Help m eunderstand 3DMark score.

jimmers · Oct 12, 2008

I had 2 3850's in CF with my same rig and got a 3DMark score of about 16k. Now since I've replaced the 3850's withy a 4870 my score has gone down to about 14k. What gives? The performance is clearly better in games, but why so bad in the benchmarks? I figured my benchmark would of went way up.

hajalie24 · Oct 12, 2008

maybe clear your old drivers? reinstall?

jimmers · Oct 12, 2008

I cleared the old drivers. I've tried different versions of drivers including the new 8.10, but I still can't come close to my old score.

hajalie24 · Oct 12, 2008

that's weird, i get almost 13k with a 4850, something's now right. maybe a fresh install of windows?

A15G · Oct 12, 2008

Reformat

and use disksweeper.

Sgt_Pinto · Oct 12, 2008

first of all its a benchmark, not the be all and end all.

Secondly if you know your games are preforming better than wahts the matter?

e-penis not large enough?

jimmers · Oct 12, 2008

Sgt_Pinto said:
first of all its a benchmark, not the be all and end all.

Secondly if you know your games are preforming better than wahts the matter?

e-penis not large enough?

lol, I just like to see where I'm at. I'd hate to reinstall windows.

jimmers · Oct 13, 2008

Well I just reinstalled windows but I get the same score. Does a crossfire setup get better scores in 3DMark?

Bon3thugz43v3r · Oct 13, 2008

jimmers said:
Well I just reinstalled windows but I get the same score. Does a crossfire setup get better scores in 3DMark?

Your crossfire setup may perform better in multi gpu apps, but not in the single gpu apps.

jimmers · Oct 13, 2008

Bon3thugz43v3r said:
Your crossfire setup may perform better in multi gpu apps, but not in the single gpu apps.

3DMark is a multi gpu app? I never would of figured since its older.

Bon3thugz43v3r · Oct 13, 2008

jimmers said:
3DMark is a multi gpu app? I never would of figured since its older.

If you are using 3dmark06 then yes it supports it.

jimmers · Oct 13, 2008

Bon3thugz43v3r said:
If you are using 3dmark06 then yes it supports it.

I am using 3DMark06. I figured my score would of went way up with the new card.

JamesXP · Oct 13, 2008

Ideally, you need a much higher clocked processor to keep up with the 4870.

Bon3thugz43v3r · Oct 13, 2008

JamesXP said:
Ideally, you need a much higher clocked processor to keep up with the 4870.

This is false. I notice minimal point increases when going from 3.0ghz to 4.0ghz with my e8400 and my hd4870. In 3dmark06 were talking from 14.5k to 15.5k and then after overclocking the card I can push over 16k. 3.0Ghz runs this card perfectly well.

El<(')>Maxi · Oct 13, 2008

jimmers said:
Does a crossfire setup get better scores in 3DMark?

Yes even on the older gen cards.

You can search the DB over here for more results on the same hardware with similar clocks.

hwbot.org

Spawn-Inc · Oct 13, 2008

what is your q6600 clocked at when your doing your 3dmark runs? my score is 17k and i have a single 9800GTX, i just want to compare them and see if its my cpu score helping or the video card.

jimmers · Oct 13, 2008

Spawn-Inc said:
what is your q6600 clocked at when your doing your 3dmark runs? my score is 17k and i have a single 9800GTX, i just want to compare them and see if its my cpu score helping or the video card.

My Q6600 is running at 3.3ghz when I do the benchmark. 365x9.

1Kurgan1 · Oct 14, 2008

You had 2x 3850's and judging by your CPU I would say you OC'd the 3850's also. Honestly don't think a stock 4870 will break their numbers.

jimmers · Oct 14, 2008

1Kurgan1 said:
You had 2x 3850's and judging by your CPU I would say you OC'd the 3850's also. Honestly don't think a stock 4870 will break their numbers.

The 3850's were OC'd a bit. The 4870 smokes the CF 3850's in all games, so I figured my benchmark would go up.

1Kurgan1 · Oct 14, 2008

jimmers said:
The 3850's were OC'd a bit. The 4870 smokes the CF 3850's in all games, so I figured my benchmark would go up.

Alot of current games don't use Crossfire. A single card score of 14k is pretty good. Tomorrow or the next day my Asus 4850 Top is here and I will be aiming for a 790mhz GPU OC the day I get it. My setup in sig like said was 15,477 so very close to what you were at, I will let you know my results. But I'm willing to bet it will probably be a bit under what my current score is. 14.5k for a single card and I would be quiet happy so hopefully I can get that.

**edit** Also is your 4870 clocked up? And if you really wanna see how the 4870 fairs against the 3850's get Vantage and give both setups a run at that. 3D06 is very CPU intensive. With my CPU and 3870's at stock clocks I only hit like 11.5k in 3D06. I then cranked up the processor to 3.22Ghz and I hit something like 14.9k, Ramping up the 3870's from 775mhz core to 876mhz only netted me that additional 500 or so points.

So if you really want to measure the gfx power get Vantage and watch the GPU score, should give you a much better idea of how close they are. I bet the Vantage scores will be decently close (under 1k points diff).

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