Alienware M17X R3 - Game Benchmark Thread

Hey all.

After a lot of playing around with various synthetic benchmarks, I thought I'd take a crack at making a thread to track results of only game-based benchmarks. I did this for a couple reasons:

1. Game benchmarks typically offer more insight on real-world performance than synthetic benchmarks.

2. Game benchmarks are generally a better test for overclocks than synthetic benchmarks. For example, I can run 3DMark Vantage at a much higher GPU clock rate than I can run a full set of Crysis benchmarks at. This helps to find a truly stable overclock that you can use for everything, not just 3DMark.


As for this thread, I'd love to see results from any M17X R3 with any CPU or GPU, either overclocked or stock. The only benchable game I have at the moment is Crysis, but please submit others if you have them (eg. Witcher 2, Crysis 2, etc...). Also, this isn't so much a contest for highest score as it is a compilation of results and data. I will do something to denote the highest scores in the overclocked section, but outside of that I will just sort and arrange all the results submitted.

When posting results to this thread, please include a screenshot showing the score, benchmark settings/parameters, and also the clock settings and driver version if possible. Please also specify your full configuration if it isn't in your signature.

Recommended benchmark parameters will be specified next to the game title if we have a set standardized.

If a game benchmark is not listed here please feel free to submit it. The more data the better.

I will track results and keep this updated the best I can. Enjoy.

Crysis Benchmark Tool
Crysis 2 Benchmark Tool



RESULTS:

STOCK CLOCK SETTINGS

Arma II (Benchmark1, 1920x1080, Very High Preset)

• 41 FPS ----- darkxerox (2720qm, 6990m, 11.8 drivers)
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Crysis (1920x1080, Very High, DX10, x64, NoAA)

• 30.135 FPS ----- the revelator (2820qm, 6990m, 11.9 drivers)
• 29.825 FPS ----- tostitobandito (2720qm, 6990m, 11.8 drivers)
• 23.27 FPS ----- dookie11 (2720qm, 6970m, 11.7 drivers)
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Crysis 2 (Ultra, 1920x1080, NoAA, Central Park, 3 runs, DX11, Edge Blur, Hi-res Textures on)

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Dirt3 (1920x1080, High, 8x MSAA)

• 60.38 FPS ----- b4n6k3 (2630qm, 6990m, 11.7 drivers)
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Metro2033 (1920x1080, High, DX10, 4x AA/AF)

• 25.67 FPS ----- luxferro (2630qm, 6990m, 11.9 drivers)
• 22.08 FPS ----- dookie11 (2720qm, 6970m, 11.7 drivers)
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OVERCLOCKED

Arma II (Benchmark1, 1920x1080, Very High Preset)

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Crysis (1920x1080, Very High, DX10, x64, NoAA)

• 35.09 FPS ----- tostitobandito (2720qm, 6990m @ 820/1200, 11.8 drivers)
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Crysis 2 (Ultra, 1920x1080, NoAA, Central Park, 3 runs, DX11, Edge Blur, Hi-res Textures on)

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Dirt3 (1920x1080, High, 8x MSAA)

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Metro2033 (1920x1080, High, DX10, 4x AA/AF)

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GPU overclock to 820/1200 (825 was unstable)

 

Hi Tostito, you may want to add up Metro2033 (it has an a benchmark .exe on the main installation folder), Dirt3 (it has benchmark on the graphic settings menu). At the moment i cannot recall out of my mind any other game with benchamark features.. If i do, i shall post it here.

 

Will do. Thanks!

 

arma II has 2 benchmark modes

although fairly basic they will show the average fps at the end.

ran trough the 1st benchmark mode a few times on high settings gettin 56fps average on stock settings.

i'll see about doing it again tomorrow with max settings n stuff

 

with metro 2033 I overclock (825/1100) graphics on high, DX11, AA enabled, and 1080p and get 30-40fps using fraps. hope this helps.

 

um just a quick question, I know that you mentioned AA, but what about AF? I personaly didnt run any game benchmarks yet on my r3 but I know that when I played DA2 the AF (even more so than AA somehow) settings really played into my FPS

 

Crysis 1 (1920x1080, 64-bit, DX10, Very High, No AA) -- 30.135fps
2820QM, 6990M @ 715/900, Catalyst 11.9 drivers

Stock

 

I just mentioned AA as it pertains to the Crysis benchmark (AA actually only drops my Crysis benchmarks by a couple frames, even at 16x). Other game benchmarks may have AF parameters as well (Crysis' benchmark does not). Generally though, benches are run without AA/AF since you can figure out roughly how big a hit you'll take from enabling that by looking at your base FPS and doing the math.

