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

R.I.P. GTX 580M leaderboard folks!

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P21762 3DMarks



AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2920XM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P5821 3DMarks



Stock GPU, light CPU overclock, tessellation on.

 

Dayum! Do you still have brightness control?

 

Nope. XD I'm stuck on max brightness, was using my external monitor though so didn't notice till now...

 

Well done mate! How was the installation like? What heatsink are you using? Seems like awesome temps @ 3dmark11, woud be cool if we could see them @ vantage for the gpu

 

Ah I see that's the draw back of modded drivers. When your GPU is running full load, what does the PCIe reading of GPUz read?

 

I've replaced my GPU so many times so it feels like another daily task, so quite easy. I am using an Nvidia 580M heatsink with the extra copper, despite what happened to graz'zt, I just increased padding where it needed increasing and decreased padding where it needed decreasing, etc. I ramp my fans to max when benchmarking, max GPU temp for Vantage was 58C (heatsink warming up, etc). Personally I think I could have padded better, I don't know. But the AMD heatsink is probably easier to set up.

widezu, GPU-Z reads:



But it is quite broken as you've noticed.

 

Thats it, I'm putting all my stuff up for sale tonight in the Marketplace. I gotta get my hands on a pair of these for the R2...Long live the beast.

BTW, the NBR Marketplace rules say nothing about kidneys...

 

Thanks G! It looks like it is PCIe 3.0 x16 running at x8 (PCIe 2.0) speeds. Doesn't make that much of a difference for mobile cards as they don't come close to saturating the bandwidth but good to know.

Shame there aren't any more GPUs left. I guess it's a good thing preventing me distraction so I can finish my dissertation

 

It could maybe explain why AMD's Vantage benchmark is higher?
Since Vantage is very bandwidth hungry, but 2000 points higher because of this? Hmmmm.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M - Notebookcheck.net Tech

AMD's 3DMark11 benchmark however, is very accurate to mine...

Write dissertations and sell kidneys.. there's still plenty of time left till Trixx support arrives! >:]

 

Yeah I guess it's to do with frames. In Vantage, frame rate is high and the bandwidth is bottlenecking rather than GPU power. In '11, bandwidth is not the bottleneck so performance is similar.

Shouldn't be any noticeable difference in gaming

 

Can't wait to see what you can do when the optimized drivers role out geo.

 

Reading the posts in this thread, I feel like I'm watching The Big Bang Theory. I cant understand anything but I love it

 

I can't wait till we get some Trixx support (I have been e-mailing the author asking him nicely to add support asap) so we can *hopefully* get to stock desktop GTX 580 speeds. Sweet Jesus :O

Oh I love being an Alienware owner so much.

 

i have brightness control...

GEO, now that you have the card, you can help me OC the damn card

Things that i ahve tried:

I tried to get OVERDRIVE to appear in CCC...no luck

After cats 12.2, ati removed 2 dll's that third party OC programs need...SO, we added it back and modded the inf. Reinstalled the drivers...no luck

Tried to manually increase MSI AFTERBURNER overclock limits via registry mod. This worked before...but with the 7970m...no luck. Currently Afterburner's max limit is the stock 850/1200 speed of the 7970m. Hence no OC'ing possible yet

tried ATI Tray Tools after adding back the dll's in the driver. It installed, but on the OC menus, the limits are too low and registry mod isn't working (when it did for previous versions of cards)

Tried pulling the vbios via 2 methods...no good.

The new Sapphire Trixx released yesterday doesn't support the 7970m yet

GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Apart from asking the overclock fairy... I have nothing to add to that.

 

can you try pulling the vbios via ATIFlash and USB. Can you give that a go?

 

I got a bootable USB around somewhere, I will try that in a few minutes. Just chillaxing for the moment, everything working...

 

LOL...ya, i know the feeling. I'm on a mission though. I need to overclock this thing. I NEED GTX 580 desktop performance in my laptop.

MUST OVERCLOCK...

MUST....

 

What's gonna happen to your 580m then? Frankensystem! All the parts are available on ebay.

 

You mean my 675M, widezu?

ATIflash worked. Here is the dump:

 

Oh yeah oops! Hehe

Thanks for the massive dump I'll take a look

 

Awesome...let the beaver go to work

 

No love. RBE 1.28 doesn't recognize it as a valid ATI bios.

