*OFFICIAL* M17x Benchmark Thread - Part 3

Sorry 20% is the 460m OC'ed -VS- stock 6970m, going off the GPU Vantage score average of both cards it works out to be about 20% that way. I'd imagine the stock -VS- stock would probably be closer to 30%. My bad If I could get a friggin way to change the voltages of the 460m I could close that gap even further

 

I want to be able to change the voltages too! I'm just going to wait for someone to dump the video bios and remove the protection.

 

On the 460m or on the 6970 zippys007?

 

zippys007 would you be able to dump the vBios on your 6970m with GPUz and send to me or ichime. want to see if ichime can change his 6970m for the R2

 

The 6970m shouldn't have an issue with voltages, all 460m's for some reason do they won't read voltages at all even when dumped with nvFlash.

 

Was a bit scared to do this due to the temperatures the card reached because the fan controls don't work (I used HWmonitor to max out the fans, but the fans kept throttling back), but here is the Vantage GPU score of a 6970M in an M17x-R2:



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Pretty much the same as what a GTX 485M scores (the other 6970M Vantage scores posted were pre Catalyst 11.2). The 11.4 Beta drivers are supposed to be even faster, but I won't bench anymore until I can get either the fan issues fixed or manual fan control without the throttling.

 

Have you contacted Mumak about possibly finding a solution? RadeonPro also has a device id spoof built into it, I'm not sure if it will help with fan control but it's worth looking into. Finally, if you haven't already, try the R3 6870M drivers from Dell's website. The good news is your Vantage score is beating out an R3 + Sandy Bridge system. Too bad Dell decided to screw us by not providing a proper upgrade and selling the R2 alongside the R3. They would have had a lot more happy customers and sales.

 

I tried the Device ID thing in RadeonPRO, didn't work. Also, the Dell and Clevo drivers won't install. Only the official mobility catalyst drivers work.

 

The Dell driver should install since you have the proper vbios now. If not, you likely need to mod the inf file slightly. You should see if the guys over at Guru3D (e.g. asdar) can help in that regard.

 

I'd love to see some gaming with fraps on with the r3 and 6970m. That's what I'm interested in.

 

I can probably do that tomorrow after work. I probably wont get anything up until like 18 hours from now though.

 

I put this together for another site ( T|I ) but figured I would post here for some referance to others that may want to do some benching. I'll need to rerun a lot of the benchmarks, but when I move into my new apartment, I may find some time.

DR650SE's Alienware M17x R2 Benchmarks.

GPU Benchmarks

5870M Dual GPU
3DMark Vantage: P19838 Marks
3DMark06: 23720 Marks
3DMark05: 31672 Marks
3DMark03: 80002 Marks
3DMark2001 SE: 50975 Marks
Unigine Heaven DX9: 1459.12 Marks
Unigine Heaven DX11: 927 Marks
AquaMark: 168065 Marks
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5870M Single GPU

3DMark Vantage: P11163 Marks
3DMark06: 18040 Marks
3DMark05: 27381 Marks
3DMark03: 50893 Marks
3DMark2001 SE: 52426 Marks
Unigine Heaven DX9: 1295.37 Marks
Unigine Heaven DX11: 466.95 Marks
AquaMark: 191609 Marks
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CPU Benchmarks

i7 940XM:
CPU-Z: 4261.03MHz
Pifast: 21.72sec
SuperPi 1M: 10.311sec
SuperPi 32M: 9Min 47.669sec
wPrime1024: 4Min 59.305sec
wPrime32: 6.958sec

i7 920XM
CPU-Z: 4248.15MHz
Pifast: 21.33sec
SuperPi 1M: 10.223sec
SuperPi 32M: 9Min 40.636sec
wPrime1024: 3Min 44.858sec
wPrime32: 6.599sec

i7 Q720M
CPU-Z: 3406.38MHz
Pifast: 26.16sec
SuperPi 1M: 12.449sec
SuperPi 32M: 11Min 17.821sec
wPrime1024: 6Min 39.918sec
wPrime32: 12.870sec

i5 540M
CPU-Z: 4102.03MHz
Pifast: 23.03sec
SuperPi 1M: 11.404sec
SuperPi 32M: 10Min 36.138sec
wPrime1024: 7Min 3.307sec
wPrime32: 13.221sec

i5 520M
CPU-Z: 3850.45MHz
Pifast: 24.98sec
SuperPi 1M: 12.448sec
SuperPi 32M: 11Min 26.697sec
wPrime1024: 8Min 18.406sec
wPrime32: 15.691sec
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Referance Clock Benchmark for M17x R2
178.35MHz on FSB of i5 540M

Full System Benches

PCMark04: 11364 Marks
PCMark05: 18577 Marks
PC Mark Vantage: 18181 Marks

 

