Alcpone's Official 3dMark Vantage Compilation

[jbunch07]

Beer vollyball

that was hilarious!

 

[Boneface]

LOL i just wanted to see what i would get with certain settings. Stock cpu and card got me just over 12k. Stock cpu and OCed card got me over 14k. Next itll be both.


Edit: so here it is with it at 3.6ghz

 

[MAGMADIVER]

Please add this

This is my latest 3DMarkV score with 14392... I dont think I can get much higher with my current rig unless I add some more hardware...

 

[Tatty_Two]

Magma..... will that x2 not give you more?

 

[JrRacinFan]

Update me...

Bested my older Vantage run

 

[silkstone]

LOL i just wanted to see what i would get with certain settings. Stock cpu and card got me just over 12k. Stock cpu and OCed card got me over 14k. Next itll be both.


Edit: so here it is with it at 3.6ghz

how the hell are you guys getting over 30k cpu marks with E8xxx's?!?!?! my E3110 only gives me a little under 9000, even at 4.5ghz 2000fsb!!!

 

[JrRacinFan]

It's called Physx acceleration.

 

[silkstone]

lol - damn fake physx scores - how can they use it for a cpu benchmark? surely they should put a 3rd cat!

 

[Cold Storm]

Vantage is'nt a CPU benchmark. It's a Mix of both, more on the lines of GPU... Now, Mark06 will be the CPU hungry benchmark. To where Physx doesn't even work unless you have one of the cards.

Now, for the reasoning on Physx.. Their not fake, its just that instead of relying on the CPU do do it's OWN physx, the G92 and above chips on Nvidia have the ability for physx. Then the GTX 2xx series cards have their own Cuda built right into the card it self..

There is nothing faking about it. Just the fact that Newer Nvidia cards have the ability to take away the CPU's job of Physx.. Less strain on the chip..

 

[silkstone]

But there are no real mainstream games that utilize PhysX.....Yet So it's kinda bias towards nvidia cards for no real reason apart from it will work better with a few games

 

[SystemViper]

But there are no real mainstream games that utilize PhysX.....Yet So it's kinda bias towards nvidia cards for no real reason apart from it will work better with a few games

and it's still a good bench of the system and especially the GPU as long as you know what your really looking at in the numbers.

 

[Cold Storm]

But there are no real mainstream games that utilize PhysX.....Yet So it's kinda bias towards nvidia cards for no real reason apart from it will work better with a few games

Yes, you are right that there isn't more then 30 games that use Physx. But, that still doesn't mean that GAMES are the one true thing for computers.. There is other things in life for the use of this. Nvidia sees the fact on there being other things, and built a thing for it. To help out and build on the market..

and it's still a good bench of the system and especially the GPU as long as you know what your really looking at in the numbers.

Your right on that fact.. it's more of a system tool then anything else.. You can run Fur for stability of your card. 3 loops of the benchtest in a series will make sure that the card can run at those speeds for a duration of the time.. Then you have Prime95 (and others) that test the CPU at throwing 100% loads on the cores of the CPU. Some say 8 hours is the right amount to test, and some say more/or less... But, then you have Vantage. It's probably one of the best all in one stability tests out there. Do this 3 times in a row, no artifacts, no BSOD/or hard restarts, and you have a good system.. Or, at lease I have found that is has been good to do it that many times..

We have to remember that Games isn't the whole reason we do Benching. Whole reason that they develop things like Phsyx in the first place... IMHO

 

[silkstone]

Yes, you are right that there isn't more then 30 games that use Physx. But, that still doesn't mean that GAMES are the one true thing for computers.. There is other things in life for the use of this. Nvidia sees the fact on there being other things, and built a thing for it. To help out and build on the market..

But Vantage is a gaming benchmark, is it not? OK let's just leave it at that, i believe it's overly bias but that's just my opinion. I don;t want to start a Nvidia vs. ati war

 

[JrRacinFan]

But Vantage is a gaming benchmark, is it not? OK let's just leave it at that, i believe it's overly bias but that's just my opinion. I don;t want to start a Nvidia vs. ati war

I don't feel you are starting a war as I partially agree with you. BUT you will see more and more games utilize Physx acceleration very very soon

 

[Cold Storm]

But Vantage is a gaming benchmark, is it not? OK let's just leave it at that, i believe it's overly bias but that's just my opinion. I don;t want to start a Nvidia vs. ati war

Vantage is a benchmark to show the abilities of DirectX10. DirectX was built apon Multimedia aspects of the Computer.. Yes, Majority of it is gaming, but not all... So, there is no way to say that this is a thing built for GAMES alone..


Your not going to start a ATI/Nvidia war with myself... I'm not a fan boy of AMD/Intel or ATI/Nvidia. I wished I kept my AMD/ATI rig... But, that's life.. lol

 

[Fitseries3]

instead of complaining you could always take a look at this thread... http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=72035

i do believe i have a few top scores with ATI + Nvidia running physx in vantage.

 

[SystemViper]

I think that saying Vantqge will preform better with Nvidia is true,(it is Nvidia bias) Nvidia had a good idea and is implementing it. Anything takes time to integrate. But if it gives back cycles to the overworked CPU and puts them on a GPU, and especially when you can map that extra work to a specific card. Then it's great. I am all about efficiency. If it's ATI or Nvidia, who cares, it's a good idea. I thing ATI has a similar idea but i don't think it's as mainstream. I have both ATI and Nvidia cards, but i do Prefer Nvidia because i love 1GPU solutions and in my Opinion Nvidia has hte best solution. I have had several 4870's, 4850's and a 4870X2 so i am speaking from my expierience.

But back to the Topic. Vantage is just a measurment tool, you can see where you system and even better your GPU are tuned and find there optimal ranges, That is fun

 

[SystemViper]

Here's another little ditty and I keep climbing the stairs.....

 

[Cold Storm]

Nice run SV!!! I need to get another drive so I can duel boot and see how Win 7 is.. Or use xp... But, have TOO MUCH Anime to just whipe one drive clean...

 

[Binge]

But there are no real mainstream games that utilize PhysX.....Yet So it's kinda bias towards nvidia cards for no real reason apart from it will work better with a few games

That's a BS statement. Ever hear of Crysis?

 

[JrRacinFan]

That's a BS statement. Ever hear of Crysis?

Crysis is Physx optimized "??"

 

[Fitseries3]

instead of complaining you could always take a look at this thread... http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=72035

i do believe i have a few top scores with ATI + Nvidia running physx in vantage.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1106462&postcount=1451

 

[silkstone]

instead of complaining you could always take a look at this thread... http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=72035

i do believe i have a few top scores with ATI + Nvidia running physx in vantage.

Seen it, thx fits, i use vista and just sold my nvidia card not complaining per se i was just very surprised to see the cpu scores, knew physx brought them up but didn't realize by how much

 

[MAGMADIVER]

Magma..... will that x2 not give you more?

well I have it oc'd to 778Mhz on the core and 980 on the memory...Id have to alter the bios to get higher clocks...

 

[Tatty_Two]

well I have it oc'd to 778Mhz on the core and 980 on the memory...Id have to alter the bios to get higher clocks...

Does your CCC limit for the core not go upto 800? I flashed my card to allow for higher upper limit of 900, I noticed when I was modding the BIOS for my card that it's stock 3D voltage is 1.250v, In it's voltage register it gives me a dropdown option upto 1.35v, I am now wondering if I can increase the voltage through the BIOS, I dont really wanna try until the AC x2 Extreme cooler comes out as I think any voltage above stock on the reference cooler is gonna be a bit toasty