Feel free to submit whatever you like though. If we can decide amongst ourselves on "standard" bench settings for these other games like we have for Crysis, that'd be a big plus.

 

Can you run the benchmark exe that comes with the game? I'm assuming these results were averages from gameplay.

 

right done a benchmark with arma II

This is Arma II Combined ops (armaII with expansion)

My r3 is running a stock 6990m
i7-2720qm @ stock
8gb 1333 dell ram

ugh after messing about with the forums it seems it doesnt do autoresize when u link pics lol

1st pic is the bench i used
2nd and 3rth is on the very high preset
4th and 5th is on a custom setting, basicly turned off postprocess and put the 3d res to match the interface res

oh forgot to add im using the 11.8 drivers

 

Thanks!

I went ahead and used the result done with the Very High preset, since it seems a bit simpler for people to reproduce.

 

yeh thought the same although i added the 2nd one as thats how i mostly have it set, wee bit lower settings but yeh.

blur is annoyin

 

Mine... Using Dirt 3....

All Stock.... 2630QM, 6690M, 4GB Ram......

I put all on max Setting, 8x MSAA and Post Processing.....

 

Thanks!

Do you know which AMD drivers you were using (eg. 11.7, 11.8, 11.9)?

 

Any 580M, 560M, 6970M, 6870M, or 460M users want to chime in? I'd love to get some more variety.

 

I'm noob here.... just got my R3 for about 1 weeks, and its my first time using Ati GPU......

where i can find which driver version that I used....??

strange, In M11x and M14x thread, the game benchmark thread is always seen on the page 1..... but not here in M17x, It's a new thread actually. seems like most M17x users here didn't use their rig for gaming.....

 

Hey,

I did the Metro2033 for ya.

2720, 6970, stock everything, High Performance Profile.
Settings in the picture.

If you show me how/where to do the benchmarks for Crysis 1, 2, Warhead, BFBC2, SC2, and COD Black OPs, I can do those too.

 

Don't know about the others, but for Crysis go download this tool:

Crysis Benchmark Tool 1.05 Final download from Guru3D.com

It lets you set all the parameters in a GUI and then queues up the benchmark run with Crysis' built-in benchmark executable. You can see screenshots of the settings I used on the first page of the thread.

 

You are using 11.7 then if you used the stock Dell drivers. You can tell by looking in your display settings, or by just running GPU-Z.

There are multiple benchmark threads for the m17x. The main one is actually mostly R2 users and all synthetic benchmarks, so I thought I'd make this one.

 

I don't know which one, my GPU-Z only show 8.851.20....... which one is it ??

anyway, I tried to update into 11.8 using auto detect driver download for Ati web, but it says it not compatible with my system....

what the last update driver for 6690M card ?? should I download it manual ??

 

Resident Evil 5, SS4, and Mafia 2 also have game benchmarks.

 

http://www2.ati.com/DriVeRs/mobile/11-8_mobility_vista_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe

That link should get you the drivers that work (it's what I use). The standard 11.8 download from AMD doesn't support laptops with integrated graphics.

 

Bump for instructions on how to do benchmarks for those other games (not Crysis 1). I've got some time.

 

Here's results for Crysis 1. 6970, High Performance, 1080p, 32-bit, yada yada yada in the picture attached

FYI, those were settings I used when I played the game before, and the game went perfectly fine. I didn't know it was 20something fps until I used Fraps that one time. If you turn it down to High, then the fps jumps to like 45or so, which makes the game even better, and hardly a graphical difference. Hope this helps.

 

Oh yeah, this is my version of the ATI thingamajig. Not sure which 11.xx it is, but hopefully someone can ID it for us.

 

was thinking seeing we got ppl with 3d on their laptops

to get some 3d bechmarks on games going, might help ppl decide to go for 3d or not.

 

I'll enter this data, but I'd actually recommend running these again with a value of at least 3 in the "demo loops" field. The first run is typically substantially slower than subsequent runs since it's still loading assets for the first few seconds of the first run, so I bet you can get a couple more FPS. Also, for consistency's sake, please check the x64 box and make sure your time of day value is 9 (09:00).

