I have 6990m cfx already but...

Yes, i know i asked for a new drivers from Dell. In fact mine (factory drivers) are not even in the download section..
Sorry for the delay, im meeting a girl, for this reason I spend less time here, jeje.

Im going to pass mark's test, but you have to tell me how can i make a crysis test, which program gives me a average framerate?

 

Here's the latest leaked AMD driver, not officially released yet:

[email protected]

Just ignore the warnings during installation.


Hanging out with a girl is a good reason for, apology accepted
There's a benchmark test integrated in Crysis as far as I know... I never used pass mark, but vantage and 3dM11 would be very interesting single card benchmarks.

 

Copy that,here you have the first bench of a single card.

3d mark11 AMD Radeon HD 6970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P3445 3DMarks

And the temps

 

Ok, great!! Thanks a lot, +rep if allowed. Hope you can post a vantage as well when you find time.

Now I have to search a stock 6970m 3dM11 score, seems I have deleted mine... or just run it myself

 

So what's with the error? Is this not a good card?

Your Score is Low Compared to Similar Systems.
There may be a problem

 

Here the results of 3dmark vantage
AMD Radeon HD 6970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P14051 3DMarks

and the temps

 

I dunno, its strange but I think are a good scores.


One question, if a single card give me 2 points(for example) cfx suppose have to be 2+2=4points?

 

@Koelle,

The GPU score for the '11 is right on par with the 580M - no bad surprises here!

 

Aikimox, is strange,

3dmark11 single 3445, cfx 6441, not 3445 x 2 = 6890 ¿? -could be drivers problem?

Its possible to choose wich card is working? or the system choose the same always?

And how you see the temps?

 

isnt the 580 inflated due to physix ? or is that only vantage ?

 

AMD Radeon HD 6970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P21777 3DMarks

Here's my first one. Everything stock so far.

 

Welcome to club, are two 6990?

 

2+2 doesn't =4 when it comes to gpu's sadly. More like 2+2=3.3

 

performance is 2 + 2 = 3.4 but price 2+2 = 4.5 (and in spain 5.4 for the pairy dollar=euro)

 

and dont forget the harder to get discounts in EU vs US

 

AMD Radeon HD 6970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2820QM Processor,Alienware M18xR1 score: P6261 3DMarks

Second one... Let me verify the shaders via gpu-z

 

Thnx, can you post a capture of gpuz?

 

Hey CD

What's the build spec's on your new machine?

Thanks

 

thnx Yes, you have the same as me (6990m), the driver should be 8.851.2.0, isnt it?

 

Mine arrived today as well.

Here's Vantage, 2720qm (haven't put in my ES yet) all stock dual 6990s running on 11.7b:

22591

Edit: A bit disappointing since my x7200 with an i7-960 and dual GTX 485s hammered this score at stock with 24,000+

 

Is almost the same score with drivers from dell. Mine 22511

 

Do you happen to know where I can find the stock 6990 drivers from Dell? I reinstalled Windows on an SSD as soon as it arrived and, strangely, the package didn't come with the usual driver CD.

 

If you create a dvd restore, the same dvd restores the m18x to factory settings, including video drivers, but if you want I can find in my computer and upload for you.

 

Temps after 45 minutes playing metro 2033 all up. Frames doesnt fall from 40. (except 2 scenes, at the hall and the pursuit , 30 fps)

 

Damnit. It looks like they run quite a bit hotter than the 6970's. Right? I'm not that tech savvy, but aren't those temps pretty crappy? Especially with no overclock?

 

Playing metro for 45mins at max those temps aren't bad ...

 

No, I obtained hotter temps in metro with the 6970, the shaders.

 

I read that 85C is as high as you should be comfortable with for GPU temps. And he's @ 93C it looks like on one of the GPUs. I guess I was misinformed? And overclocking the 6990's will probably put it up a few more degrees, no?

 

I see. Well that makes me feel better about my choice, then.

 

Pretty much identical to the 580m that was posted by a M17xR3 owner (14000). Nice the cards are so similar, to bad the Nvidia is so expensive.

Generic VGA video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor,Alienware M17xR3 score: P14072 3DMarks

BUT when you compare the GPU scores, the 580m is better, 13242 vs. 12675 for the 6990m. Pretty close though.

 

You had a desktop CPU in your x7200, this inflates your score. You need to compare the GPU scores only. 23k vantage GPU is pretty nice for stock clocks.

Well, powerful cards usually run hot, that's not crazy, they can handle pretty much. But of course more heat stresses the card harder. I guess this can be improved a lot with a repaste and maybe even more with a retention clip mod if this is possible.

 

I'll agree that desktop chips can tend to inflate scores, but the i7-960 gets raped by the Sandy-Bridge mobile chips. My 2920xm stomps my friends' 4Ghz 950. Also, was that 24,000+ score with physx enabled?

 

Mines currently with local carrier should be here within 12 hours i'll post some SLI 580M results and base internal pictures soon to compare for future buyers!

 

Mind doing some overclocking results as well?

 

My 6990's will be here in a few hours, as well. I'd like to overclock and compare to bar-code's results if he's down for that.

 

Gawd...it will be like a shoot out at the O.K Corral here soon.....

 

heheeheh I sure can't wait for it! Finally the main event is about to kick off.

Get in there Stevie FIGHT FIGHT!!! I want to jump in too lol!

Time to see if they can get anywhere close to your score Stevie. They will have to OC thats for sure to match your score! Awesome score btw Stevie! Hopefully with the next AMD driver you will surpass your 8k mark.

Cheers.

 

Hey Hey LOL ! NP your on!! :0) Looks like we will have our own review to compare!!

 

Hahahahaha......"seconds out.....round 1"......ding ding... "FIGHT"

Im looking forward to just spectating this time around Chief!

 

As far as overclocking goes, I can push them to 870 core/2080 memory and run stable. 880/2120 fails. So, looks like they OC around the same as an above-average 6970 (at least these particular chips do).

Would be interested hearing others OC limits.

 

Remember the X7200 has a desktop chipset and the PCI's are running at X16 on the M18 the PCI's are limited to X8

 

Have you run Benchies with those clocks ???

Would be nice to see them, with GPU-Z temps as well ... ???

 

Yes, the last Vantage run I did at those speeds was 23386 (only about 700pts over my stock scores). I think I'm CPU limited at this point... will be putting in my 2920xm tonight.

Didn't have time to check temps thoroughly before work, but highest I saw was 86c - strange because my GPUs seem to idle around 62c.

 

so is that better than the 580m?

 

My baby has landed.

I don't know much about benching. So, whichever benches you guys want me to run, just let me know and I'll do it. Then I'll OC and rerun them.

 

According to what I've seen the 580m is ever so slightly faster than the 6990. See my post above. Its still to early to tell.

 

3dMarkVantage is the most popular benchmark here is seems. A single card run would be best (one GPU disabled), single card lets us isolate the GPU performance better. After that I think people would like to see an overclocked singlecard Vantage run. 820/1100 would be a good easy OC. The free version of 3Dmarkvantage has no settings to change, so it is easy to do. Also you can post the link to the results easily.
Thanks for helping.

 

Okay. Downloading the free edition now.

I'll do single GPU, single GPU overclocked to those values, and Crossfire OC'd at those values.

 

Which graphics drivers do you have?