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OZONE 3D SOFT SHADOWS BENCH

I agree with you to some extent, but seriously, benchmarks have always been ways of comparing hardware and settings, right? How can you compare hardware when weaker hardware synthetically performs better?

Also, I just realised my GPU was clocked lower (I formatted not long ago) scoring a very attractive (when compared to other nVidia cards) 4.7k. Still, I'll be sticking with 3dMark series- it's still synthetic but its a little closer to realistic values from what you could see in games.

If there was a more mainstream way of benchmarking (perhaps a few runs of several game maps, a bit like 3dMark but from distributors - like the crysis timedemo, then a ut3 timedemo etc) i'd obviously use that, as I'm sure would many others.

It's not that I'm getting all up in arms about it, it's just what's the point in even bothering with this program if every card gets a bias (to some degree) score?
 
True, it can be a bit misleading, but at the same time individual synthetic benchmarks give us more of a clear idea on what the card is good at and what it's not good at.

But yeah, game benchmarks are the best...after all....that's why we bought the cards right? Perhaps someone should start a UT3 timedemo thread...that would be interesting...as I don't know of a CoD4 timedemo program
 
Made a slight mistake. Was at 2.41 Ghz on previous post and not 2.61Ghz. Now at 2.61Ghz (Pretty much max overclock on this board), with 796/1269 and got 6072 with 7.12 drivers (+crysis hot fix lol).

Not too shabby for a motherboard with only 4x pci-e and the downstream pipeline disabled lol.

Matthew
 
here is an update with my 8800gt and a better clock on my cpu.

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I've had enough of these non dx10 tests.
They make my rig look crap! 3519 on a quad/8800gtx ffs
Roll on 3dmark08...
on vista64
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lol.... luckily not many people take the slightest interest in this benchmark when deciding what card to buy ;)

Matthew
 
Seeing as it's not the usual 3d06 i thought i'd give it a whirl.

3DSOFTSHADOWS.jpg


:confused: no idea why it didnt get the drivers? anyway it's an x1900xt-x on the 2.11 cats at stock speed.
 
Some real nice scores on this benchie :D

Hmm... still not been brave enough to try the pencil mod to o/c my 3870 more yet (need a multi-meter first). So gotta beat gurusan though!

Matthew
 
Im beginning to wonder if this bench was made by some AMD guys .

I wonder why AMD setups are doing so well in this benchmark :rolleyes:
 
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