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    Difference between 3DMark06 and VirtualMark

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by sagittarius82, Jul 25, 2008.

  1. sagittarius82

    sagittarius82 Newbie

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    Hi,
    i bought a new XPS M1530 and ran the 3Dmark06 benchmark test i got a score of 4610, is it a good score for my configuration (in my signature)...

    also i ran VirtualMark test from the website and got a score of 3900,

    could someone please answer the following questions

    what is the difference between these two tests?

    why is there a huge difference between these two scores?

    please suggest some good action games for my system, i am new to gaming


    excuse my poor english
     
    sagittarius82, Jul 25, 2008
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  2. Clutch

    Clutch cute and cuddly boys

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    Like the diffrencre between 05 and 06. Just made and geared for higher power machines. You can look at the systems specs to run the tests.
     
    Clutch, Jul 25, 2008
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    ckh20051988 Notebook Consultant

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    Different softwares (including versions) are implemented differently. The scoring depends on the implementation. Therefore, the scores are different for different softwares. Make sense? So, it is pointless to compare scores from different benchmark software.
     
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