7970M benchmark results (ONLY)

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Fellow 7970M owners how do you flash the vbios. My particular card is set to 1.1V and I need to flash it back to 1V or 0.975V. I have the Vbios patcher RC1 tool from slv7 but am unsure which method to use to actually go about flashing the vbios. It has been a while since I have done it.

Cheers all.

 

Check what device manager says. Mines say they are all on 2.30Ghz, not one 3.3Ghz. Don't we have 8 of them?

 

you can follow this guide here written by svl7 himself.
[GUIDE] AMD VBIOS flashing

 

These are my 3Dmark 11 and Vantage scores.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM score: P5711 3DMarks

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM score: P20016 3DMarks

The Physics score does look a bit less. Though the total scores seems to be fine. Again the GPU score in Vantage seems a bit low.

 

Chears !!

 

My card is still stock with no OC yet.

PCMark Vantage:
P21463 3DMarks with AMD Radeon HD 7970M(1x) and Intel Core i7-3720QM

3DMark 11:
P5901 3DMarks with AMD Radeon HD 7970M(1x) and Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor

 

One more question. With no official drivers out yet. What drivers are you guys using? Where to get them?

 

8.951.6.0

This is the driver that came with the system so I haven't dug around for another yet.

 

If AMD got there act together and released a good crossfire driver out for the 7970m I might make the jump to a 7970m card!

Just waiting for a driver before I make the jump and post my own benchmarks.

 

These are 12.7 beta drivers that have leaked. They seem to have better gaming performance but seem to reduce benchmarks by a few pts. I too am using the same.

AMD Catalyst 12.7 BETA (8.981.2 June 12) - Guru3D.com Forums

In case you have issues with the above drivers I ed suggest you to use these 12.5 mod drivers that seem to be the best alternative.

http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-8-97-18-april-7900-mod

 

Ok after a few days of testing i can safely say that these drivers improve gaming across the board on pretty much everything.

Granted theres a good drop in 3dmark11 scores, about 200ish, but the gain i have in games makes up for it.
In particular i tested (with 930/1450 clocks):

- Dead Rising 2 off the record: it used to drop frames to 15fps even with low settings, now even with blur enabled and 8x aa it keeps FPS above 50. If i disable blur, since AMD drivers have the nice feature of having it implemented, it keeps framerates within 50-60fps

- Alice Madness Returns now runs much like it did on my desktop GTX570. With Physx on max it drops framerates tp 45fps, on medium it keeps pretty much 50-55fps all the time. Apart from that, unlocking the framerate skyrockets the fps above 90fps if you set maxsmoothframerate to 150fps.

- Rage is playable much like it iused to be on my previous desktop GTX570. Im forcing texture resolution thru config file since in game texture option seems borked. Anyway maxed out 8xAA with 60fps. There are some artifacts when looking to the sun glare, but since its a leaked driver which is still in beta, i cant complain.

- Battlefield 3 got a nice boost. Ultra with PostAA ultra and 1080p with clocks 930/1450, pretty much 45-90fps in the maps i played with pau1ow last night. It used to drop below 40fps, but the average has raised quite considerably.

- Shift 2 unleashed has got a nice boost in framerates as well. Game is maxed out without AA since im using SMAA injector. It used to stay around 50-55fps in daylight races with 15 cars starting from last position (london track), now it starts from 61fps.

- I cant disable Skyrim Vsync even in config file, anyway Ultra Settings is 60fps all the time, except when it streams the world which takes 2 fps hit for a split second. I tried to look down the stairs from Dragon Reach and i got 55-58 fps without no stuttering.
Also im using a good amount of mods, namely HD texture pack and enhanced HD textures.

These are so far what ive tested, i may test more in the future. However AMD is doint things right seems and this is the first time, so far, i didnt had a crappy driver lol
Hope u guys appreciate my tests.
Good work none the less!

 

I seem to get a better 3dmark11 score on the 12.7 beta than the stock clevo driver. This are at stock clock speeds.

stock driver:
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P5798 3DMarks
12.7 driver:
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3610QM Processor,CLEVO P15xEMx score: P5811 3DMarks

On Bf3 I still didn't get any performance gains, it might feels like it stays longer in the 40-60 FPS range but at times still goes down to 25 FPS. I looked at afterburner graphs and when I was getting 25 FPS the GPU usage % was at 44%, this was when I was gaming and not at the respawn page or at paused. When I overclock the GPU usage stays mostly at 50-60% but still drops down to 40 at times.

