new vaio z performance numbers

Hi all. Seen a few specs posted randomly throughout other threads on the new vaio z. Thought we might benefit from a thread dedicated to them.

My z arrived last week but was out of the country. Spent the past few hours getting settled in.

Here is what I'm looking at on the Windows Experience Index (along with my computer's specs):

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If anyone has any other stat software you want me to run, let me know.

 

Hi, Folks!

My system is a VPCZ11CGX/X (2.53/3.06 GHz, 256 GB SSD, (+) 6GB RAM). Here's a few benchmarks to get started. Note that these figures were inadvertently posted with overclocked graphics, set to 620 MHz, 1364 MHz, and 910 MHz.

• Windows Experience Index: 6.8, 6.8, 6.5, 6.5, 7.7 - 6.5
• 3DMARK03: 21017
• 3DMARK05: 14587
• 3DMARK06: 7854
• PCMARK Vantage: 9663
• CineBench: 3374 - 3614 - 8191
• SuperPI (32M): 14:44.970

Cheers!
Mark

 

I don't know why my Z got 6.3 instead of 6.4 in Graphic?

 

The numbers for graphics are subjective. They can be different for a number of factors. I wouldn't worry about being .1 off. BTW, if you overclock and run the WEI, you can go up at least .2-.4 My CW was a 5.9, and now it's 6.3, and that's just with a G210m.

 

At what resolution did you get those 3DMark scores?? You got a 330M, right?

 

Just ran Passmark tests for my vaio and got 1510.0 total score.

Individually:
CPU Mark 3192
2D graphics 289.8
3D graphics 436.5
Memory mark 1774.2
Disk mark 2688.7
CD mark 352.8

my machine Sony Vaio Z (VPCZ119GX):
core i7 m620 (2.67ghz), 8gb ram, 512gb drive, blu-ray, win 7 pro (64bit)

 

Can anyone run FRAPS to get some frames rates in some shooter game ie. Battlefield bad company etc... It will really help on my decision to buy. Thank you all in advanced.

 

Hi, webuster!

Absolutely everything is run at its defaults hands-off, which means 1024x768 for most of the 3DMARK series. I haven't yet posted 3DMARK Vantage, because the Z doesn't support 1280 x 1024 on the internal LCD. I'll hook it up to a monitor today and will post that score later on.

Yes, my system has nVidia GT 330M graphics (plus the Intel integrated graphics). So far, I don't believe there are any options on that score within the Z11X family.

Cheers!
Mark

 

Hi, Gang!

OK, as promised, I've run 3DMARK Vantage on my Vaio Z, but I'd forgotten that it essentially totally relies on PhysX acceleration in virtually every test, and obviously, the GT 330M doesn't have what this test is looking for. Watching virtually every benchmark run at 1-7 FPS was boring! Anyway, the results are:

P2223 - GPU 1796 - CPU 7775

Cheers!
Mark

 

Sweet figures! Did you overclock your GPU or CPU in any way?

 

Hi, Prodigy.m9!

Whoa - good catch! In fact, I had played quickly with MSI's Afterburner utility the day before and had my system set to not enter sleep mode while on AC. It was so quick and trivial that I'd completely forgotten about it! I ran it in about 10 seconds, and simply shoved the Core clock and Memory clock sliders all the way to the right/maximum (no change to voltages). As it turns out, this resulted in clocks of 620MHz, 1364 MHz, and 910 MHz, now that I've just done it again. I had to re-run the tests to even realize that this had happened! Please accept my apologies for the oversight!

The new numbers (with no overclocking) are:

• Windows Experience Index: No change
• 3DMARK03: 16761
• 3DMARK05: 11612
• 3DMARK06: 6241
• PCMARK Vantage: No change
• CineBench: 4027 - 3732 - 8161 (Slightly odd - a bit faster)

I'll also note this in the post above.

FYI!
Mark

 

Hi, Mark,

Nvidia says GT330M is PhysX-ready and "built-in NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology enables hyper-realistic gameplay" here (Specification):

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_330m_us.html

although it doesn't mark GT330M as PhysX-supported here (Table 2):

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_m_series.html

Strange? Do you know the difference between PhysX-ready and PhysX-supported?

