*OFFICIAL* Alienware 17 and M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 4

check out the difference in bus interface too...

 

Nice benchmarks of the new amd card here:

Eurocom Racer: Why the Radeon HD 6970M Rocks - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

 

The bus interface should not make a difference as neither of these cards can saturate it. You would need a dual GPU card with 2 high end GPUs for the bus to become a bottleneck

 

Thanks, I am confused though on why there would be cards with 1120 shaders out there...

 

They may have dropped it to 960 later in the design process to improve yield and drop price?

 

yep the cores are different and like scook say they may srink the card to save money or lower the TDP

i already try to flash ichime bios to mine and that don't unlock the card the only thing i can say is those ES 6970's are gold if some one can get their hands on one of those they are lucky

 

....and I've been denying ES waiting for retail

 

I don't understand because Tirenz got he's cards long time ago and they are ES but only 960 processors http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/556994-amd-radeon-6970m-eta-resellers-3.html#post7193342

 

i posted earlier in that thread that eurocom straight up read me an internal email regarding them getting 6990M ES March 7, 2011. But that was quite a bit after (EDIT: Tirenz) getting his 6970

Called and asked why I still don't have my 6970 in hand and the guy was like "oh hold on I just got 2 emails about it" and proceeded to read them aloud.

 

ichime the string in the inf only reads 6900 series (thus what it says in GPU-z), is the device id the same as the retail 6970s? Maybe it is a 6990 ES afterall

 

I think that's the name when I use the official 11.2 or 11.4 drivers. Even HWinfo reports it as a 6970M.

I think this should be called the 6970M XT or something...

 

I figured this was the most appropriate place for this. My CPU scores have been lower than usual lately, so I checked out the task manager. The moment I begin a benchmark, many instances of 'FMSISscan.exe' and 'Conhost.exe' begin running. Is this normal for all of you, too?

 

hey made Vantage test got P14940 :s Got i7 920xm CF5870 ?

i think its low? isint it ? or normal ? CF is enabled also stealth mode is off

if its good can i overclock my CF?

 

That looks about right for stock. If you overclock it will go up

 

That's pretty close to what I get with an OC'd 6970M in an R3 with an entry level SB processor. Damn these 6970M's are powerful.

 

Yes they are, that makes the M17x R3 acceptable with 1 GPU

I would be perfectly happy if someone offered me an R3 for my R1 (Assuming of course I got the specs I want)

 

Yup from my tests so far, the 6970M is equivalent to 4870M Crossfire in performance and is overall about 15% slower than 5870M Crossfire in most DX9/10 games but matches the 5870M Xfire in DX11. The M18x is going to be a monster with two of these cards.

 

ok how can i overlock my stock gpu btw am using i7 920 with my CF 5870 STock i tested them with Furmark and got a big throttling :S what can i do to stop throttle and overclock my gpu . btw about overclocking will i see big difference in numbers? or a few?

 

stock settings on my single 5870 and i only get a score of 6461 in pcmark vantage
3d mark 06 i get 12600
if i overclock to 800/1100 i only get 13000 in 3d mark 06
how do you guys get such high scores?
i'm new to this so please help me get my scores up
how easy is bios flashing for my 5870 ?
thanks

 

06 is heavily CPU dependant, the further you push you CPU, the better the score will be

Vantage is much more GPU dependent and reflects an overclock on the gpus very well

PCMark is mostly a CPU/RAM/Storage benchmark with little influence from the graphics card

 

but my scores are lower in vantage comparing to the average of 7614
and how can i get my scores up/

thanks

 

i'm now getting 9188 in vantage for gpu and overall 8679 running core at 800 and mem at 1150 with afterburner, i cant go any higher
on my 1st run in vantage it said core i5 clock 2000
but now it says 2660!!

 

I don't have any experience with Vantage and the arrandale/clarksfield/lynnfield cpus unfortunately so can't tell you about the CPU speed stuff

As for changes in score, there will be fluctuations due to thing running in the background on your OS. The 3DMark benches are sort of known for being inconsistent

 

12371 In 3DMarks Vantage. Seems low to me, compared to the numbers I've seen thrown out there. I haven't altered anything, just wanted to run it the way it is. Does this seem low for my specs? CPU = 20568.8 GPU = 10921.23. I did shut down stuff in the sys tray, but that was all. Since I don't bench much, I don't know all the lil tweaks, thats probably common knowledge amongst most of you.

 

Hello all, got my R2 last week, i had noise problem, bsod problem not recognised problem and probably all other probs but thank you for this forum i got alien running...now next prob is i have only 5507 3d mark vantage why??
im running: I7 720qm, 5870cf, 250 WD black, 1200RGB yes!!,
flashed succesfully bios to A10, flashed succesfully 5870bios, running dells drivers +CCC shows linked cf both cards, idle temps are 37 and 38 (celsius of course) vantage is basic ed,1280x1024 res performance test nash 10fps??

 

Try different drivers would be my first suggestion. Try older drivers as well. I have had quibbles with 11.1 and 11.2 drivers. I would suggest you guys try 10.10 to 10.12 drivers.

Here is the link to the 10.12 drivers:

Download ATI Catalyst Mobility 10.12 Software Suite Vista/7 64-bit | techPowerUp

One of the problems is uninstalling the 11.1 / 11.2 drivers can be tough. I would suggest restoring the pc before you installed the 11 series drivers if possible.

