Just wondering about vantage, from what i have seen it is even worse than the old ones at giving you an idea of real world performence! my e6600 at 3.2ghz is scoring 24400 points which is higher than a lot of the faster and newer chips out there! and the graphics are aweful to say the least.
Is 3D Mark Vantage Cr*p?
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it always was a nice test to do after getting your sparkling new GFX card out of its box, been running them since the beginning and find this one a huge dissapointment. I want to see my 2 year old card and CPU struggle with 3fps not getting the same result as brand new hardware, 9856 points on a two year old system is stupid.
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i agree, all that matters is if the computer runs your games/programs that you need it to run
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As people keep saying, benchmarks give you an idea of performance in benchmarks.
I don't think anyone is claming that a certain score in a benchmark indicates the performance in a game.
What benchmarks are useful for, however, is comparing one PC to another and measuring the changes ones makes on a single PC.
For many people, myself included, a benchmark is a toy, something to play with when overclocking to give you a quantitative figure of how much impact your overclock / tweak has made.
In this respect, Vantage is like any other benchmark - you run it, it gives you a number. You run it again after tweaking, you see a different number.
So no, I don't think Vantage is crap.
Is anyone claiming that it provides a real-world indication of games performance? If so, there is some truth in that, since it's highly likely that a PC 1 scoring higher than PC 2 will perform better in games too.
I do agree that the performance in 3DMark is not necessarily indicative of performance in a game though.
I don't think anyone is claming that a certain score in a benchmark indicates the performance in a game.
What benchmarks are useful for, however, is comparing one PC to another and measuring the changes ones makes on a single PC.
For many people, myself included, a benchmark is a toy, something to play with when overclocking to give you a quantitative figure of how much impact your overclock / tweak has made.
In this respect, Vantage is like any other benchmark - you run it, it gives you a number. You run it again after tweaking, you see a different number.
So no, I don't think Vantage is crap.
Is anyone claiming that it provides a real-world indication of games performance? If so, there is some truth in that, since it's highly likely that a PC 1 scoring higher than PC 2 will perform better in games too.
I do agree that the performance in 3DMark is not necessarily indicative of performance in a game though.
Or you could play a game and see what it is like?
Jimbo got it spot on, 3D mark is a toy, and i dont thin anyone is trying to say it reflects real world performence. What i was trying to get at though is how can my old Cpu mentioned in op be getting higher points than faster and newer cpu's? obviously the new 3dmark is badly designed or my cpu is just amazing which i highly highly doubt
My gfx is an old 8800gtx, and the benches i have seen with people with better cpu's then me have newer and better cards like gtx280 and 4870's.Just wondering why it is so high, maybe vantage was made with older cores in mind, and we will have to wait for some updates or something. Who knows, at least i have some bragging rights to my mates, loved the look on his face when my cpu scored more than his e8400 
Maybe it was part of a special, secret, 'super speed' batch - with extra cheese on top... so fast and so secret, they didn't tell anyone about them... but a few, just a very few, were sold off by mistake as normal, run of the mill 8800GTXs !!!
but no my games run slow!! bugger how i wish i had got that super secret batchvantage gives me performance indicators to may machine, i can clock things up and see how they effect the score, if it goes up then what i have done has had positive impact on performance, if score goes down then i know i done something wrong.