Wikipedia says theoretically "any CUDA-ready GeForce graphics card (series 8 and newer, having 32 or more cores and 256MB or more of video memory) can take advantage of PhysX without the need to install a dedicated PhysX card."

Do you have any idea on that?

 

Hi, KevinHK!

The distinction is whether the chip actually has on-chip hardware which helps to optimize PhysX computation, or whether their software emulator pumps equivalent, but far slower, math down the standard GPU pipeline. As you can see, this makes a big difference! nVidia GPUs designed after the PhysX acquisition are far more efficient at this benchmark. Note that even very fast ATI GPUs, like my desktop Radeon 5870, are also abysmal on this benchmark.

Cheers!
Mark

 

@bendotorg

I like your quad drive score 7.9 mm very good
I have samsung 128 mlc and when it was new I had 7.4 now I have 6.8 or 6.9
crap :-/

 

has anyone tried playing games e.g. ME2?

 

I've only tried Biohazard 5 Benchmark, and my Z only got a "C grade" (around 20fps) when using DX10...DX9 looks a little bit better...

 

No worries, I'm actually browsing here as I'm having a horrid time with my M11X, in the 6 days it's arrived the technicians have come 3 times, and each time in trying to replace a part to fix issues, they managed to mess up some other part of my system. I'm in the midst of asking for a replacement instead of another (dreaded) repair, but if the replacement takes too long and is going past my return period, I need a contingency plan, which is the Z.

Nice to see it's so easily overclockable though. Have you tried using those settings for an extended period? Any stability or temperature issues? I'd rather not shell out $650-700 more going from the 11X to a Z, but seems I might not have a choice after all the problems I'm having. Also, are there any other threads about individual game performance numbers on the Z? I can't seem to find any really comprehensive ones on this site or on Google. Thanks!

 

i cant even get these clocks to work for games
Core Speed * 575 MHz
Shader Speed * 1265 MHz
Memory Speed * 1066 MHz
how are you getting 620MHz, 1364 MHz, and 910 MHz?

 

really? 20fps, i figured the Z would get a bit more then that. What res were you running the game at..?

 

Double post.

 

Hi, Folks!

I guess I'm just lucky! Either that, or MSI's Afterburner lies, but the performance numbers would seem to indicate otherwise. I'm really not kidding. I'd fired up Afterburner, and decided... what the heck, let's see what it can do, and drug both sliders all the way to the right. I initially thought that maybe it hadn't worked, since nothing crashed, and proceeded to install benchmarks and other software. I apparently hadn't even needed any reboots, since I did the benchmark testing the next day, and the initial speed setting was still intact.

Well, I ran it for more than a day after that 10-second overclocking "session"(!), and ran all those benchmarks without a single problem, so it's certainly looking like a pretty stable overclock to me!

I must admit one thing. I never changed the voltage at all, and to be honest, I haven't even checked the GPU temps yet! They may well be scorching hot, since I initially thought that perhaps Afterburner hadn't worked at all. I'll have to give this a look over the next couple of days.

Cheers!
Mark

 

it may be stable for the benchmarks but could you run a couple modern games and see if it crashes. also note temps during gaming. with the clocks i posted my temps were 81C

 

Hi, Stauffer4918!

Thus far, I've not really been an avid PC gamer - my only "modern" games are on my PS3 (the PC games I've played are older, like Lara Croft, Half Life 2, etc). I'll see if I can swing a new game or two. If so, I'll gladly post what I discover here.

Clearly, now that I know that the overclock worked, I'll absolutely make sure to run both a temp monitor, as well as third-party tools like GPU-Z and/or RivaTuner to ensure the accuracy of the clocks, plus FRAPS to do some decent frame rate logging.

Have Fun!
Mark

 

Anything below 85 degrees sounds fairly acceptable to me, but just wondering how it performs in games, i.e. the FPS recorded, 3DMark06 scores are known to be pumped up by the processor yes? So would the 7000+ be reflected in real game performance for the average modern game these days?

