ATI Radeon 4570 ..

hi .... i just got my laptop yesterday with specs

dell studio 15
core i5 520
4gb ram
320 hdd
ati 4570 512mb gddr3

the question is, i jus had 3dmark 06 test and got 1492, i was expecting the result around 4000 with my specs easily, so jus need some help wot cud be gone wrong?
i m using catalyst 10.1, tried with dell driver but same result so need some help here plz?

 

any suggestion guyz ?

 

the 4570 in ddr2 gets around 1.5-2k 3dmarks in 06... Perhaps your running in power saver mode? You can fix that by right clicking the battery/power supply icon in the lower right hand of the taskbar, going to power options and changing it to balanced or full power. If your still having issues report back.

Also as a side note does not the notebook i5 use a turboboost feature when its stressed within the right scenario's.

sorry I would go more in depth but it's 10pm here, And I gotta wake up at 4am for work.

Hopefully immi79 your issue's will get solved rapidly

 

Hey there immi and welcome to the forums! Congrats on the purchase.

First of all i would like you to check what battery setting you are on. Are you running windows 7? if you are go to the bottom right of your screen, and click the battery icons, default if ind machines on ballanced (possible mix of low gpu performance with high cpu performance.) so open the menu, and click on show more power settings (Or something alike.)

From there you will be able to set high performance (Which essentially will let your GPU throttle up.)

Let me know how it goes, and hopefully we can nail this.

Beat me to it helio .

 

thanx for replies guyz , yep m using windows 7 and jus have changed power options to high performance and run the 3dmark 06 again but results r the same again1497. so wot else cud b wrong here then?

 

do u use battery or AC power?
the gpu speed will be slow down if use battery
even though in high performance mode, the speed still the same

 

The 4570 is a pretty capable card, and the Studio 15's version uses GDDR3 memory. If I were you, I wouldn't give a damn about benchmarks. Actual game performance is the only thing that really matters. And I know for a fact that the 4570 (I had the 256MB version with a C2D P8600, 2.4GHz) can run Modern Warfare 2 at native resolution quite nicely.

 

Download and run Gpu-z then run a stress test program such as ATI tool. You will quickly see if you card is running at stock clocks or not.

 

+1 on this. Why waste time getting benchmarks "up-to-scratch"?

 

if u expect a 4000+++ score , i would return the laptop and get another one... there a way more capable laptops out there for the same price...look around... but if u really want to fix the benchmark , do it on AC power and close all non-essential processes.... if the result is still the same , return the laptop and demand a replacement or get another one all together..

 

If benchmarks matter to you, then yes, you should be getting 4-5K. I would see how the performance is with games before making a big deal out of it though.

 

i was not doin benchmark on AC power, now i got 3889 score, m not that much into benchmarks neither but just wanted to know wot cud b the problem, now i got it , thanx to all u guyz, and in this price m quite happy with all these specs m havin rite now .... thanx again to u all