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    580m vs 6990 benchmarks

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by james_2k, Jul 29, 2011.

  1. ewitte12

    ewitte12 Notebook Evangelist

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    Edit NVM I see its Nvidia.

    MrMM depends. IE 850 seems fine for DX10.x benches but for heavy DX11 clocks need to go down about 20Mhz.
     
    ewitte12, Aug 6, 2011
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  2. qohelet

    qohelet Senior Member

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    wow! nvidia cards are better than amd in OC? :(
     
    qohelet, Aug 6, 2011
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  3. DeeX

    DeeX THz

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    I cant wait to get my 580m :D
     
    DeeX, Aug 6, 2011
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  4. ewitte12

    ewitte12 Notebook Evangelist

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    But look at the front page scores are not that much ahead max OC versus max OC. Only thing I don't like is lack of physx but I'm trying to deal with it. It would have cost at least 300 more. It may be moot when physx 3.0 comes out the only reason software mode sucks now is because thats the way Nvidia designed it.
     
    ewitte12, Aug 6, 2011
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  5. james_2k

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    120 hz :D
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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  6. ewitte12

    ewitte12 Notebook Evangelist

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    Its a slightly better panel as well but then we would have been talking about a $450 difference ;) If I wanted to spend more probably would have went m18x. As it is I spent about $2700 (with SSD, memory, etc) on a $1500 budget!
     
    ewitte12, Aug 6, 2011
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  7. james_2k

    james_2k Notebook Evangelist

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    yeah but games running at over 100 look different on the 120hz display compared to a 60. its awesome :)

    eg dragon age looks immense
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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  8. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Well I got around 25%, and CPU frequency will have little impact in most games even if it is 50%.

    I'd take a 10% GPU overclock over a 50% CPU overclock.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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  9. DGDXGDG

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    so
    [email protected] can oc little higher then stock [email protected]
    but [email protected] cant even reach stock [email protected]

    btw anyone here got the 580m circuit diagram?
    want try adding variable resistor to up voltage but searching a working laptop gpu with multimeter is impossible :( :mad:
     
    DGDXGDG, Aug 6, 2011
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  10. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Well actually most GTX560ti cards are sold at higher than "stock" speeds, so the GPUs are underclocked at stock really. They are just scraping more yields.

    Then you take into account that once overvolted and overclocked, even at a lower voltage the 580M is going to be sucking one hell of a lot of power....

    It just comes down to chip design and transistor choices etc.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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  11. inap

    inap .........................

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    deleted................
     
    inap, Aug 6, 2011
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  12. qohelet

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    You guys are squezzing this gpu to the max!lol. Very nice scores :)
     
    qohelet, Aug 6, 2011
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  13. james_2k

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    updating .
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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    I think that its a fact that most Nvidia Cards clock really well.Better than Amd ones...But on the 6990 model its really cool that a 200 Euro cheaper card performs better.Great Value for money
     
    amethyst0s, Aug 6, 2011
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  15. ichime

    ichime Notebook Elder

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    The 6990M can't overvolt at all. Anything higher can 1.1v would either cause a BSOD or will just clock back to 1.1v.
     
    ichime, Aug 6, 2011
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  16. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Now that james_2k has solved his throttling issues (minus the 3D as a compromise) I shall look forward to seeing the 0.92v benchmarks :D
     
    widezu69, Aug 6, 2011
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  17. james_2k

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    the 840 run was with the volt mod bios :)

    but i havent played around that much yet
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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  18. The Revelator

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    Here you go James_2k.

    [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
    The Revelator, Aug 6, 2011
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  19. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    james_2k where are the benchies?
     
    widezu69, Aug 6, 2011
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    updated for Revel, this is turning out to be hard work :p

    im busier installing and optimising stuff rather than benching. but ill get there :)

    lets add some game benchmarks here.. if anyone runs some let me know and ill add it.
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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  21. ewitte12

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    Don't see my Vantage on the list ;)
     
    ewitte12, Aug 6, 2011
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  22. james_2k

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    post it again would you :p
     
    james_2k, Aug 6, 2011
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  23. Lanscaper

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    You missed me too James :)
     
    Lanscaper, Aug 6, 2011
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    Missed my 560m scores too lol. I'll grab them in a sec.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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  25. ewitte12