Dang son....that is quite the list haha

 

Lol, I need to look over the list and see where I can pic up a few more HWbot points, and collect some more gold. I just recently ran a bunch and took aybe 7 of Johnksss' gold cups

 

3dMark06

STOCK ( http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15511469):

3DMark Score: 18674.0 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score: 7792.0
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 8036.0
CPU Score: 5666.0

AFTER HyperX 16GB + SSD + Clean Install ( http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15512058):

3DMark Score: 19692.0 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score: 8058.0
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 8646.0
CPU Score: 5955.0

3DMark11

STOCK ( http://3dmark.com/3dm11/803017):

3DMark Score: P3057
Graphics score: 2776
Physics Score: 6970
Combined Score: 2826

AFTER HyperX 16GB + SSD + Clean Install ( http://3dmark.com/3dm11/803979):

3DMark Score: P3105
Graphics score: 2825
Physics Score: 6997
Combined Score: 2852

Config: M17xR3 + 2820QM + AMD 6970M
Memory: 4GB DELL 2x2GB vs Kingston HyperX 4x4GB
Disk: 320GB DELL vs Patriot Memory Inferno 100GB (Sandforce SF-1200)
Clean Install: Windows 7 Ultimate + SP1
Dell Install: Original shipped from Dell. No service pack installs.
No other changes (XMP Profile 1 selected)

 

Windows Experience:

STOCK

7.5 7.5 7.6 7.6 5.9

After HyperX + SSD + Clean Install

7.5 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6

 

nice scores DR

 

John stopped fighting for 2 points at a time, he is working on world record desktop stuff with team PURE now lol

 

That works for me, I'm willing to pick up those two points. I'm still small time, or a big fish in a little pond.

 

I'm small time, but I still have like 170 points haha......should be able to get about 15-20 more too if I feel motivated....

 

I think I might be able to net a few more, depends on how my 5870-->5850 flash works out...

 

damn I was hoping someones 3DMark11 score would be alot better than mine which would indicate I just had a wrong setting.

 

Try the 11.4 beta drivers: http://www.mediafire.com/?zq5gmcvqt95najf

(you'll need Winrar to open)

 

I think used the wrong XMP Profile with the HyperX. With Profile #2 I'm getting Windows Experience of 7.8 for memory instead of 7.6.

I retested 3DMark06 and 3DMark11 and they didn't change much.

 

Before Beta 11.4 drivers
3DMark 11 - P3100 (1280 x 720)
- GPU Score: 2819
- Physics Score: 6980
- Combined Score: 2862

After Beta 11.4 drivers installed
3DMark 11 - P3135 (1280 x 720)
- GPU Score: 2843
- Physics Score: 7127
- Combined Score: 2934

I did have to reinstall windows yesterday (after the initial benchmarks) so these aren't 100% direct comparisons.

 

The windows tests are pretty limited....I would not base much off of them

 

My Windows Experience is at 5.9 due to the hard drive lol but the rest are 7.1 and above

 

Beta 11.4 drivers installed, XMP Profile 1
3DMark 11 - P3135 (1280 x 720)
- GPU Score: 2843
- Physics Score: 7127
- Combined Score: 2934

Beta 11.4 drivers installed, XMP Profile 2, Bus Freq: 99.80 MHz
3DMark 11 - P3147 (1280 x 720)
- GPU Score: 2846
- Physics Score: 7451
- Combined Score: 2939


Beta 11.4 drivers installed, XMP Profile 2, Bus Freq: 100 MHz
3DMark 11 - P3129 (1280 x 720)
- GPU Score: 2841
- Physics Score: 6978
- Combined Score: 2939

My numbers go +-15 points everytime I run it so the bus frequency makes no difference (already assumed this but just wanted to check).

 

Its interesting that the Laptop Mag review states they received over 20,000 in 3DMark06. I believe that was stock.

Any ideas why it would be higher than what others are seeing with the same config?

 

I get 19.3k and I'm not using an SSD yet. I'm not sure how much an SSD affects 3DMark06.

 

with minimal tweaks your score would easily go up

 

Speaking of which, what are ppl getting for WEI for the 2720QM? Also, what are folks getting for the 6970? I know these #'s dont really matter, but I just want to compare them to my dinodesktop LOLZ. 3.9 for cpu, and 3.6 for graphics and gaming graphics 5.1 for old ram, and 4.1 for primary hard disk

 

7.5 for 2720QM, 7.6 for 6970

 

See what I mean about WEI numbers not mattering. Cuz I KNOW that the 2720QM and 6970 are not ONLY 2times better than what I have. I'm certain that they're way more powerful than that. What's the WEI out of anyway? Is the max 10?

 

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