Thanks!

 

I'll accept them, but I don't have much interest myself. On max settings you can expect your frame rate to be about 30-40% of normal, if that. Even an OC'd 580m doesn't have nearly enough horsepower to render demanding games in 3D. You'd be getting like 10 FPS unless you cranked the settings WAY down. 3D isn't really practical unless you have a multi-GPU solution, despite what Alienware would like to advertise.

 

Here's my M17x R3 2630qm, 6990m, Metro 2033 results. All stock clocks. Catalyst 11.9.

 

Dang, not much of a diff from the 6970. Hmmmm..

 

It is a 16% increase, which is around what I would expect, especially considering the 6970 score is using a faster CPU. The difference is probably closer to 20% with the CPU's being equal.

That said, need more data!

 

thanks for the link..... +1 Rep

some of the Fellas here already update into 11.9. Where do they get the link...?? should I updated into 11.9 instead ?

 

11.9 is a beta/RC release. You can find it if you google for mobility 11.9 drivers similar to those I linked. I'm going to wait for the official release though; I don't need to use beta drivers.

 

Unfortunately, those are all the games I have. I do have lots of emulator games though, which all run fine, if you're curious.

 

I did some other runs on Metro 2033, but don't have them handy at work. But one run was the same as my last, but at low resolution, and it only netted 5 more fps.

Just for some sort of comparison, I just ran the Metro benchmark remotely on my desktop (cat 11.8). 2500K @ 4.2GHz, and 2x HIS IceQ X Turbo H695QNT2G2M Radeon HD 6950 in crossfire. between 20 seconds and 40 seconds is kinda killer no matter how powerful your system is for some reason.

 

Anyone with a Nvidia card want to run some benches? I'm especially curious about the 560M.

 

I'm curios about Metro 2033 and want to do some Benchmark. During Install should I install the physX also ?? I skip this process, and only 3 second run and it kicked me into the desktop. Thought the PhysX only working for NVIDA Graphic card.....

 

nvidia cards have a cpu to process phsyx

u still need the software installed to run certain games even if u dont have a nvidia card.

your cpu will deal with the physics stuff instead

 

Thanks Pal, +1 Rep......

so, let's install the physX now.....

 

Hmmm... dunno if y'all saw the slickdeal yesterday for the G53SW for like $900, but... it got me "re-curious" about the capability of the 460m. Anyone care to share some game benchies with 460m?

 

what he said.

If you look at all the results from metro 2033, you'll see the fps dip severely between 20-40 seconds into the bench. This is when all the shooting and stuff is happening. I think this is also when all the physx stuff is happening, hence the lower fps on AMD/ATI cards since the CPU is handling the physx. Nvidia cards probably do a lot better between 20-40 seconds, since physx is handled by the GPU and optimized for it... that is my guess anyway.

 

Just got Dirt 3. It's a fun game. Can't save a screenshot though, but I'll run a benchie for ya in a sec.

*EDIT*: I'll run 3, based on your recommendation from last time

 

intel should have added a physx processor on their new i series chipset instead of a gpu for lets say a gaming line of cpu

 

TostitoBandito asked me to post this here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...-high-rez-texture-pack-6990m.html#post7924690

essentially...Crysis 2, DX 11 patch and ultra texture pack installed...1920x1080...graphics maxxed with "ULTRA" setting, everything on, oc'ed 6990m...and its very playable

 

I don't have any of the four games in the OP but would run a bench with our 460m as requested if we have the game.

 

What is this "ultra texture pack" people speak of for Crysis2?

 

It is a patch that adds high resolution textures.

 

it really makes Crysis 2 what it should have been for the PC as opposed to being a crappy low res console port. You need to install crysis 2 patch 1.9 first

the graphics look crisper. You should download the DX 11 patch and the High res texture pack from here:

Crysis 2 DX 11 Ultra pack

here is an example of the updates that Direct X 11 brings:

MyCrysis - DX11 - Tessellation 3 On

BUT needless to say, your fps will take a hit

 

Hey there everyone got a old school benchmark that i would love to see how the
M17x R3 laptops handle considering selling my R2 for a R3 if it is a big enough increase

X3TC Rolling Demo 422MB

Only uses DX9 but is CPU intensive