3d mark 06

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 01:19

Got a score of 7300 with a 3850 512 (rest of specs as per sig)

Sound right?

steve258 · 23 Mar 2008 at 01:51

My friend's machine could just manage to break 10K mark with his E2180 overclocked to 3.3Ghz and slightly clocked 3850 pro, it's the 256mb version though.

That score looks a bit low but probably about right if that X2 is at stock.

Cairnsey · 23 Mar 2008 at 01:54

My score is below sig. the HD3870 was at 760/920 for that run.

gurusan · 23 Mar 2008 at 08:24

thats about right....your cpu is hurtin your score.

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 12:53

OK, thanks guys - I thought it might be low - it was running at 670/830 so I will try over clocking it a bit and post back

cpu is only a 3800x2 stock

mame · 23 Mar 2008 at 12:58

I had a 256mb 3850 and an e2180. On 3dmark06 it would score 7500 with the e2180 at stock (2.0ghz) and ~10,400 clocked to 3.2ghz with a moderate overclock on the the 3850

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 14:08

I have overclocked the gpu as below and got 100 more 3dmark06 points - yipeeeeeeeeeee! Now 7410!

gurusan · 23 Mar 2008 at 15:53

Overclock the CPU and you'll see better gains.

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 18:09

gurusan said:
Overclock the CPU and you'll see better gains.

overclock cpu through bios?

also, how did you overclock your gpu memory that much?

did you use heatsinks on graphics card memory?

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 18:17

gurusan said:
Overclock the CPU and you'll see better gains.

I just noticed custom water cooled in your sig so that might explain things!

gurusan · 23 Mar 2008 at 18:19

Yes, overclock CPU through bios.

And I do have heatsinks on my vRAM, but I don;t think they do very much. If your card comes with Samsung chips (powercolor cards come with) you should be able to get to 1050-1100mhz....

Jon33 · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:57

(Offtopic but fraps check your email about your x1900xt =))

Cairnsey · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:46

Why not post a breakdown of your scores?
I.E.
Score:
SM3.0:
SM2.0:
CPU:

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:15

Jon33 said:
(Offtopic but fraps check your email about your x1900xt =))

replied

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:17

gurusan said:
Yes, overclock CPU through bios.

And I do have heatsinks on my vRAM, but I don;t think they do very much. If your card comes with Samsung chips (powercolor cards come with) you should be able to get to 1050-1100mhz....

thanks, how do i know if samsung? Pref without opening case?

fraps · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:17

Cairnsey said:
Why not post a breakdown of your scores?
I.E.
Score:
SM3.0:
SM2.0:
CPU:

does the free version show this?

steve258 · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:30

Yes but you'll have to register for the futuremark ORB service to see the detail scores.

fraps · 24 Mar 2008 at 00:57

Can some one run the FEAR performance test on 1600x1200 with everything on MAX (except soft shadows) with a 3850 pro 512mb but with better CPUs so I can see what possible bottleneck there is?

My result is below:

gurusan · 24 Mar 2008 at 11:02

Can't do 1600x1200, but I can do 1680x1050.

Specs:
-E6300 @ 2.8ghz
-2gb DDR2 800mhz 4,4,4,12
-Windows Server 2008, Catalyst 8.3 Drivers
-3850pro 512mb

--no soft shadows as you specified

Run1: Max details & 4xFSAA: GPU 710/1658 -------Run2: Max details no AA: GPU 710/1658---------Run3: Max details & 4xFSAA: GPU 777/2198

fraps · 24 Mar 2008 at 11:53

Thanks a lot for that gurusan.

I used 4xFSAA in my test above and it looks very similar to your test at my gpu clocks (710/1658)

so I don't think the cpu is bottlenecking at this resolution (but the story might be different at a lower res...)

I would like to do this test with unreal 3 as that I guess is more cpu demanding than FEAR