GPU Passmark Result Lower Than Average

[chivs688]

Ever since I've had my GTX480 (had for the best part of a year) I have always been dubious of whether it was performing to its full potential or not, but have been unsure whether it was me just being paranoid or not.

Just ran a benchmark test in Passmark Performance Test 7.0 and the score I came out with was 3091.6.
The average score for the card shown on the Passmark website is 3525.

So for some reason my card is performing at 500 less points than the average :/

I know some people say not to take these things too literally or seriously etc, but that seems like a bit of a big difference for it to just be nothing, and has me a bit concerned.
All latest drivers.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Chivs.

 

[Surveyor]

Is your card running at stock speeds?

Possibly there are a lot of overclocked cards bumping the average score up.

Try running the Heaven benchmark with the settings in this thread:

***Official Unigine Heaven 2.5 Benchmark Scores***

See how your result compares to the others.

 

[chivs688]

I got a score of 1012, which is the lowest GTX480 score there, and one of them has a 1286 :/

 

[cainer]

whats the spec of the rest of your rig chivs?

 

[steve1873]

Perhaps something bottlenecking your card? As has been said, post the rest of your system. It could be that with yours at stock speed and a small bottleneck somewhere in the system means tha your score is a bit lower than those with overclocked cards and without any bottlenecks.

 

[Freddie1980]

You need to run something like afterburner and check and see if the drivers are ramping up the clock speeds while its under load

 

[JasonKnights]

Probably bottlenecking like people are saying. Is your power supply big enough? Are the pci express 6-8 pins running straight to psu or are you using the adapters?

 

[chivs688]

My rig consists of:
Intel Core i5-2500K
Asus P8P67 Intel P67 Motherboard
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Everything is at stock speeds.

Regarding the pci pins, they're just straight from the PSU to the GPU, no adapters, if I'm understanding correctly.

 

[maklabouhlel]

My rig consists of:
Intel Core i5-2500K
Asus P8P67 Intel P67 Motherboard
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Everything is at stock speeds.

Regarding the pci pins, they're just straight from the PSU to the GPU, no adapters, if I'm understanding correctly.

You need more memory.

 

[Lordgrayone]

You need more memory.

i used to get a score of 3500ish with only 4gb of memory so i doubt its that

 

[xsistor]

It's probably the OC thing. If you did 3d Mark vantage for example, most of the scores u see when you search ur specs are for heavily OCed systems and you have to wade through the list to find one that is stock.