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    how to read 3dmark vantage score

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by chemicalx, Dec 18, 2011.

  1. chemicalx

    chemicalx Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have looked at a few 3dmark vantage benchmark around and started to get confused about the score.
    Can scores from different versions (1.01, 1.02, 1.10) be comparable to each others ?
    On the same version, what is the score scale for the GPU/CPU ?
    I noticed that on the 1.02, same system (let say G73sw/G53sw), same settings (performance preset) few benchmarks give CPU ~17000, the others give CPU ~35000 (2 pic below) :eek: this is what get me confused.
    Anyone have any idea ?
     

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    The one most people look at is GPU score. Since Vantage was biased towards Nvidia products.

    People now use 3DMark11 because it's less biased towards Nvidia even though the tessellation is still Nvidia biased. But it doesn't use Nvidia exclusive technology like PhysX like Vantage does.

    If you want to benchmark, use games instead. Doesn't matter how high or low your Vantage or 3DMark11 score is, all that matters is how well does it perform in games and the applications you actually use. (Adobe _l_, still biased towards Nvidia with CUDA, jerks).
     
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    I have an ATI JH and love it but its not Nvidias fault there R&D division for pro apps like the adobe suite and 3d is FAR more advanced then ATI.

    ATI is a great gaming gpu but Nvidia will always be used for pros. Its funny how its an ati in the 360 but all 360 games are made on nvidia GPU's :)
     
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    This is just rubbish.
     
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    It may be that the earlier version was not tweaked to utilise the CPU to its maximum by multithreading.

    On the latest version you should be seeing around 17-19k on the CPU I see 20-21k with mine. My JH when overclocked to 800/1100 and my 920XM installed was hitting around 10k overall but the majority of that was the CPU hitting 20k also, you should be seeing around 8-9k overall at stock make sure you are running at full throttle and have nothing hindering the performance.
     
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    uhm..I don't know that overclocked GPU can affect the CPU score :) or you mean overclock your CPU :eek:
     
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    You cannot overclock the SB CPU unless its an XM model I was referring to my 1st Gen CPU but you can overclock the GPU and you should really be seeing a better score than what you have if its the SW with the 192 bit 460M.

    If it is the 128bit GPU that could be why.
     
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