vulkan as well as mGPU libraries for them matures in the future there will be more leverage but I think in the reasonable expected lifetime of these cards it will pretty much always just be running in SLI mode.

 

[Kaapstad]

So what is your opinion on NVlink? is it hit or miss?
I have always gone with a 2 card setup but can we conclude that multi card support has been given a fresh breath of life with NVlink or is it still uninteresting for devs etc?

It is still the same old SLI running on NVLink.

Unfortunately until we see game devs making more effort to support DX12 mGPU things are not going to get any better.

Best place to look for where mGPU is going is AMD and NVidia themselves, it has been a while since either of them have produced a dual card which says it all. The hardware vendors will only produce cards they think there will be a market for and with DX12 mGPU they need the game devs to step up, something that is not going to happen.