Street Fighter IV & Resident Evil 5 (PC!) dated

SCORE: 11416
AVERAGE: 149.00FPS
OS: Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
Memory: 8190MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Display Setting: 1920x1080 60Hz 8xAA

Crossfire HD4850

 

Try with no AA.

 

Without AA

SCORE: 21886
AVERAGE: 231.04FPS
OS: Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
Memory: 8190MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Display Setting: 1920x1080 60Hz

 

Thanks. Almost the same as for me, almost double the score.

 

Interesting. And poop had to rerun all benchs. Running prototype in the background lowered average FPS by about 22-25.

OS: Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Memory: 8190MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4890 (default clocks)

All runs were with all settings at higheast values.

1920x1200 0xAA 0xAF Windowed
SCORE: 12796
AVERAGE: 135.99FPS

1920x1200 0xAA 16xAF Windowed
SCORE: 12805
AVERAGE: 136.14FPS

1920x1200 0xAA 16xAF Fullscreen
SCORE: 13066
AVERAGE: 140.13FPS

1920x1200 8xAA 16xAF Windowed
SCORE: 7953
AVERAGE: 100.39FPS

1920x1200 8xAA 16xAF Fullscreen
SCORE: 7514
AVERAGE: 91.54FPS

2560x1600 0xAA 16xAF Windowed
SCORE: 8012
AVERAGE: 116.65FPS

2560x1600 0xAA 16xAF Fullscreen
SCORE: 8512
AVERAGE: 127.66FPS

2560x1600 8xAA 16xAF Windowed
SCORE: 5208
AVERAGE: 91.17FPS

2560x1600 8xAA 16xAF Fullscreen
SCORE: 4915
AVERAGE: 82.68FPS

Notes: AF doesn't seem to impact framerates. In fact turning off texture filtering consistently slowed down the system by about 0.5-0.9 FPS. Not sure what's going on there. So didn't bother posting any other scores with texture filtering off.

Interesting: 4xAA is only about 1-3 FPS faster than 8xAA depending on resolution. So again didn't bother posting those scores.

Odd happenings: With 0xAA I get more FPS fullscreen. With 8xAA I get more FPS Windowed. This happens across all resolutions. What the heck?

More oddities: Screen tear is MUCH worse fullscreen than it is windowed with vsync off.

Thoughts: I get the feeling I'm more CPU limited than GPU limited. If I get the time I may overclock my CPU to 4.0 Ghz and see how the numbers change.

[EDIT] - Looking at Sinistar's post confirms what I felt, the benchmark is WAY more CPU limited than GPU limited. And takes advantage of more cores.

Final Thoughts: At least on Radeon 4890. You're better off running in a window if you play with AA. Then again, with Vsync on, it's not going to matter one way or another. I couldn't find a way to drop FPS below 60. As you can see 82-83 FPS was as close as I could get.

sonix666: Did you turn off vsync and have framerate variable for benching?

Regards,
SB

 

for the fun of it, I just over clocked to 3 Ghz a 12% increase but only saw a 4% increase in score and 5% in frame rate.

 

Interesting so maybe more a case of multiple cores than just pure CPU speed?

Regards,
SB

 

strange I get zero screen tear

 

Interestingly, I get higher framerates (by a decent sized margin) by setting AA, AF and vsync through the control panelrather than in game. I'm not sure which setting is having the effect but clearly the games implementation of one isn't as efficient as NV's drivers.

Its over a 10% in performance.

 

Yeah, I don't think jaggies were that big of a problem for this game as well. I guess I might be able to get console's performance by toning down some effects, reducing resolutions, and turning off AA, but I'm too lazy to play around with the settings now.

 

You guys are blind.

Jaggies were driving me bonkers without the AA enabled. Only time I didn't notice them "that much" with 0xAA was when the benchmark was going at over 130 fps and I could barely focuse on anything. Was still quite annoying even then on the hanger level where Cammy was fighting that other girl however, even at insane rendering speed.

