My "problem" is still that while I get a normal graphics, cpu, physics score my overall combined score is too low.
I know this issue has been addressed before but still I haven't found or heard of a solution or what is the actual cause of the low performance score.
I know that on the Futuremark site it has been stated that problem is:
The issue is that...
- The "official new way of detecting SLI setups" fails on far too many SLI systems. Original SystemInfo that shipped with 3DMark 11 does it like this and SLI configurations just hung before Test 6. So we had to revert it back to the "legacy" method.
- The "legacy way of detecting SLI setups" works, but it can't tell normal SLI from SLI that is in Single GPU mode (from NVIDIA control panel) or Multi-GPU config that has dedicated PhysX card.
- Test 6 (combined) load changes with the number of GPUs. In order to properly render the scene with multi-GPU, each GPU must have a copy of the GPU physics simulation running on it (using Bullet/DirectCompute) - otherwise the physics code would have to shuffle data between GPUs and that would slow things down horribly. Hence the benchmark needs to know how many GPUs you have.
- If Test 6 gets wrong number of GPUs (in your case, I guess it gets "3"), the number of DirectCompute simulations running is larger than the number of GPUs actually rendering the scene, causing notable performance loss.
With my setup I originally got a combined score of around 5600 points (old forceware 263,14 driver) which seemingly is too low also according to 3Dmark own health-meter.
Now several months have passed and I decided to once again fire up 3Dmark11 with the latest patch.
Before I used Forceware 280,26 which got me this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056
With the latest WHQL Forceware 296,10 I got this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056
Still even with newer drivers and the latest patch for 3Dmark11 the low Combined score issue isn't solved with 3 cards.
Well I managed to get a bit higher combined score though - but still not getting 6000points there as 3Dmark11 lists as the target score.
http://3dmark.com/healthcheck/3dm11/3253056
Is there any fix to this yet ? patch and newer drivers haven't help much since mid summer 2011.
I know this issue has been addressed before but still I haven't found or heard of a solution or what is the actual cause of the low performance score.
I know that on the Futuremark site it has been stated that problem is:
The issue is that...
- The "official new way of detecting SLI setups" fails on far too many SLI systems. Original SystemInfo that shipped with 3DMark 11 does it like this and SLI configurations just hung before Test 6. So we had to revert it back to the "legacy" method.
- The "legacy way of detecting SLI setups" works, but it can't tell normal SLI from SLI that is in Single GPU mode (from NVIDIA control panel) or Multi-GPU config that has dedicated PhysX card.
- Test 6 (combined) load changes with the number of GPUs. In order to properly render the scene with multi-GPU, each GPU must have a copy of the GPU physics simulation running on it (using Bullet/DirectCompute) - otherwise the physics code would have to shuffle data between GPUs and that would slow things down horribly. Hence the benchmark needs to know how many GPUs you have.
- If Test 6 gets wrong number of GPUs (in your case, I guess it gets "3"), the number of DirectCompute simulations running is larger than the number of GPUs actually rendering the scene, causing notable performance loss.
With my setup I originally got a combined score of around 5600 points (old forceware 263,14 driver) which seemingly is too low also according to 3Dmark own health-meter.
Now several months have passed and I decided to once again fire up 3Dmark11 with the latest patch.
Before I used Forceware 280,26 which got me this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056
With the latest WHQL Forceware 296,10 I got this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056
Still even with newer drivers and the latest patch for 3Dmark11 the low Combined score issue isn't solved with 3 cards.
Well I managed to get a bit higher combined score though - but still not getting 6000points there as 3Dmark11 lists as the target score.
http://3dmark.com/healthcheck/3dm11/3253056
Is there any fix to this yet ? patch and newer drivers haven't help much since mid summer 2011.