 

I have used the 12.5 modded drivers but still cannot see the temp of the card or voltage..

 

The 12.7 isn't even for 7970m is it? It's for all amd cards in general. AMD needs to hurry up with the official 7970m drivers, it's making me and a lot of people regret going back to AMD cards. My GTX 560m was playing BF3 at 1080p medium settings no AA overclocked to 900/1450 and was getting a steady 45-50 FPS... on 7970m no matter what setting it still bounces around 25-60 FPS. Debating if I should return my P150em and replace with another one with 680m, same performance but stable FPS and no complicated driver installations, less stress.

 

How about the 12.7 beta drivers? They seem to be the best drivers as for now. I would suggest you try them once and revert in case you have issues. Seeing that yours is an Alienware I doubt you would have issues. A few of the Clevo users did have issues but I am guessing they are user mistakes rather than the drivers in itself.

 

12.7 beta driver for clevo's will only work when you have stock clevo drivers and then you only install the 12.7 DRIVER on "custom install" If I install using express for 12.7 beta it will say it won't recognize the 7970m card.

 

The fans run really quiet and even so the air coming out the back is very cool. The 6990M was much hotter. Still though I want temp support lol

I will try the 8.97 drivers. I bought this card already voltmodded to 1.1V and set to 900/1300 plus it is Dell QS. I hope this isn't the reason...

 

Y not just get HWMonitor and chk the temps during your sessions

 

I have HWinfo64 installed and just ran it and the screen went black while it loaded. Just had to hard restart

 

Well that is really odd and sad Give it a 2nd shot?

 

Just downloading the 8.98 drivers then I will launch HW monitor and see what it does before trying the latest and greatest drivers...I am little stumped as to why AMD release hardware before the drivers

 

Ok hwmonitor ran. This is what I can see:



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Should I go ahead and try the latest drivers?

 

Well the idle temps are pretty fine. Lets try the new drivers and try out some games too. Then we will get a gud idea of the temps

 

Will do. I noticed that from time to time the temps would shoot up into the 70s almost instantly and then drop and the fans would of course ramp up and then drop again.

I guess this was going into 3d mode at 1.1V and 900/1300 probably a tad much for the cooling. I have now managed to successfully reflash the vbios to stock 1V and 850/1200. Idle is reported to be 49C in hwmonitor. GPUz still not working properly.

Now to try this newest driver...!

Cheers for your help Curs3. I always find a new GPU is hard work haha

 

Tell me about it. My frnd in the US got my laptop shipped to him on Wednesday and I have been chatting with him non stop to get the lap working and chk the benchmark scores. Drivers are always a pain when the stock ones are not the best

I pity people who do not visit such forums. They hardly know anything about all this. But I guess not knowing something means they dont have a reason to worry but still.

 

AMD drivers does not usually have unstable FPS right? For 6990m owners, does your FPS on BF3 go down as low as 25 FPS sometimes no matter what settings even when highly overclocked? or is it just that the current drivers available for 7970m are just doo doo butter?

 

Rightly Curs3..I uninstalled the old amd drivers then rebooted and ran driver sweeper to remove all the mess of old driver files of which there were plenty.

Then rebooted once more and installed the latest 8.93 drivers. The outcome is the same. Hwmonitor works nicely. GPUz the same as before.

I guess until AMD release offical whqrl drivers for this card I won't have gpuz working.

edit: I can't seem to run the card at full blast without the machine hard shutting off. Happens a few seconds after full load is attained so temps are perhaps in the mid 70s. The old 6990M I could game at over 90C and never had a problem with it. This is starting to get irritating. The cpu is at stock clocks too so not taking that much power away from the GPU. Annoying thing is again my 6990M never gave me any issues on the power front...

anybody any ideas?

 

I believe slv & ithryin (sp?) are undervolting due to the M15x mobo limiting the power to the 7970m

 

Yeah they are. I never had throttling issues with the 6990M. However here even with voltage at 0.975V the gpu doesn't even throttle it just causes the laptop to switch off once the card gets up to full load in game or in furmark in other words after a few seconds at load or immediately.

