M17x Benchmarks thread !!!

Now you get to run all your game benchmarks over again. Aren't you psyched.

 

More than happy to if I can get a better Vantage score. That's what everyone really wants to see isn't it?

 

right now i'm not overclocked yet, my scores for these drivers were based around my stock testing. I put win 7 back on again and am currently optimizing it before oc'ing that included finding decent/better drivers that allowed the Hybrid SLI function to work.

 

I'm reaching 10.2K with or without OC'ing. Going back to Dox for now.

 

Only your wife cares about your epeen.

We, on the other hand, only want to know how well it plays Crysis.

 

lol. I still think I'm going to get better performance from the Dox drivers.

 

damn.... guess we are still stuck with no hybrid

 

i will do a quick oc on my end and see if i get the same results

 

Kcissem you were running Win7 when you lost your 50 points and Mandrake you were running Vista when you lost 1500?

 

I'm in Vista. I haven't tried loading Win 7 in a while. I have it on another disk if need be. I'm also going to re-run Vantage w/ Dox to make sure I'm not missing a setting.

 

Just because the dell driver get less points in vantage it doesn't means it will reflect in games.

You play vantage?, i don't

 

not sure what your issue is mandrake, but i scored a 11,111 in vantage (CPU is NOT overclocked, only the gpu are clocked to my sig settings below). definately around a 1k improvement for me over my stock tests

edit: will now over clock my cpu back to sig settings and see if i can beat by best

 

I have my clocks set higher. hmmm....

 

Did you remember to still disable the 9400 during testing?

 

I never turned it back on and I checked the bios and it's still off.

 

No issues with Dox, new record for me.

 

Maybe that's the difference? Kcissem is running with the 9400M enabled again I believe.

 

well whatever you do, with the 186.12 dell drivers it seems it causes issues if you tell the system tools to load settings upon boot, it locks up everytime with oc settings upon login, this may be a win 7 issue though

 

I have mine loading on boot in Vista w/no issues.

 

that tells me it's a win 7 issue, not the drivers/tools

 

i already told you guys the 185.20 drivers would not be easy to install, but once installed...tey will do wonders for vantagemark.

you have to do have disk method
do one card and watch it crash (worse case senario)
reboot, now one driver is installed..go do have disk again for the second card.
it should take on it's own or get the famous black screen...
wait about 45 seconds then power off.
reboot and both drivers should show in device manager.

this is one way..depends all on what you can see in your device manager...

 

It loads with no issues. Just the colors are distorted. Will your method change that?

Slowly getting closer...

 

im guessing that is with dox right?

 

yes.

10 char.

 

yea he went back

 

yea i figured that i was just making sure

 

well we know the 280ms worked very well with them...

when you say color...can you give me a screen shot of what it is you see or saw...

matter of fact...using them drivers to move up the desktop ranks at hwbot now... ...from 26 to 16th no physx...

 

I don't have the drivers loaded right now. Can anyone else describe it better?

 

I tried it your way, it still has the same issues as it did with the other methods, the color is all distorted.

 

distorted meaning...
2 bit color
4 bit color
8 bit color
16 bit color
using the correct monitor
both cards are enabled
correct sli mode

 

My 2 year old wanted to see the "dragon"...here are the results.



I'm having good runs tonight. Too bad I have to put the kids to bed soon.

 

No much worse. Almost like a rainbow affect with pastel colors. Very psychedelic.

 

man, those are top knotch runs to say the least! both world records with a dual core..

No much worse. Almost like a rainbow affect with pastel colors. Very psychedelic. <--yeah, that's not much to go on there....

 

What can I say I'm a tech, not very artistic with my words.

 

Everything becomes green and palet of green. Also there are horizontal lines on the screen. It is almost like getting your screen wallpaper from the washer where you forgot your new green towel.

 

hmmmm, ok...boot up in safe mode and tell me what you see...

 

I've tried that and it comes up in 8-bit color.

 

when you tried it...did you check to see that the 185.20 driver was loaded for all 3 cards?

 

That 06 run is very impressive (highest dual core). But Vantage GPU is definitely going to favor dual cores over quad cores (seeing as they can get higher clock speeds, thus bottlenecking the GPUs less). I'm sure a W90 would get around that score too using a dual core config.

 

I did not check and I have my 9400M disabled.

I just ran Crysis on high. I could get very high to run.

