3Dmark06 - wtf?

Ok, I expected my score, I ranked at 2800, which is what my card is noted for performing at.

but wtf, 30,000 is the highest score?

Does a personal computer even exist that can attain this kind of score? if so? What is it?

My system, in my unprofessional, yet educated opinion should rank in class among the mid-high rank computers.

Meaning, geting better then what I have is mostly for purposes of extreme gaming or business applications (Such as 3D professional art, etc)

In other words, It doesn't get much better than this and I suspect that even the most powerful personal computers in the world don't score higher than 10,000 on 3Dmark06

So what gives?

 

Put a few 8800 Ultras in SLI, completely optimize them for 3DMark, cool them with liquid nitrogen, and OC so that it burns straight through the floor.

 

uh,

high end desktops routinely go over 20k

in fact, users here in this form have rigs that achieve 10k+ all the time

all you need is Q6600 and 8800gts 512mb

EDIT: Lithus, i'm pretty sure the 1st rank 3dmark users are using the ati gpus. ati optimized them for 3dmark and they get insane scores even though in real life games they preform worse than the 8800s

 

If you OC the cpu until your reach 5.5 on a quad cores, meaning roughly 22 ghz of processing power an 2 ati x2900 oced beyond redemption,that is what you get

Btw, not even those dudes can play crysis on max, so 3dmark score doesn`t really mean much over 10 000 points.

 

P.s. Some where in here is a joke for 'ITS OVER 9000!?"

but I can't figure out where to put it..



Basically what you're saying Lithus, Is...It would be over kill?

I want some one with the cash to do that, and see what score they got..Seriously, I wanna see some one score higher than 15,000 with 3dmark06...I bet it isn't possible.

 

I see..

(You guys posted before I saw that you did...)

Still..Thats insanity.

Lol..

 

A single 8800 Ultra gets 11K with 4x AA, while 8800 GTX with 4x AA gets around 9600, and these score s are pretty much average or even slightly lower than average.

Besides there are probably, wait I mean definitely someone somewhere who has the money to sli or triple sli Ultras. Thus making 10K a very reachable target.

EDIT: DANG IT ppl beat me to it, I need to type faster. xD

 

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6422.html

^Exactly what I said.

 

Lithus,
That's crazy!
I wonder how far into the future it has to be for laptop to have that kind of performance with single card.

 

As stated, desktops can easily achieve a score of 10,000.

 

A mobile 8600GS card is no where near mid-high rank hardware. Considering there are much more powerful desktop cards, SLi and insane overclocking and phase cooling, your card/score of 2800 is nothing.

 

Thread and laptop of be77solo

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=214931

upgraded to T9300 processor 2.5GHz

Dual SLi 8600M GT's overclocked scores around 9702 on 3dmark06

i have the same laptop but T7500 processor with stock drivers and i get 6700 on 3dmark06. if i install 169.09 drivers i shud b hitting the 7000 mark.

 

3dmark is overrated anyway...real world gaming tests are far more reliable.

 

no, opinions are overrated. that's why we use standardized benchmarks

 

with a core 2 extreme qx9650 oc to 4ghz, 3 8800 gpu, a physics ageia, 8 gb of ram ddr3 clocked at 1333, a 1500 power supply and a 3000 dollars going to the light bill im sure 3dmark can reach 29,998 lol

edit: desktop obviously

 

Oh please don't tell me you actually believe that these so called "standardized benchmarks" are 100% accurate and reliable.

 

Well Crap.

Apparently I am horribly, Drastically, Hidiously mistaken.

*sigh*

Why do I suddenly get the feeling I got when I was in highschool with all the rednecks with all their huge duelly trucks and guns and huge obnoixious hats.

 

Yea but that test was done at 1280x800 and not 1280x1024, which is the standard around here.

 

I don't know. Were you constantly horribly, drastically, hideously mistaken about stuff back then?

 

That'd look weird, *800 is widescreen format

 

i don't think they're 100% accurate and reliable. i'm just saying it's more accurate and reliable than opinions and personal biases. meaning "my 8600GT runs oblivion absolute max without hiccups" isn't very convincing for me that's all.

 

Sometimes I was, Sometimes I wasn't. I think you missed the joke, either way =p

It wasn't very well told so...that is probably why...

 

What would look weird? 3DMark? It's not about looks, it's about the final score. Anyways, the image scales properly; it doesn't appear stretched.

The problem with benching at 1280x800 is that you get a much higher score than with 1280x1024 and most people DO NOT indicate that they bench at a lower resolution. Then, newbie with a new computer runs 3DMark06 and wonders why his/her score is 1000 points lower than somebody else's with the same specs because newbie doesn't realize that he/she ran 3DMark at a higher resolution.

I understand some people have 1280x800 resolution screens and can't bench at a resolution higher than 1280x800 without an external monitor, but they need to clearly and visibly indicate that their scores are at a lower resolution than most people run.

 

ideally, game benchmarks would be used to compare video cards. a variety of game benches will really map the best picture of one card vs another. its not a matter of opinion if you can do it systematically and scientifically.

3dmark is the easy way out of doing the real benchmark work, its not perfect, and sometimes it doesn't match up to the real results well. i think that was the opinion people were trying to express. its not about 3dmark scores, its about game performance. you might find some correlation between the two, but it could be better.

 

It's to bad video card specs can't like, be posted up and compared accuratly.

I wonder why that is. I mean, at the end of the line, Arn't the raw number of pipelines and clock core speeds and Vram going to effect the end result?

it just seems silly to me that a company is able to make a profit and become as popular as 3Dmark has over the simple aspect of testing a persons video card for them, when, with a little research one can learn the exact specifications of the video card, which REALLY SHOULD tell you, in comparison, wether or not a video card is better than another.

I don't get it...

 

It might also be that the architectures of nvidia's graphics cards are different than ati's graphics cards, and because of this, the number of shader clocks, etc. might mean different things if youre looking at ati or nvidia.

 

Oh..I guess I never thought about that.

D'oh

>.<


p.s.
RE: Your Signature

sager laptops = alienware - (hugecost + logo)

 

Here is my 3DMark06 at 1280x800 on my Gateway Bestbuy special. + T9300 and OC. http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14938&stc=1&d=1202348646
2008-02-01_151649. http://forum.notebookreview.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14939&stc=1&d=1202348875
2008-02-01_151803.pngpng Paid $1250+ T9300.

 

did you upgrade the processor on the FX?

i only get 5k on my 7950gtx

 

=t9300 ......

 

Yeah, put in a Penryn T9300 2.5ghz 6mb L2. With the stock 1.66 cpu it ran 7100, with T9300 8578, with T9300 + OC 9810.

 

Wow, I am really surprised.

My desktop with an OCed E6600 + single 8800GTX gets around 12,000 in 3DMark06. I can OC the 8800GTX to get 13k+ easily.

 

Keep in mind that Snowsurfer is benching at 1280x800 while you're benching at 1280x1024.