A20.1 Trident benchmarks

[Naz]

Saw GPU jobs was added to a20.1 and with much excitement these are the results.

 

My Other 7DTD Benchmarks

 

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Alpha 20
A20.5 benchmarks
A20.1 Trident benchmarks

A20.0 2 systems benchmarks
Alpha 19

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A19 Various Performance Tweaks Benchmarked

A19.3>A19.4>A19.5 Hotbox Benchmarks

Resizable Bar Trident Benchmarks

A19 RTX 3090 Trident Benchmarks

A19.2 B3 Hotbox Benchmarks

A19.0 Benchmarks 2 Systems Intel,AMD,SLI,Core Count And SMT Tested

A15 Trident Benchmarks 

 

 

Benchmark Notes & Disclaimers

 

 

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1. These figures should be taken as ball park figures and not absolute values.
7DTD is a very difficult game to benchmark accurately. It's in alpha and sometimes does weird things. Also some things are difficult to account for such as the AI, they will behave differently and spawn differently every run, which leads to #2.

2. What's controlled for and what's not
I haven't controlled for driver versions & windows versions. My goal was just to get "close enough" results instead of 100% accurate as possible. That said i have controlled for memory leaks, restarting the game after every run. Time of day is reset from the console after every run. When changing resolution i changed ingame before shutting down then validated with the unity screen selector on next launch. No zombies/animals where killed so areas weren't "cleared" until x amount of days, to insure that on following runs they would respawn (Although i can't do much if zombies kill animals or vise versa etc). I only did 1 pass on each test, however any result that didn't look right or didn't make sense was discarded and retested.

 

3. 1 system isn't enough to draw definitive conclusions for every configuration. The conclusions found here may or may not apply to your own systems, these results are only really comparable if you have similar hardware. But they will however give an idea of where the current performance is at with the hardware that was tested.

 

4. It's Alpha

Any update could change any conclusions drawn from these tests. Also as a work in progress things are always improving and getting worse, by the time 7DTD goes gold these results with be obsolete and invalid. Things are always changing in alpha.

5. Tests on different resolutions were done on monitors native aspect ratio
16:9 Resolutions were tested on an Asus PB287Q 4K 3840x2160 60HZ Monitor
21:9 Resolution was tested on an LG 38GL950G 3840x1600 175Hz Monitor

 

6. The benchmark Run
I've been using the same run since A14 for all tests, you can find more details on the exact run in my a15 benchmarks i did ages ago Here

7. These results are without applies affinity and increased view distance.

 

 

Original benchmark excel and results files

 

System Tested

 

Trident

CPU	AMD R9 5950x
Motherboard	Gigabyte X570 Aorus Xtreme
Ram	G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3600Mhz CL16-19-19-39
Storage 1 Save Data	1TB Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe 4 M.2 SSD
Storage 2 Game Data	2TB Sabrent Rocket NVMe PCIe 4 M.2 SSD
GPU	MSI Suprim X RTX 3090 24GB

 

System Overclock Notes

 

CPU: PBO2 OC
EDC:230 TDC:130 PPT:1300
Curve voltage offset
Best Cores: -15 (4 cores) Other 12 cores -30

Boost Override: +125Mhz

Ram: Stock: Default JEDEC(2133Mhz) , Overclock: XMP Enabled (3600Mhz)    
GPU Core:+160 Mem:+550      
GPU Bios Flashed with a 500 Watt Power Target   

 

Tested With 2 Video Settings

*Settings 1 & 2 were both the same for Ultra and Lower Settings

"Ultra Settings"

"Settings 1"

"Settings 2"

"Lower Settings"

 

Trident Benchmarks

I've retested a20.0 without applied affinity and increased view distance to get more "real world" results.

 

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A20.1 VS A20.0 Ultra Settings

 

A20.1 VS A20.0 Lower Settings

 

 

 

Conclusions

Overall The difference is much improved not necessarily game changing, but the results are still pretty damm impressive nevertheless. GPU Jobs seems to work it's magic best in CPU Bound scenario's, you can see from the 4k results there was little to no improvement. Given 7DTD is a predominantly CPU bound game this change will benefit most people. If we look at 1440p gpu utilization for both tests it's getting very close to becoming gpu bound which is really good. Nvidia deems the 3090 an 8k capable card, so the fact 7DTD is now able to make nearly full use of it is amazing news for those with high refresh rate 1440p displays. Even 1080p sees 60% usage so if you had a 3060 or 3070 on paper i would guess you would now get full utilisation at 1080p.

 

The issues with stuttering still remain however and 0.1% lows are either unchanged, slight worse, or slight better. 0.1% lows have a really high margin of error test to test even a swing of+/-15% is pretty common from my experience. Unfortunately there have been reports of crashes and GPU Jobs will likely be disabled again in the next exp update based on what the devs have said. So enjoy it while you can and keep in mind if you have crashes file a bug report and if you haven't experienced any you can always enable this feature easily as long as you don't play on an EAC server as the change isn't compatible with it.

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by Naz (see edit history)