Lightsmark 1.2 benchmark

[trog100]

its a shame amd/ati seem to have lost the plot entirely..

trog

 

[FAXA]

I hope more developers start using OpenGL, such as valve. I'd love to see OpenGL in the HL series.

 

[Jarman]

The original half life engine was capable of running on open gl

 

[WarEagleAU]

Alas poor Yorak, I knew him well Horatio. I didnt fare badly, but man, its time for me to upgrade.

 

[regan1985]

my upgrade from my x850xt really seems worth it lol

something isnt right i just checked other peoples scores i will redo it

 

[AphexDreamer]

my upgrade from my x850xt really seems worth it lol

something isnt right i just checked other peoples scores i will redo it

Dude this beanchie is heavily depedent on CPU power. The higher your CPU goes the higher score your going to get. With mycurrent setup I'm geting a score around the 80's which sucks cause I am seeing other people with worse cards then me scoring higher, but they all have higher clocked CPU's then me.

 

[pbmaster]

This is with my CPU at 3.0 GHz and my vid card at 650/1505/900.

 

[pbmaster]

This is with my CPU at 3.3 GHz(275 x 12) and vid card at 700/1623/940.

 

[cdawall]

all nice and updated

post if i missed you our messed something up on your score

 

[Kursah]

dont feel bad Kursah gets more then me and im at 3.6GHz 1125Mhz , 749.25/1062

but one thing I dont like when you get your fps you can change the res to show a different one so its very easy to cheat im not saying anyone is but you can and im not saying you are Kursah cuz the N cards are getting some high scores

There should definately be a locked setup for this bench for official style records. And maybe they will in a future revision. I have no need for cheating on a bench since their importance to my gaming is none, just like a lot of you out there. I was kind of suprised that in my original post that 1440x900 was lower than 1280x1024, since 1440 has less pixels.

I'm also curious as to why some 2900's are scoring so close to me, or lower...even on a slower or less OC'd PC, the 2900 should pretty much stomp my card on every front. So maybe that says something about this bench, and considering all the high NV scores, maybe this bench should be taken with a grain of salt. In the end it's just another benchmark, and they shouldn't be taken too seriously IMO. Granted they're interesting and entertaining to see what can be mustered out of one's system, I think there's too much basis on them. Once a bench stops being entertaining, I stop running it. I still use AQ3 as my primary test benchmark for when trying out new OC's/Tweaks, but even that's getting rare lately. In the end if you can game and enjoy gaming on your rig, who cares what your score is?

I would like to see more ATI cards in on this bench, because I'm sure there are plenty out there that can knock me off of my 11th place overall, 2nd place ATI score!

 

[newtekie1]

I'm really surprised at how well the 7600GT did, especially considering how people around here talk about how the 7 series sucked at OpenGL, how 12 ROPs isn't enough, and how 128-bit memory bus isn't enough. Yet it is outperforming x1950Pros...

 

[cdawall]

no one said the 7 sries sucked in ogl from what i could tell in everyother opengl bench we have the 7series kicks ass

 

[mandelore]

what does indeed puzzle me, which makes me believe something is amiss with the bench itself is:

1) older gen ATI cards scoring higher than latest cards

2)heavy reliance on CPU power (this IS meant to be a ogl graphics bench)

3)compared to other OGL benchies, like the fur/ripple etc, reguardless of cpu power/clocks, the older to latest gen hardware scale their scores accordingly. Indicating reliance on the GPU processing power rather than CPU etc.

4) Well, just that this test aint that "secure" lol

5) Three other seperate ogl benchmarks previously used clearly show the scaling of power between the cards, in this bench it appears to be a free for all

 

[cdawall]

what does indeed puzzle me, which makes me believe something is amiss with the bench itself is:

1) older gen ATI cards scoring higher than latest cards

2)heavy reliance on CPU power (this IS meant to be a ogl graphics bench)

3)compared to other OGL benchies, like the fur/ripple etc, reguardless of cpu power/clocks, the older to latest gen hardware scale their scores accordingly. Indicating reliance on the GPU processing power rather than CPU etc.

4) Well, just that this test aint that "secure" lol

5) Three other seperate ogl benchmarks previously used clearly show the scaling of power between the cards, in this bench it appears to be a free for all

1. that is confusing and true but only for the X1k series the X8XX ae bottom of the barrel in this

2. that is only true when you break 300fps they proved that on XS already sub 300fps you could be on a 1.6ghz sempron or a 4ghz quad core and score the same with the same graphics

3. the 7 series is VERY powerful on ogl and has shown that in EVERY ogl bench

4. it needs to be fixed so that it crashes if you change the files that it uses

5. agreed, WTF is the 8800 series at the top for in everyother bench we see a HEAVY dominance with the HD2900s often destroying the 8800s but the other cards scale a little better in fur me and newteckie both sit around the HD2600s and 8600s the only cards that appear out of line are the 8800s, HD2900s and X1k cards

here is the score list out of fur the X1k cards do quite will in this to maybe its just that the 8600/HD2600s are no were near as ogl powerful as last gen top end cards?

