is there a way to impre vantage gpu scores

i was just curious if its possible to increase vantage gpu with tweaks or programs. does anyone know if its possible. i would like to break 17k

 

what's the point

 

thanks for your help

 

Overclock the gpu is the only way I found. Keeping in mind you should be disabling NVidia PhysX if using an NVidia card so as to get an accurate total score.

 

Seeing as you couldn't get over 17k by OCing without artifacting, no.

 

it's just a number. it has no bearing on anything. it's not worth blowing up your hardware just to have an arbitrary number show up on the screen.

In fact, here you go:



Problem solved. These points are verified by me to be *at least* as good as the other points. Probably better.

 

I lol'd.

We get your point, you got a new computer, it's fast. We don't really care enough for you to make 5 topics about it that should technically go in the Sager sub-forum.

 

Best thing you can do is lower the temps. If you really cared you could buy a very high CFM fan and place it on the vents over the GPU. Modding the voltages would probably require flashing the firmware... risky, and not worth it.

Or.... put your laptop in the freezer for an hour... then quickly run a one off benchmark, or put the laptop on a bed of dry ice. Probably a 50% chance of condensation on a critical component and shorting something out. Been a while since my phase change days.

The best realistic bet is to open your windows and let some cold air in the room to lower the ambient temps. Keep the laptop off, and run the benchmark when it first boots up... just be aware the condensation could occur if the temps get too low, and it also depends on humidity.

Think I'll try one more run tonight to get my overall score over 17k... yeah its pretty pointless guys I know... but some people find it fun. Like me.

 

If you run vantage in a nonstandard way using 3rd party programs to boost your score, you aren't really benchmarking your GPU anymore. You're just trying to exploit vantage for no reason. The whole point is to compare performance across components. If you change the environment (with liquid nitrogen, software exploits for vantage, etc) you don't get an honest comparison. As an end user, you might use vantage to verify that your GPU is working as it should. If you run it on liquid nitrogen / use software exploits, you won't be able to verify that.

This type of behavior is why ATI and Nvidia ended up with the whole fiasco on driver optimization for benchmarking programs, when they should have been spending their effort on game optimization and general performance optimization.

If you're running vantage over and over trying to get your score higher, then that's extremely boring and I'm done contributing. I recommend picking up counting silently or thumb twiddling.

 

Agreed.

Benchmarks are most useful for comparing similar systems to know that you're GPU is performing as it should. So if someone with a 6990M gets, say, a 10k when the stock average is 15k, there is clearly something wrong with their system. I did get my 17k score today as useless as it is. If anything, its just an affirmation that I got a good sample of a 6990M and that my laptop setup has some pretty effective cooling. Now back to playing Deus EX HR , good night folks

6990M @ 886/1100
Overall Score 17078
http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3669132

 

thats a sick score. what clocks do you run for games. i can only run 840/1040

 

Stock clocks for gaming. I'm playing Deus EX HR... can pretty much max out the settings at 1080p on stock clocks and still get good FPS. Might look at ocing a bit for skyrim, but for now, stock clocks. I would assume around 840-850.

 

You can run 40-60 FPS average on 11.11 WHQL for Skyrim 1080p Ultra on stock clocks.