Regards,
SB

 

Interesting note, setting the graphics to minimum without a draw style and with the background enabled (it's not rendered at low setting, but is with high) and the game actually looks like the original 2D one since it of course lacked all the cell shading present at higher settings in SF4. Very interesting to watch.

Anyone have any ideas what the equivalent console settings would be? Always fun to compare multiplatform title performance across the board. Also I must note how ROP dependent the game is. Going from max settings at 1280 x 800 with no AA to 2x AA killed my framerate from ~80 FPS to about ~50 FPS. Changing the resolution brought about drastic changes too. I guess it's from insane amount of texture details in the characters and environment forcing the ROPs to work harder.......

Either way, it's a very well made benchmark, and I hope it becomes a regular in computer/graphics card benching. The varied render styles are a nice feature too (don't know if the console versions have this), reminds me of the various render modes in the original Far Cry. Cartoon FTW!

I wish someone would tickle my senses with some benchmarks using low end Shader Model 3.0 GPUs. Be interesting to see how they put out, especially at lower settings and resolutions. Either way, I think Capcom has a real winner here on the requirements scale, hope it sells well, since the requirements are not that high by today's standards, and anyone with a Radeon HD 3200 bare minimum should have a good experience with SF4.

 

Agreed. As far as i'm aware they didn't change anything for the PC version apart from adding the different rendering styles so max settings on the PC at 720p is potentially comparable to the console versions. Unless anyone knows differently?

Yeah I noticed a huge drop in framerate when going from 1360x768 to 1680x1050. Not sure its a ROP issue though since the consoles are already massively ROP limited compared to PC's. I'm wondering if there is something about the game thats simply highly optimised for 720p (and similar resolutions) because of their console roots.

Yeah its a great benchmark. Unfortunatly (kind of) performance is so high that I doubt it will make it into many review suites. And yeah the render styles are PC only.

 

PC version has improvements over console version.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,685997/Street-Fighter-IV-PC-explained-in-detail/News/

 

Cheers man. I'm only seeing the soft shadow setting thats different though, I didn't read the whole thing though, i'm way to drunk for that!

 

I have a very modest PC, and I can't believe how insanely fast the game runs with v-sync turned off!

At first, I had it off, and I got around 80 FPS at 720p 2x AA and 16 X AF with my 8800GS. I noticed there's a lot of screen tearing during the fighter gathering part of the demo, so I turned on v-sync and ran it again. I had a respectable 59 fps, but HOLY CRAP, the game practically felt like it was running in slow-mo compared to v-sync off. Normally, I thought games with over 60 fps made no real difference, but for SF4, it was like playing Street Fighter 2 Turbo vs regular SF2.

I don't give a crap about screen tearing now. Besides, it only happened during a non-gameplay section of the benchmark. I want Street Fighter 2 Turbo speed, baby!!!

 

hah and I who tought 60fps was fast enough. Disabling vsync and giving me beyond 100fps it is like fast forwarding a movie at high speed! Get all dizzy!

 

You should see SF2 Turbo with 10 star setting! Ok, so that's actually unplayable, but v-sync off really looks and felt like the right speed for Street Fighter. Then again, you have 20 frame more than me. Maybe it'll run even faster. That would be insane.

This is honestly the only game I've ever seen where beyond 60 fps had any meaning.

 

No AA, texture filter off.
SCORE: 23234
AVERAGE: 245.49FPS
OS: Windows XP Professional
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 3.2 GHz
Memory: 3064MB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz

I seem to be CPU limited here and on my system (at least according to Process Explorer) it only uses two cores.

 

default settings:

CPU 2.66

SCORE: 27821
AVERAGE: 266.63FPS
OS: Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
Memory: 8190MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz

CPU 3.2

SCORE: 31646
AVERAGE: 311.53FPS
OS: Windows Vista(TM) Ultimate
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
Memory: 8190MB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Display Setting: 640x480 60Hz