edit:
Result table:

yogurt_21 ------------ HD2900XT ----------- 3492
mandelore ------------ HD2900XT 1GB ------- 3396
Bonerheimer_c -------- HD2900Pro 1GB ------ 3312
Lopez0101 ------------ HD2900XT ----------- 3278
AphexDreamer---------- HD2900Pro 1GB ------ 3186
Lt_JWS --------------- HD2900XT ----------- 3140
DRDNA ---------------- X1950XTX CF -------- 2960
affinity0 ------------ HD2900XT 1GB ------- 2858
{JNT}Raptor ---------- 8800GT 512MB ------- 2826
mrsemi --------------- 8800Ultra ---------- 2556
largon --------------- 8800GTS 320MB ------ 2475
Lekamies ------------- 8800GTS 320MB ------ 2361
newtekie1 ------------ 7900GT SLi --------- 2176
Random Murderer ------ X1950Pro CF -------- 2106
giorgos th. ---------- 8800GTS 640MB ------ 2018
DOM_ATI_X800XL_PCI-E - X1950XT ------------ 1979
freakshow ------------ 8800GTS 640MB ------ 1950
psychomage343 -------- 8800GTS ------------ 1813
The Haunted ---------- X1900XT 512MB ------ 1756
JousteR -------------- X1900XTX ----------- 1562
anticlutch ----------- 8800GTS 320MB ------ 1537
someguyfromhell ------ 8800GTS 640MB ------ 1478
sneekypeet ----------- 7600GT SLi --------- 1421
AthlonX2 ------------- HD2600XT ----------- 1342
pt ------------------- HD2600XT ----------- 1310
X800 ----------------- X1950Pro ----------- 1265
newtekie1 ------------ 7900GT ------------- 1259
Morgoth -------------- X1950Pro 512MB ----- 1253
ghost101 ------------- HD2600XT ----------- 1235
cooler --------------- HD2600XT 256MB ----- 1227
imperialreign -------- X1950Pro 256MB ----- 1223
oily_17 -------------- X1950Pro ----------- 1212
newtekie1 ------------ 7600GT SLi --------- 1167
woozers -------------- HD2600XT ----------- 1157
magibeg -------------- HD2600XT ----------- 1136
cdawall -------------- 7800GS ------------- 862
newtekie1 ------------ 7600GT ------------- 741
JC316 ---------------- 8600GTS ------------ 718
von kain ------------- 7600GT ------------- 626
regan1985 ------------ X850XT ------------- 629
JrRacinFan ----------- 7600GS ------------- 436
newtekie1 ------------ X1650Pro ----------- 429
Xolair --------------- X1650Pro ----------- 400
newtekie1 ------------ 7300LE ------------- 202
regan1985 ------------ 7300GS ------------- 174
AphexDreamer --------- X1300 -------------- 160
newtekie1 ------------ 7300LE ------------- 158
kwchang007 ----------- Mobility X1400 ----- 143
vnL ------------------ 9600XT ------------- 126
newtekie1 ------------ X300SE ------------- 80

 

[newtekie1]

no one said the 7 sries sucked in ogl from what i could tell in everyother opengl bench we have the 7series kicks ass

Yeah, your'e right. I guess I was just remembering this post by you wrong, or I read it wrong at first.

I was thinking you said everything after G70(meaning G71/73). My mistake, now that I go back to it I see you mean the G80 series sucks at opengl.

 

[cdawall]

o lol yeah post 7950 ogl support seems to have got the back burner to well DX10

 

[Tatty_Two]

I didn't realzie the 2600s were only using a 128b BUS Odd for ATI to do something like that - makes me wonder, though, if the 2600 could potentially be flashed to utilize more

You cant flash for greater memory bandwidth cause it's just not there.

 

[Tatty_Two]

what does indeed puzzle me, which makes me believe something is amiss with the bench itself is:

1) older gen ATI cards scoring higher than latest cards

2)heavy reliance on CPU power (this IS meant to be a ogl graphics bench)

3)compared to other OGL benchies, like the fur/ripple etc, reguardless of cpu power/clocks, the older to latest gen hardware scale their scores accordingly. Indicating reliance on the GPU processing power rather than CPU etc.

4) Well, just that this test aint that "secure" lol

5) Three other seperate ogl benchmarks previously used clearly show the scaling of power between the cards, in this bench it appears to be a free for all

Because in some Open GL apps they prefer pixel pipelines rather than stream/shader processors and rastors engines?

 

[newtekie1]

I've notice that this benchmark seems to have a memory leak or something. Every time I run it, it gets progressively lower scores. After I scored 82.2 I ran it again right away and scored a 78, then ran it again and go a 72, then again and it was down in the 62 range after a reboot it got back up to 82.

I didn't realzie the 2600s were only using a 128b BUS Odd for ATI to do something like that

Why it is odd? ATI's mid-range cards have always had 128-bit busses, with a few rare exceptions.

 

[cdawall]

it did the opposite when i did it when i did it with the cpu at varying speeds i ran it one after the other and it would randomly go up or down

 

[giorgos th.]

Q6600 @ 3600mhz - 8800GT @ 771/1890/950

 

[imperialreign]

Why it is odd? ATI's mid-range cards have always had 128-bit busses, with a few rare exceptions.

I guess I just never payed it that much attention - ATI has always liked to be as efficient as possible with GPU mem. IIRC, though, my other ATI cards have had higher BUSes, but it's ben a while since any of them were installed

 

[fothsn]

Cant see how my HD2900XT @ 850/1000 is getting beat by lower spec cards dosent add up this benchmark tbh,

 

[Solaris17]

got another 2.8 Ghz 8600GT after my recent mods at 725/1650/825 and screenie.

 

[Lillebror]

I think its actualy a good score for a 1950pro card =)