M17x CF5870's Benchmarks

Dont know if i was suppose to but i am starting a new thread just for benchmarks for the Crossfire 5870's. Will be running vantage soon

 

Can you please check with GPU-Z your system. Check also that you are not in stealth mode.

 

Crysis benchmarks please

 

Yeh, it looks like either Crossfire is not working, or it's not in performance mode.

 

Stock everything, ATI 10.5 drivers

 

Did not change anything at all...

 

what are the stock clocks for the 5870?

 

hey guys, i got mine today and i setting it up. I dont recall the software for checking temps on the cpu and CF. I think its HWinfo or HW monitor or close to that. Anyone know for sure?

 

HWinfo32

Here you go

 

Yep you got it.

 

Why not show your benchmarking in the " Official m17x Benchmark Thread " ?

 

anyone recall the HW version that can report on the ATI cards?

 

Surely something's wrong. That vantage score is what I get with my 4870's @ 600/1000

 

yes we need crysis benchmarks now please.no 3d mark or w/e

 

Can we plz have theses posted in the official bencmark thread

 

Can we get some Robot Unicorn Attack benches and frame rates please?

 

I'm downloading Crysis on Steam right now. How do I benchmark with it?

 

I want to know how they run The Oregon trail?

 

well i installed the CF fix for lotro and played for a few minutes. CPU hit 72c. GPU0 hit 79c and gpu1 hit 77c.

will get fps in a minute

 

I cannot get out of stealth mode, any suggestions. CC is acting weird. When i manually go to the startup menu and select Alienware, alienfusion, it says everything is ok. but when i select the shorcut on the desktop or Alienware command center, it says stealth mode enabled. im lost

 

Stupid question, how do you read temps?
I ran Vantage Pro and got these-

3DMark Score P12645 3DMarks P60748 3DMarks
CPU Score 11592 72360
Graphics Score 13040

 

Eyefinity!! does it work

 

second stock benchmark with the cpu idle tweak thru regedit.

 

second benchtest using ed 06. more to come.

 

I don't understand why your 06 scores are so low. It makes no sense.

 

There is some weird stuff going on with some of these cards. I just ordered another R2 today with the 5870's. I hope I don't have any issues.

 

Dells vBIOS are modded, as Joker said. Making it difficult to use ATI drivers., Just throwing that out there. It could be causing this.

 

make sure you have powerplay enabled (because it throttles clocks if you disable it). if you want to disable it, simply set it to max performance on both power and battery.

make sure you are not in stealth mode.

finally, 06 scores are fairly moot for comparison purposes unless you're sporting a 920XM.

 

yeah im not in stealth nor anything other than high performance. The highest ive seen is 18 or so but with the highest rated cpu, dunno. This is with stock 700/1000 max with 83 max temps.

 

So far based on vantage results, I'm not too impressed with these 5870s. The system cost me ~$2700 vs the other R2 I have with dual 4870s that cost me $1700. That's a $1000 difference for 10-12% gain and DX 11 thrown in. Tough decision for me, don't know if I'll keep it.

 

single 5870 gpu score is about 7000. This one is 13000. Not too shabby don't you think? The 3dmark06 is normal because the CPU is holding it back. Stock single 5870 is abt 12,000.

 

We might need a Dell MR5870 inquiry thread soon. Maybe we can get a tech rep on here to explain how they messed up, and what they are going to do to get these cards running at their peak potential. I want what I paid for not a vbios neutered card. If this doesn't get solved within 30 day's I'll definitely be sending it back.

 

Glad I'm not a too early adopter

 

Yes, somthing is up with that 3dmark06 score. I get 15125 on a OCZ/M17 with the 3870s

I am upgrading 5870s, hope I wont be disappointed

 

Well if you guys have any suggestions let me know and ill try it as long as it wont damage my baby. I've been trying to mess with the crysis bench tool with no luck.

 

play some games see how the cards fare.

 

Yeah, the cards do not sound too terrific, IMHO.
Higher temps, minor gain... Was about to pull the trigger and upgrade. Now will wait till 480's are benched. Decisions ....

 

Yeam but the $1000 can't be totally attributed to the GPU's as 4870-->5870 is only what? $300?

 

Other people get 19100 on 3D Mark 06. Either you only have one card or maybe just one card working.

Something is wrong with your PC.

 

i personally think the cards need a good bios unlock or something. I think dell has limited their capabilities by the sounds of things

 

Yeah it sounds like it. We need to start a thread that some Dell guys can look at. This is not normal for those cards.

 

What we need is someone to run some benches out of the box without changing ANYTHING other than turning it on and installing the benchmarking software. The OP already admitted that this was with stock ATI drivers that were released *today*.

 

That was done today by many people the 19100 is from Achilleus... Stock everything

 

I doubt it. i7-720QM is the culprit. Only ~3k CPU score. You need 920XM + OC to hit 19k.

 

I just finally got home after being on the road to the spine doctor for 10 hours. Preliminary results are similar.

3D mark Vantage - P12578
Old System 4870s - P11427

Increase - 10%

One thing I noticed, which is disconcerting is that my CPU score is a good bit lower. I might just need to swap the CPU for the one in the other system before it goes back.

Heaven 2.0 - 53.1 fps
Old System 4870s - 48.7 fps

Increase - 9.3%

Those are the basic synthetics so far. I haven't finished moving my steam folder over. Will have Crysis, Lost Coast, and Batman up soon, as well as the details of my settings.

Bottom line, we're looking at about a 10% increase and an additional of DirectX 11. ( Heaven with Tessellation looks amazing on here, but I'm still playing with those settings ). This is in line with my expectations. I was expecting about 54-55 on Heaven, but this might be because of my CPU. We'll see.

Stay tuned for more.

 

Your right, other people with similiar specs are getting +/- 100 points using 3d 06 and vantage, so my computers fine its just a better processor will def help with OC and good drivers.

 

Not true. Mine is not overclocked and this is my score for 06:

 

Thats what i did. Gained 100 or so by not letting the cpus go to sleep.

 

DUDE, 920 vs 720, i loose big time. That is the culprit, sorry processor equates to +-5-6k plus double the ram and speed of it.

 

@Achilleus,
Could you check if you have a 5% OC' enabled in BIOS. That would be my guess. Even with no OC' 920XM is a huge boost in 3DMark06.