 

WHOA - I used to get around 7200 with Tess off.
I upgraded to 12.7 and here is the score with Tess off now!!
Is this a normal score with Tess off?
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM score: P9338 3DMarks

 

Repeated test several tiimes 3Dmark crashed, then was able to reproduce this score...
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM score: P9354 3DMarks
Has anyone else had this strange behaviour on 12.7?

 

Yay my 7970M is working properly now. I installed completely mis-matching backplate screws so the thing wasn't making proper contact

 

Ok now I tried with Tesselation ON
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor,CLEVO P170EM score: P8194 3DMarks

 

Satchmo77 unless you have an alien card, something is wrong with those scores.
I mean, 8k with a single 7970m is not really possible
There's ur error: graphic test 1 reports incorrect values, check how many frames u got, lol.

 

What caused the crash? The OC?

 

Yes, I saw the framerate ....but my question is what causes this?

 

I get the odd framerate only when I overclock. I have had strange readings from afterburner when I overclock too...it may have something to do with the strange scores...

 

Try reducing to more stable levels. Try with 900/1400 and chk if the same occurs. The fact that 3Dmark crashed might mean your overclock is not stable. Lower it down and find the right balance.

 

I suppose youre running Clevo drivers right? I dont know if Clevo users can upgrade to 12.7, worth a shot. Those drivers after all are "betas", so it may lead to some issues.

 

Clevo's can be updated with the 12.7 drivers. Mine is currently running them without issues. Though I have heard a lot of people with Clevo complain about the drivers I haven't faced any issues with mine.

 

Oh thats good. Im not saying Clevo drivers sux man, dont get me wrong. Im saying that these drivers much like 12.5 and 12.7 are all betas, so having some issues with them i guess its normal.
Im having some in one game using 12.7 althought it performs FAR better than 12.5.
Thats what im saying.

However back on topic, he could try to remove the drivers using the clean method (guide in my sig) and try to follow Clevo guides to install 12.7s.
Something is wrong with the drivers he's using.

 

Of course they suck I had to break my head for 2 days to get them to work properly. My frnd in the US actually has the laptop now and I had to guide him from here. He is not a computer newbie but he needs to be guided as he is not up to date with technology. I had a hard time finding the right drivers and getting them work properly and run all the benchmarks. I have decided I will not IC it from here. I will do it on my own under my watch

The stock drivers are bad. The 12.5 mod ones and the 12.7 show good stability though.

 

Very Nice Run
AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-820QM Processor ,Alienware score: P6071 3DMarks

 

They dont seem like stock clocks. Your graphics score is really high.

 

yeah indeed, frequencies have been pushed to 1000/1500

 

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-820QM Processor ,Alienware score: P6092 3DMarks

 

i got a little higher score overclocked to 900/1400 on stock clevo drivers. ill try going 1000/1500 after i put some IC diamond on. i have stock thermal paste.

 

OK, new to the benchmarking realm here and having some issues. I have the NP 9150 with the 3610 processor and the 7970m gpu. Had a few issues/bsod's with the stock drivers Sager provided playing Diablo 3. Recently updated the drivers only using the custom install (It jacked my comp up when I did the full install with lots of CCC errors, etc. so just do custom install only fyi) from the 12.7 beta download. Here are my issues:

1. Whenever I run 3d Mark 11 it just doesn't seem to notice/pick up/recognize the 7970m. Switchable Graphics is set to High Performance for the program but my scores come out to "X1842" and the GPU is showing the iGPU HD 4000. How do I change this over to recognize the 7970m?

2. GPU-Z doesn't show many stats for my 7970m - not clock speeds, bandwidth, etc. It shows the 7970m at the bottom as an option to choose from but doesn't show much else.

I had a bit of issues with the stock drivers and I'm just trying to get this thing in a more stable position with decent performance. I'd like to run these tests (or others if you have recommendations) to see that the card is doing alright. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

I posted this below in the Alienware M17x forums. Figured I'd post here as well since this is the 7970M thread. I'm quite impressed with this card. At first I wasn't, but for some reason it seems it's really starting to mature. The first day I had it, the max I could OC was 1000/1450. Now I'm up to 1015/1560. Not sure I wanna go any higher on the stock voltage. May try 1015/1600 tomorrow.