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QOTW: What does your main PC score in 3DMark?

by Parm Mann on 13 December 2013, 17:30

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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It was interesting reading your PC specifications last week - you guys and gals have some seriously impressive rigs - but now it's time to find out how well tuned they are.

To put some numbers to the builds, we're asking what does your main PC score in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark?

I'll get the ball rolling with my tried-and-trusted office PC. It's not the quickest, but it's rock solid in terms of stability and it still plays the games I want it too. And come on, a Fire Strike score of 5,221 isn't that bad, is it?

To test your own system's performance, head over to Futuremark.com to download the latest version of the 3DMark benchmark (v1.2.250.0), run the tests and then post your results in Bagnaj97's 3DMark score thread to see how your setup compares.

Let's see how high we can get...



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Thread stuck. :)

Now to go get my score up.
My first score is in:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/99627

CPU actually running at 4.2Ghz
GPU (factory overclocked) 1020/1502
GPU core clock not reporting correct in first test, now correct below at 1241

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/100920
13.1 drivers http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/102307 2645
13.2 beta 5 drivers http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/104804 2652

hmm, i score less on the graphics score for fire strike and cloudgate than Bagnaj97 does , who has the same graphics, but less ram and a slower CPU. somethings not right on mine….

it could be because ive shuftied my card to the lower slot which is only an x8 speed insted of a x16 speed. (i needed the use of all 6 sata ports)
or its the extra 50mhz core theyre running on the GPU
i need to check, not that im bothered in the slightest, it could be anything, even the very messy 3 year old windows installation.

edit, re-ran with newer drivers albeit beta ones. score went up a bit and down a bit in areas.
im putting it down to a x8 slot and messy windows with stuff running in background. ivedecided. so thats that.
i7 960 / 1GB GTX 560 Ti (384 shaders, ‘OC’ edition - stock clocks 900 GPU / 2000 mem)

(yes, I have a silly amount of RAM installed - it will be moved to a VMWare machine at some point)



1st run, stock clocks
3096
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/102623


Updated drivers
3116
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/103675


Mem@2400
3161
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/105897


GPU@945, mem@2400
3285
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/106399


GPU@975, mem@2400
3381
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/107222


GPU@1050, mem@2350 + default driver settings
3481
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/109951


GPU@1050, mem@2350, uncore @ 3.2GHz, QPI @ 6.4GHz
3492
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/138437


As above plus latest drivers (314.07)
3586
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/256128



CPU speed is all over the place in the results but after monitoring it during the runs it pretty much stays locked at 3.33GHz. Haven't tried overclocking the CPU as either the CPU or more likely the mobo I have is a completely pants - can barely squeeze an extra MHz out and get the damn thing to boot.

Max GPU clock seems to be 1050MHz or thereabouts (at 1.2V) - anything more than that and I get a hard lock in the middle of the test run.