3d Mark mystery

Greetings all.

Had my AW17 for about 2 weeks now. Great machine, very impressed.

I have been gaming with no problems, but yesterday, I decided to start getting 'hard data' on temps/clocks, etc.

I ran the 3d Mark benchmarks and had a few questions about my results.

I am only pulling 4400 on Fire Strike.

I have a 4900, 780M, 16GB, Win8.1, 256GB mSATA + 750GB HDD

A05 BIOS, stock vbios, power mode set to 'performance', NVidia 331.82

All of my games runs smooth with high/ultra settings. Bioshock Infinite benchmark gives me in the mid range of results at Ultra (from Notebook check).

Any ideas why my 3d Marks would be so low?

I ran HWInfo64 and my GPU clocks are maxing at 849MHz and temps only hit 74C, so I don't think it's throttling. Do I need to worry about synthetic benchmarks if the games run fine?

Thanks in advance.

BTW - 3DMark 11 is 6300.

 

Here are my tests with 3d mark if you want to compare :

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...7-4900mq-gtx780m-benchmark-optimizations.html

 

Re-ran the tests after flashing with the vbios but keeping the clocks stock.

Wow.

Fire strike up to 5218 (from 4398) 16% increase.

3D Mark 11 - 6300 up to 7523, 19% increase.

Dell has really given us a conservative bios, huh?

 

:S really....only 4400? my 7970m just pulled 4481 on firestrike :S , I would not have expected that from the 780m

 

Me, either. Which is why I figured something had to be going on. It appears to be fixed now.

 

Seems like your problem is resolved but you might also want to check that 3Dmark is on version 1.1. I was stuck at +-5700 with 1.0 until I installed the newer version.

 

Glad it has been fixed, enjoy full unlocked power of aw

 

I had my buddy test his Sager with the 780m just for comparison, it pulled 5100.

 

Thanks for sharing the results. It seems like it gets a little less than ours.

 

Update. I had to revert to the stock vbios.

My graphics would only initialize after a reboot or shut down about half the time with the 3rd party vbios.

 

I have ran 3dmark on my new 17 a few times now and i see what you mean heh....on the new Nvidia beta drivers I was pulling 4400 on Firestrike but after reverting to the 331.82 my scores have improved to around 4750.

4900 when I went to 331.65....at this rate I should just drop to drivers from like 6 years ago...then I can pull Titan level scores.

 

Jus to add on, i hope i am not hijacking this thread. I upgraded to the new GPU drivers, 331.93

my 3d Mark scores are

ice storm 86002
cloud gate 16179
fire strike 4003

I am running stock clocks on my 680M. This is too low right ??