*OFFICIAL* "All Powerful" M15x Benchmark Thread Part 2

Hmm, Friday night benching... I was able to boost my score considerably

4k 3dMark11:

 

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Very nice. Clicking right along with the R3's.

 

Thank you! Indeed... if only my GPU could clock as high as Inaps...

 

wow awesome run svl, i pretty much hit the wall with benching already since you can't up the voltage at all, which suck, just end up get lower scores with higher clocks. but check out this vantage run.

 

Thanks you!

Hahaha... yeah, read about this at T|I... it's a quad sli 580 setup when I remember correctly... insane overkill, too much awesomeness

Anyway, I like the M15x keeping up with the M17x R3 It's too bad we can't overvolt!!

 

haha i drooled over those numbers too. yeah no overvolting is a real bummer. i think i did all i can with the 6970, prolly wait till a new driver or something magical before i start benching again.

 

Yeah... I think I can still score a little higher when I'm a bit lucky, but I don't think I can reach your score. I wonder what your score would be with a 2920xm... I assume this would boost the combined test a bit.

 

from what i've seen at ti, things are not looking too hot for the 2920 in an r3. tdp values are locked so throttle stop can't really do much this time around.

 

Ahh, yes... you're right. I'm so used to Throttlestop and my 920xm I always forget that that's not the standard situation... Locking everything when selling unlocked extreme processors just doesn't make sense.

 

Nice score! That cards a beast!

 

how's this score for the 460&740qm?

 

Pretty good start, you beat the GPU score of widezu69, nice!! Seems the newer drivers perform better... your clocks were lower than his.

You can try pushing the GPU a bit more, or did you already hit the roof?

 

Nice score! My 460m throttled because I had a 920xm. I checked the GPUz logs. Nice score though. You can push the mem to 1500 (or 750 on GPUz) without losing stability I think.

 

Hmm, now that's weird... it shouldn't throttle at all during the vantage tests... there's no combined test. I was able to crank up both 920xm and 6970m without any issues or throttling... at least I think so, will check next time I do some benching.

 

tried one run with 270.61 driver but only managed 8750... so i'll stick to 267.76 Tried pushing to 805/1610 but crashes...

 

That's the thing ATi cards have been known never to throttle despite your processor setting. My nvidia cards do. Both of them, the 260m and the 460m. Even a non-cpu or gpu heavy game like Blops. CPU heavy games like GTA4 never throttled.

 

Ok, this sucks, seriously... didn't know, thanks! No fix at all?? Is this M15x specific or do other systems have this problem as well? Does this happen no matter which setting you use in TS? (underclocking...)

It can't be a power issue... I wonder what's causing this.

 

The 11.5a Hotfix drivers (8.850.6) provide a small kick in 3dMark11.

3dMark11: P3169 (5850m @ 925/1125 + 920xm)

Result

 

Nice score man...I think you are using a Clevo card right because dells card is undervolted and it can never go beyond 750 core frequency. And I agree with 267.76, it's the best driver for 460Ms out there..great job benching it.

Ya, a OCd 460M and a OCd 940/920 XM are a really bad combination..it throttles a lot and results in a very bad score overall. I concur. No matter what setting you put in Throttlestop,the score never plays nice because of power bottlenecking. Too bad for us nVidia users and on top of that, Dell's card is undervalued to 0.9 Volts and it can never go past 750MHz in the core. That's sucks because there is a lot of headroom for temp because it never goes beyond 65 deg while overclocked. Damn DELL and their sick games.

 

mine's from Dell

 

Wow, then you got a cream of a card. Mine behaves badly after 750 core frequency. Your card is seriously good. Congrats and break some records.

 

Excellent score Rev!!
I guess I'll have to do some runs as well... haven't benched with 11.5 yet.

 

increased gpu score a lil bit )


if i get it over 9000 i'll be satisfied

 

Nice! You can probably push the memory up a bit. Keep going, chase that 9k!

 

great scores guys! keep it up

 

Great one, Inap.

 

Well I just benched my new M15x with some light overclocking and here are my 3dMark06 scores. Post them up on the leader board please.

 

Nice! But you can push it harder I guess... I can't really read the numbers in the screenshot... What were your CPU settings?

You'll need to PM DangeGRClose and send him the link to your post if you want the scores updated.

 

I didnt push the CPU that hard cause ive popped a psu once already I will push further when my 230w psu come in. What are you guys using to take these screen shots?

 

Ok. Fortunately my PSU is still alive, even though I pushed it to 180W sometimes

I use the print screen button and then paste it in Paint or whatever image processing application you have around.

 

I think I talked to you about my psu before. I believe i went over 200w on the original and it just stopped working but i was luck it didnt totaly destroy it. just had to unplug it and then plug it back in.

 

These DELL PSUs can definitely take a beating huh?

 

you can also use the built in windows snipping tool, to do your screen shots.

 

comparison between intel 320 series vs g2

 

Cool. Is this with or without tweaks applied?

 

been to lazy to do any tweaks but i'm happy with the speeds so far. have you seen any big performance boost with the tweaks or mods?

 

I've tried the stamatisx tweak... it's nice for benching as it boosts your score a bit, but I don't think it makes a huge difference in normal usage. Also it did cause some problems from time to time (locked my multi on a low level) and it causes more heat.

I'm very happy with my drive, no tweaks necessary imo. What I did was disabling hibernate as it gives you some more GB and some similar system adjustments.

Here some numbers with the tweak enabled:


And here some standard scores:

 

The JJB tweaks increased 4K read and write performance on my G2, very little effect on the other segments. The StamatisX tweak gave me no appreciable boost, while increasing CPU activity and temps noticeably (can't remember specifics). It also disabled Turboboost in some instances, but not on mine. I removed it almost immediately. Even though the differences can be statistically meaningful, IMO there is very little real world look and feel difference given the overall speed and responsiveness of the SSD. I still use the JJB tweaks occasionally (only applies in High Performance mode on mine, which I rarely use except for benching).

 

thanks guys, i'll prolly keep it the ways it is. its fast enough for me anyways.

man the drive i bought was only booted up 7 times, but had 21 tb of writes, hehehe holy hell. but drive health still 100% and he gave me some more discounts so i took it. he didn't expect me to plop it in my laptop to test it, hahaha

 

Well thanks to Inap here is a better attachment of my benchmark. keep in mind i wont push my cpu too far cause ive popped a PSU already pushing it.

 

So is this with the CPU at stock?

 

That's a nice score, you should do a Vantage test. I have a feeling that you'll surpass 9k GPU points with those clocks!

 

No I was running the cores at 25 with throttlestop and it was holding. maybe I should try to push to push it alittle more while its on my AC unit.

 

yeah thats a really awesome 06 run. like widezu said time to vantage that bad boy.

 

I managed a 91?? score but forgot to save the screen shot and that was without throttle stop but with tstop i was throttling bad and managed a 8900 score

 

TPD?
I never really used 3dM06... but in vantage for example you never have a combined load. You can't get 150W during the GPU tests with your card, and during the CPU test I had about 160-170W peak for a moment, but only with some hardcore TS settings.

 

Nice runs. Let's see some 3dMark11 and 3dMarkVantage scores at those settings.

 

Doing one right now without tstop now.

 

Some benches with 11.5 drivers, like The Rev said it seems to help a bit...

Here we go... 3dMark11:




And vantage:



Had a hard time with vantage... crashed my system a lot, I have no idea why. Didn't manage to get the CPU as high as in the last run I posted, but the GPU improved a bit, as well as the overall score.