I have an issue that is just driving me nuts at the moment. You can see in my sig what my system is, and I will say that the CPU is overclocked to 4.6 and 2400 frequency on the NB, and the GPU is overclocked to 1220 on the core and 1350 on the mem. I'm fairly certain my CPU OC is stable, and I know that my GPU overclock is stable (I messed with it a ton, particularly the memory due to the fact that unstable memory overclocks on AMD cards tend to not cause you to crash, but instead lose FPS because it resends data).
With that out of the way I recently benchmarked my computer with Heaven DX11 after updating to the 12.8 drivers and updating my bios to the most recent release. When I did this, I accidentally reset my CPU overclock to 4.2, and I benched it AT 4.2. This is with Heaven running full screen, with high shaders, x4 AA, normal tess, and 2048 x 1152 resolution. I also ran the test 4 times back to back and the scores were broadly similar:
Min FPS: between 7.1 and 8.1
Max FPS: between 115 and 121
Avg FPS: between 48 and 53
Score around 1220 to 1228
Fair enough I guess, my score is largely killed by the minimum FPS due to Bulldozer not being able to hack it. Ok fine. So I overclocked my CPU back to 4.6 ghz and 2400 on the NB, with the same GPU overclock listed above; made sure it was stable and then ran Heaven 5 more times after the CPU overclock. I should also say that my GPU never gets hotter than 64 during Heaven, and my CPU never goes above 49.
The results? Almost IDENTICAL to the ones above. I think I gained a tad because the average FPS was 2 fps higher, but the min and max stayed roughly the same.
????
How the HELL does going from 4.2 to 4.6 on my CPU give me the SAME score? No increase at all, really? Especially on the minimum FPS, which as I understand it heavily depends on your CPUs ability to get the benchmark running up to speed when you first start it?
Can anyone explain this to me? It's getting really depressing to see people with similar systems to mine getting higher scores. It seems like people with my exact system with lower overclocks on the GPU, but even with a stock i5 2500k are getting up to 500 points more than I am. I realize that's just because Bulldozer is
compared to Sandy Bridge. But how come going from 4.2 to 4.6 saw NO gain? Makes me feel like I put in tons of work and extra stress on my CPU for NO reason. I realize that a lot of people take benchmarks with a grain of salt, but still.
With that out of the way I recently benchmarked my computer with Heaven DX11 after updating to the 12.8 drivers and updating my bios to the most recent release. When I did this, I accidentally reset my CPU overclock to 4.2, and I benched it AT 4.2. This is with Heaven running full screen, with high shaders, x4 AA, normal tess, and 2048 x 1152 resolution. I also ran the test 4 times back to back and the scores were broadly similar:
Min FPS: between 7.1 and 8.1
Max FPS: between 115 and 121
Avg FPS: between 48 and 53
Score around 1220 to 1228
Fair enough I guess, my score is largely killed by the minimum FPS due to Bulldozer not being able to hack it. Ok fine. So I overclocked my CPU back to 4.6 ghz and 2400 on the NB, with the same GPU overclock listed above; made sure it was stable and then ran Heaven 5 more times after the CPU overclock. I should also say that my GPU never gets hotter than 64 during Heaven, and my CPU never goes above 49.
The results? Almost IDENTICAL to the ones above. I think I gained a tad because the average FPS was 2 fps higher, but the min and max stayed roughly the same.
????
How the HELL does going from 4.2 to 4.6 on my CPU give me the SAME score? No increase at all, really? Especially on the minimum FPS, which as I understand it heavily depends on your CPUs ability to get the benchmark running up to speed when you first start it?
Can anyone explain this to me? It's getting really depressing to see people with similar systems to mine getting higher scores. It seems like people with my exact system with lower overclocks on the GPU, but even with a stock i5 2500k are getting up to 500 points more than I am. I realize that's just because Bulldozer is
compared to Sandy Bridge. But how come going from 4.2 to 4.6 saw NO gain? Makes me feel like I put in tons of work and extra stress on my CPU for NO reason. I realize that a lot of people take benchmarks with a grain of salt, but still.
But, I have no frame of reference so. I didn't and don't expect my computer to be a heavyweight or anything, but these scores seem really crappy even still.
