- Joined
- Jan 29, 2003
Long time no see. Guess I've been working way too hard and lost track of the years...
I recently realized that my rig is nearing the 4 year mark and just not playing the latest games as smoothly as it used to. Not having the money for a full rebuild right now, I decided my best bet was to grab a 5770 since they are so cheap, cool, quiet and fast to replace my X1800XT 512MB.
I ran the full 3DMark06 suite with each test looping 3 times on my old card just before swapping and on my new card after installing the latest drivers and making sure everything was kosher. I ran both after a fresh boot with all my usual background apps shut down.
Unfortunately, the performance of the new card is very disappointing. I realize that my older CPU and RAM is holding me back somewhat, so that's why I ran the full suite and setup a spreadsheet to compare the results, so I could focus on the GPU tests. However, looking at the comparison (and looking at all the 5770 results in ORB) I'm starting to think maybe there is something wrong. In one test, the 5770 actually scored lower than the x1800!
I was running an old version of Catalyst from Feb of this year before putting in the new card and updating, so I'm wondering if maybe something from the old drivers is lingering. I'm going to do a full driver cleanup in safe mode and try reinstalling the latest catalyst, but in case that doesn't work, I'm looking for other ideas of things to try. I've already been through the BIOS and didn't see any PCI-E related stuff that could be the culprit. I also ran CPU-z and GPU-z to make sure that the PCI-E slot was running at full x16 speed and everything there looks correct as well.
Any ideas?
Here are some of the results:
Thanks.
I recently realized that my rig is nearing the 4 year mark and just not playing the latest games as smoothly as it used to. Not having the money for a full rebuild right now, I decided my best bet was to grab a 5770 since they are so cheap, cool, quiet and fast to replace my X1800XT 512MB.
I ran the full 3DMark06 suite with each test looping 3 times on my old card just before swapping and on my new card after installing the latest drivers and making sure everything was kosher. I ran both after a fresh boot with all my usual background apps shut down.
Unfortunately, the performance of the new card is very disappointing. I realize that my older CPU and RAM is holding me back somewhat, so that's why I ran the full suite and setup a spreadsheet to compare the results, so I could focus on the GPU tests. However, looking at the comparison (and looking at all the 5770 results in ORB) I'm starting to think maybe there is something wrong. In one test, the 5770 actually scored lower than the x1800!
I was running an old version of Catalyst from Feb of this year before putting in the new card and updating, so I'm wondering if maybe something from the old drivers is lingering. I'm going to do a full driver cleanup in safe mode and try reinstalling the latest catalyst, but in case that doesn't work, I'm looking for other ideas of things to try. I've already been through the BIOS and didn't see any PCI-E related stuff that could be the culprit. I also ran CPU-z and GPU-z to make sure that the PCI-E slot was running at full x16 speed and everything there looks correct as well.
Any ideas?
Here are some of the results:
Code:
3DMarkTest Name Old Card New Card Change
3DMark Score 4315 7583 1.76x
SM2.0 Score 1813 3246 1.79x
HDR/SM3.0 1827 4534 2.48x
CPU Score 1334 1349 1.01x
Proxycon 13.961 26.469 1.90x
Firefly Forest 16.258 27.633 1.70x
Canyon Flight 17.846 56.367 3.16x
Deep Freeze 18.692 34.313 1.84x
Fill Rate – Single 4860.736 8072.497 1.66x
Fill Rate – Multi 9843.802 33161.922 3.37x
Pixel Shader 158.758 849.000 5.35x
Vertex – Simple 171.926 393.425 2.29x
Vertex – Complex 56.088 228.611 4.08x
Shader Particles 0.000 171.976 N/A
Perlin Noise(SM3.0) 30.852 446.071 [COLOR=Blue]14.46x[/COLOR]
8 Triangles 5.746 5.562 [COLOR=Red]0.97x[/COLOR]
32 Triangles 19.949 22.298 [COLOR=Red]1.12x[/COLOR]
128 Triangles 79.411 90.070 [COLOR=Red]1.13x[/COLOR]
512 Triangles 163.640 362.074 2.21x
2048 Triangles 221.815 442.230 1.99x
32768 Triangles 220.081 446.888 2.03x