 

The vbios on the 7970's are very different unfortunately...but we have a modded vbios now with 900/1250 clocks (from 850/1200 stock). Geo and I are just too chicken to install it lol

 

One of you will be unable to resist eventually. How was it modded?

 

svl7 did it...i think from a pure hex editor

 

Yep, exactly.

Though it seems the desktop 7000 series VBIOS isn't modding friendly at all. Only way to find out whether it's going to work is flashing it.

 

depending on your bios...you should be able to recover by booting in sg mode, then reflash the bricked card...that's the short side of the story.

 

Oles Peeps!

Finally the Chief has found some time to whack in a couple of 6990Ms into the R2. Time for some benching FUN!

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz,Alienware score: P6430 3DMarks

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz,Alienware score: P6666 3DMarks (It's not the Devil guys lol)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz,Alienware score: P6881 3DMarks

Cheers.

 

My GTX 580m still give fight

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and i play BF3 and Skyrim and Metro 2033(@900MHz) and other hardcore games 50+FPS exept metro 2033 XD! and with our overheatign and problems

 

Cool man very nice and low temps there.

Cheers.

 

Tanks and i am waitng the new 680m or the 7970m XD1 my first pay of mcdonalls will buy that new Baby

 

Cookin' now, Chief. Rock on, plenty of headroom left.

 

Nice work! Makes me want to start playing with my R2. +1

 

2 video card -.-... maine is just 1...

 

Dropped my ram down to 8 gigs for optimal numbers...OC'ed right off the top to 950/1300, Tessellation is ON:



AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6079 3DMarks

more to come...

 

so wanna join back into the game

Great numbers Slick! enjoy smooth gaming and perma smile

 

OMG OMG OMG!!! but only 100MHz??? mmmm

 

oh...don't worry. There's alot more room. My max temps are 67c

Lets get you fixed up, bro...you'll be right back in the game

 

oh...don't worry. There's alot more room. My max temps are 67c


NICE but imean u can run the FANS to 7000RPM and OVerlocke to 1050Mhz like an 580 DESKTOP

 

Please do 1Ghz / 1400

This should be achievable. Damn I'm excited!

 

now u can run Metro 2033 i can run it very well on my 580m with 900MHz... now imagine 1050MHz... and 1400Mhz OMG!!!

 

EPIC!!!!

+ make sure you do the same Clock Runs with Tesselation off as well so we can see some more massive numbers!!!

Great stuff! SLick does it again!
GEO get in on the action lol!

Cheers.

 

you meant 800??

 

im goign with the 7970m the 680m can off... im pretty sure that the 680m would cost 2 times more and it would be the same.. as the 7970m...

nope i run Metro 2033 at 900MHz jiji

 

HAHA Thanks guys!
I'm a bit lazy these days in terms of benching, however the weather is starting to get a bit cooler now so I thought ah perfect timing. Plus with all these 7970M GPUs about to descend down upon us I better get some old school 6990M runs in 1st lol The Chief is struggling to get even close.....a work in progress though!
Time to try and get back into DR's amazing TOP 5

It sure feels like something is holding me back though atm. My clocks are similar to the guys in the top 5 but they are breaking 7k with ease lol
I can't quite put my finger on it atm. I'm getting closer with Vantage though.

The London games are about to kick off in a few months. We should have a BENCHOLYMPICS as well LOL hahaahah

FoXXY its time to give the R2 some Luvin again! Looking at the R2s amazing screen after such a long time, it really does still blow me away lol.

Cheers.

EDIT: WooT!!!

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz,Alienware score: P7080 3DMarks

CMON!!!

AMD Radeon HD 6970M / 6990M video card benchmark result - Intel(R) Core(TM) CPU X 920 @ 2.00GHz,Alienware score: P7594 3DMarks

WOW the power brick is taking an absolute beating!!! It just gave out, just as I was about to push on even higher!!! Now I need to let it rest and cool down.

Cheers.

Not wrong there REV
I just need to find a way to tap into it now.

I would SURE love to see a 26k Vantage and 8k 3d Mark 11

Cheers.

 

Omg thats epic! Lets see how far can it goes . but whats the trick? How did you get it to OC?

 

Im going fo rthis Baby... Paf... i was watign the 680m and didnt came out so im goign to get this monster... and more cheper

 

No Tess 950/1300



AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P6711 3DMarks

 

^^ WHAT??!!! wow nvidia cannot tackle this