6/29/2009 8:38:48 PM - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 1920x1080, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=1, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: High
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 42.31s, Average FPS: 47.27
Min FPS: 31.51 at frame 1946, Max FPS: 63.22 at frame 983
Average Tri/Sec: -29014114, Tri/Frame: -613805
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.49
TimeDemo Play Ended, (1 Runs Performed)
==============================================================

Completed All Tests

<><><><><><><><><><><><><>>--SUMMARY--<<><><><><><><><><><><><><>

6/29/2009 8:38:48 PM - Vista 64

Run #1- DX10 1920x1080 AA=No AA, 64 bit test, Quality: High ~~ Last Average FPS: 47.27

 

there are a bunch of dual cores over there running now. didn't one get up to 11.4? or was that a quad?

also...like about 400 pages back in that thread..i told people with quads to run them in dual core mode as well....guess it got lost in the shuffle...

but in the end..it doesn't matter for gpu score..only cpu scoring. i think it makes up 15 percent of the total score though. (speculation from what i have tested and found out)(talking about the gpu portion only)

 

alright dell's 186.12 drivers still need some work, while they seem to run fine stock, any amount of oc'ing tends to lock the system up. back to dox182.46 as well

 

What I mean is the stock clocks of the dual cores gives it the advantage, rather than simply the CPU being a dual core or a quad core. For instance, Mandrake's system has an X9100 at 3.06ghz stock. Kcissem's system has a QX9300 which runs at 2.53ghz stock. Whichever method they used to up the ante, they're now at 3.45ish ghz and 3.06ghz respectively. Although the latter has more cores to potentially handle more tasks, the former is clocked higher, allowing things to run faster and thus, reducing the bottleneck on the cards.

Although the nVidia cards aren't as bottlenecked/dependent on the CPU like the ATi cards seem to be, there is a bottleneck, but a relatively small one. This could explain the difference in scores of the two systems.

Mugenski's system was a quad core (QX9300 running at 3.33ghz). The GPUs were clocked at 600/900 (core/memory). But as we seen with the relationship between CPU speed and GPU performance/GPU vantage score on the W90, a T9600 under the same conditions would probably get a higher score (along with further increasing the core/memory clocks).

As for the GTX 280ms, I still don't know if the cores are overvolted (relative to the 9800m series). If if isn't and it's due to the smaller die, then that would help you easily stride past that 12k mark.

 

looks like the 280m is finally starting to come out of the closet...47 fps on high is pretty dammn good...i think i was getting like 45 with mine.

 

he unlocked his cards...he was at like 690/960(not exact, but higher than 600/900 or something like that. that's how he got to 11.4. at least that's what he said and posted.

no matter these cards should hit 12.5 when it's said and done.

 

Here is my crysis benchmark results 64 bit 260SLI with t9600 (no OCing whatsoever). Plus some programs in background if that matters.

6/29/2009 10:06:22 PM - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 1900x1200, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: Custom
Custom Quality Values:
VolumetricEffects=High
Texture=High
ObjectDetail=VeryHigh
Sound=High
Shadows=High
Water=High
Physics=High
Particles=High
Shading=High
PostProcessing=High
GameEffects=High
==============================================================
TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 84.70s, Average FPS: 23.61
Min FPS: 16.80 at frame 1946, Max FPS: 41.61 at frame 1750
Average Tri/Sec: -11409126, Tri/Frame: -483153
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.90
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 56.72s, Average FPS: 35.26
Min FPS: 16.80 at frame 1946, Max FPS: 42.22 at frame 1748
Average Tri/Sec: -16891220, Tri/Frame: -479075
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.91
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 57.25s, Average FPS: 34.94
Min FPS: 16.80 at frame 1946, Max FPS: 42.22 at frame 1748
Average Tri/Sec: -16759563, Tri/Frame: -479730
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.91
TimeDemo Play Ended, (3 Runs Performed)
==============================================================

Completed All Tests

<><><><><><><><><><><><><>>--SUMMARY--<<><><><><><><><><><><><><>

6/29/2009 10:06:22 PM - Vista 64

Run #1- DX10 1900x1200 AA=No AA, 64 bit test, Quality: Custom ~~ Overall Average FPS: 35.1

 

6/29/2009 10:06:22 PM - Vista 64
Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu
DX10 1900x1200, AA=No AA, Vsync=Disabled, 64 bit test, FullScreen
Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9
Global Game Quality: Custom
Custom Quality Values:
VolumetricEffects=High
Texture=High
ObjectDetail=VeryHigh
Sound=High
Shadows=High
Water=High
Physics=High
Particles=High
Shading=High
PostProcessing=High
GameEffects=High

nah, that's a custom config...you would need to run all very high or all high....
to many people knit picking the details...nice run though!!

 

bah..fine i will do both. It was set like that for some reason.

 

trust me, it was 600/900 or at least around that. I helped him troubleshoot the program (GPU tool).If it were anywhere near 690/960, that system would have been well over 12k, probably in the high 12k range. Plus, W90 owners are having trouble hitting 650 core without the GPUs failing. I know Vicious had a 11.4k score with his GPUs well over the 600/900 mark with a Q9000 @ 2.7/2.75?

 

well, then it looks good for both gpus. nice!