 

Hi, Folks!

OK. I've verified that MSI Afterburner works extremely well here, and have verified its temperature and clocking accuracy with GPU-Z. For temps, they've reached 87, 86, and 85 maximum on 3DMark 2003, 2005, and 2006 with the same maximum overclock I'd used before.

Clearly, we'll see higher temps with a heavier duty game. Can anyone recommend a demo program that's appropriate these days for FRAPS to measure FPS, so that I don't have to run out and buy something?

Cheers!
Mark

 

Ummm... The only one I have in mind is the Street Fighter IV benchmark now, although that would hardly stress this system at all I reckon. Anyone else have any ideas?

 

Hi, Gang!

At about 3:00 this morning, I woke up and remembered Dirt 2, and downloaded that demo. That seems like it'll place a fair amount of stress on the unit, and will certainly up the temps. I haven't yet had the chance to do more than briefly fire it up, but I'll post results once I do.

Any other ideas, folks? Thanks, Prodigy.M9, for that recommendation!

Cheers!
Mark

 

I played mass effect at naitive res without fraps and everything seemed really smooth. Will properly benchmark later.

I also loaded BFBC2 and played at naitive resolution with medium settings and things seemed to hover around 20-30 but it's hard to eyeball..

 

Did you get some strange screen flashes and artifacting in BFBC2? I did.

 

Hi, Folks!

This is only preliminary, but so far, testing in the DiRT 2 demo looks like this:

- FRAPS Benchmark 1: Min 42, Max 60, Avg 50.466 FPS, Max Temp 87C
- FRAPS Benchmark 2: Min 41, Max 55, Avg 49.675 FPS, Max Temp 87C

This is with the max MSI Afterburner overclock that I've been reporting, at the default 1024x768 resolution (since the demo seems to crash if you change resolutions, whether or not the GPU's overclocked). This overclock seems rock solid on my machine so far. Not too bad at all!

Have Fun!
Mark

 

Yes I did too, but I was monitoring temperatures and it didn't go beyond 80 so I concluded it was a driver issue with the game (haven't seen it anywhere else).

 

OK, thanks. I didn't check temps and was hoping software issue. My only concern is that it would always play fine for a couple of minutes and then start acting up. This "usually" points to a thermal issue/failure.

 

I just played a little BFBC2 maybe 30 minutes or so.
I use EVGA Precision software to O/C the GT330m played at native res 1600x900 with AF 8X, and AA at 2X clock speeds 575 Core 800 Mem Shaders sync. Medium details and something was on high no Ambient occlusion and vsync off.

Gameplay was good at these details ill have another crack at it this evening and will report the GPU temps. So far pretty impressive.

 

Is there anyone willing to run Geekbench for me? Geekbench is a benchmarking program i've only really seen used on macs, but they have a windows version as well. I have a few people on the MacRumors forums that are asking, as they are curious how the Z compares with the Macbook Pros out there.

http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/

Thanks!

 

Geekbench:

I d/loaded it and ran it in 32-bit 'cos I'm not going to pay for the 64-bit one. Results:

Total: 4847

Integer Processor integer performance 5003
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 5875
Memory Memory performance 3626
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 3151

(My spec: i7 620M, 8GB).

Output file here.

 

always keeping my eyes on this thread. love to know that the temp is reasonable for its specs. at least aint like the previous Z

anyway guys, keep updating the benchmark especially those temp. it would be awesome such small device with powerful spec like Z having appropriate temp

sidenote: btw i did try play the BFBC2, with the low setting at res, still playable. i did try change to high setting tio see how it looks like. somehow in my opinion, the COD: MW2 still the best to me for its graphics. maybe just me

 

double post...

 

Perfect, Thanks so much!

 

Can u benchmark it using a smaller res. like 1024 or 1280 on Medium setting for BFBC2 and see if u can hit above 40 frame rates/sec. Thanks.

 

http://www.madonion.com/compare?3dm06=13609131

7385 3dmark06
575/1265/825 Mem
VPCZ11CGX/X

 

ditto, happens mainly in the menu while in game for me