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Unigine provides an interesting way to test hardware. It can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. A lot of their customers claim that they have never seen such extremely-effective code, which is so easy to understand.
Heaven Benchmark is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on advanced Unigine engine from Unigine Corp. It reveals the enchanting magic of floating islands with a tiny village hidden in the cloudy skies. Interactive mode provides emerging experience of exploring the intricate world of steampunk.
Efficient and well-architected framework makes Unigine highly scalable:
- Multiple API (DirectX 9 / DirectX 10 / DirectX 11 / OpenGL) render
- Cross-platform: MS Windows (XP, Vista, Windows 7) / Linux
- Full support of 32bit and 64bit systems
- Multicore CPU support
- Little / big endian support (ready for game consoles)
- Powerful C++ API
- Comprehensive performance profiling system
- Flexible XML-based data structures
We use the following settings: 1920×1080 resolution. Anti Aliasing: off. Anisotrophy: 4, Tessellation: Normal. Shaders: High. Stereo 3D: Disabled. API: Direct X 11.
Unigine's Heaven benchmark shows more of the same; Sapphire's 1GB 7850 is slightly faster than HIS' 2GB version, albeit by just 1.3%.
The performance deficit of HIS' overclocked 7770 GHz Edition increases to 9.7%, in comparison to the Radeon HD 6870.
Thats a nice looking Sapphire board, great price too.
I have a single fan Sapphire HD7850 and its excellent, this would be wicked. Might try and sell mine on ebay and pick this up at that price, before it rises