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    ewitte12, Aug 6, 2011
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    3dmark 11 (stock MSI turbo 813/1626/1250)

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i3-2310M Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P2127 3DMarks

    P2127 (2019)

    3dmark 11 (925/1850/1825)

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i3-2310M Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P2421 3DMarks

    P2421 (2334)

    3dmark vantage (stock MSI turbo 813/1626/1250)

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i3-2310M Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P7916 3DMarks

    P7916 (8302)

    3dmark vantage (900/1800/1800)

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i3-2310M Processor,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-16F2 score: P8872 3DMarks

    P8872 (9707)
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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  27. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    That CPU score is awful but I guess it is an i3 however, the highlight is that 560m GPU score. Almost 10k, nice!
     
    widezu69, Aug 6, 2011
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  28. Meaker@Sager

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    Haha I know lol, can't afford a quad yet ^-^ But it's all set up to improve fairly easily now.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 6, 2011
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  29. TostitoBandito

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    TostitoBandito, Aug 7, 2011
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  30. johnnyman27

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    guys when i use trixx to overclock my 6970m volt stayed at 1.10 at idle..i must go to catalyst center and press default button in overdrive to reset it to 0.900..anyone have this problem???
     
    johnnyman27, Aug 7, 2011
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  31. james_2k

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    updated, sorry meaker but m17r3s only trying to level the field as far as possible :(
     
    james_2k, Aug 7, 2011
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    here is mine 3Dmark11 score with 6970m.overclock 850 1050!!!

    [​IMG]
     
    johnnyman27, Aug 7, 2011
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  33. james_2k

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    m17r3 only :p
     
    james_2k, Aug 7, 2011
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  34. johnnyman27

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    oh sorry just want to share my score..... :confused:
     
    johnnyman27, Aug 7, 2011
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  35. james_2k

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    added mafia 2 section
     
    james_2k, Aug 7, 2011
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  36. Meaker@Sager

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    Your choice, but even on desktops motherboard performance variation is below the variation caused between runs lol.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Aug 7, 2011
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  37. ewitte12

    ewitte12 Notebook Evangelist

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    Tips for 3dm11 on ATI? I get like 3500 at stock and barely close to 4000 full out. It has to be some kind of driver setting. Just changed everything to "use application settings."

    Going to wait for Monday when I'm in a cold room to post the next scores. Hopefully can IC diamond by then as well :)
     
    ewitte12, Aug 7, 2011
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    The Revelator, Aug 7, 2011
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  39. qohelet

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    Pretty desktop you got here :) how did you do this? :)
     
    qohelet, Aug 7, 2011
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  40. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    I'm waiting for someone to utilize the overvolted vbios and run it at 560 Ti clocks (822/2004) *hint* james_2k :D
     
    widezu69, Aug 7, 2011
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    johnnyman27, Aug 7, 2011
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    is this in CF?
     
    Stealth55, Aug 7, 2011
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    No it's a single card system
     
    EtownsFinest, Aug 7, 2011
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    sorry if this is off topic, so when can we expect dell to start selling the 6990m or the 580m separately?
     
    hteng, Aug 7, 2011
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  45. ewitte12

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    Pretty good difference with IC diamond. I just got out of a game and in the 10 seconds it took to check GPU-Z it already dropped to 56C. Will see in an hour or so if it gives me any more.
     
    ewitte12, Aug 8, 2011
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    Nice overclock, it's been a while since I've seen a Clevo card managing such clocks... You should be able to push the card slightly more during vantage, do have a vantage run at 900MHz? I'd love to see it :)

    Edit: Lol, it was your card which I had in mind... seen your posts in the sager/clevo section a while ago... what about a 900MHz vantage run? :D
     
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    Just ran 3DMark11 and Vantage again after installing 8 GB of Hyperx 1600 RAM and a 128 GB M4 SSD with a clean install. My 3dMark11 score went up about 120 points to 3514, and Vantage was 14148.

    http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1638850

    http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3380580

    All GPU and CPU clock rates are stock thus far. Just trying to get a baseline.
     
    TostitoBandito, Aug 8, 2011
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    Trixx wont let me play with the voltage either... Dont know why.
     
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