Otherwise I recommend doing this for uninstalling the drivers:

1) Add/remove programs and uninstall catalyst drivers the conventional way. Don't restart yet.
2) delete ati/amd folders in c:/program files and in user/appdata/local, appdata/local/low, and in user/appdata roaming folder.
*to see the appdata folder make sure you can view hidden file types by clicking on the Organize tab, then folder and search options, then click on view tab, then click on the "show hidden files" circle option.
3) Then run driversweeper. Don't restart yet.
4) Then right clock on my computer, select properties, then go to device manager. On display adapters right click on the display adapter(6970m or whatever you have), select properties, then click the driver tab, and then click the uninstall button. A windows appears to confirm uninstall, and make sure to check the little box that says "Delete the driver software for this device."
5) restart, then try the 10.10 to 10.12 drivers and see if you get a performance boost.

 

So I'm running the Unigine benchmark and it seems to only run/detect my Intel IGP not my GTX 460m

I'm getting about 5fps and at the end it's sais in the system info unknown gpu 256mb

I'm pretty sure the 460m is well over 256mb.......

Does anybody know how to run benchmarks correctly?? Same thing happened with 3D mark 11. In my Nvidia control panel I added the program to run the GPU but I'm still getting the same results.

 

Did you add the desktop shortcut to your whitelist or the actual .exe file from the installation folder?

 

The actual .exe file

 

Hi!

it somehow worked, with 11.2 drivers my comp went totally crazy hwinfo32 showed 3120mhz on sec graphics and 2 rops i thought it fried but used cccleaner,sweeper and installed 10.12 drivers and wham, althought now i dont have connection need some troubleshooting.
Thank you for your help.

 

I got my score up a bit.

19,179

 

Uhmm.. as I announced in my "thoughts thread," I will be getting a replacement cuz of the scratched lid. So if you could provide me instructions on how to run various benchmarks (list of programs, instructions on how to run it, etc.), I'd be glad to run anything before I reformat this and send it back to Dell.

Thx!

 

hey guys,
I overclocked my 5870m xfire in R2 but I couldn't set clock for both of the card, Im using AMD GPU tool which just allows me set clock for main card and offcourse before I did furmar trick to enable both of them, do you have any suggesstion? thanks...

 

Use rivatuner and atiflash for set the clocks in your bios

 

no way else with AMD tool bro?

 

AMD tool won't work but there are other ways to do it. I guess I'll write up a quick "how to OC 6970M" guide.

 

If you could do that it would be awesome!!!

 

It's the same than the 5870M, it's a easy step.

Here is mine, but in french, use google translate if you need to:
http://portables4gamers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=9141

 

I'm getting low results with my m17x R2 loaded with i7 720QM, 2x HD 5870 CF, and 6 GB RAM at 1333. System uses the latest dell drivers, latest bios and vbios and it's not overclocked.

Are these results normal ? or there is something wrong here...tho the system is very stable and runs crysis 2 in full details at 1440x900 very well.

3dmark 2006 : 13851
SM2.0 Score: 5181
HDR/SM3.0 Score : 7583
CPU Score : 3171

3dvantage : P13250
Gpu Score : 14368
Cpu Score : 10743

3dmark 2011 : P3822
Graphics Score : 3884
Physics Score : 3951
Combined score : 3277

 

follow some guides out there, Im successful overclock 5870m xfire by rivatuner, I have one more question, powerplay function is working when we reflash our oc vbios? thanks in advance and credit for Joker and Ka-nabeesse

 

Yes PowerPlay work if your flash your vbios with higher clocks.

If you overclock your GPU with Rivatuner, powerplay will be disabled and your GPU will be always at 3D clocks

 

I flashed my 5870s already and now I have p14355 in Vantage with i7 720qm at 1.7Ghz and 5870s at 808/1200

 

Made it easy. Great work!!! Thanks......

 

Has anyone seen this issue? I'm using ATIFlash to flash my vbios, as I just got new cards. I'm using the command line

Nothing seems to work. I get an error and it says "ROM not erased" Anyone know how I can get around this?

 

You have atiflash 3.84 ?

 

try typing this: atiflash -unlockrom 0

 

Thanks guys, +rep.

I ended up figuring it out before I read your responses. Not sure if the unlock would have worked, I think it might have, but I just flashed the cards using ATI Winflash. Was a pain because I had to swap the slave into the master slot to get it to work, but both are unlocked now.

Makes me wonder if Dell is starting to put the lock down on thier cards

 

Just when you thought the bar couldn't get any higher... BOOM-SHAKALAKA!!

First 21K Run in a true notebook.

Vantage: P21012
GPU: 20565
CPU: 22477



I'm going to try and do a 1K GPU core run, but I need to get some time. Early next week I hope.

 

hi my specs are mx17 R2 cpu i7 740qm gpu 2x 5870, 250gb hard disk,4gb ram, i run a bench test with the free 3d mark basic edtion and my score was just over 3000 it seems a little low it this right for these specs thankyou

 

hi my specs are mx17 R2 cpu i7 740qm gpu 2x 5870, 250gb hard disk,4gb ram, i run a bench test with the free 3d mark basic edtion and my score was just over 3000 it seems a little low it this right for these specs thankyou