Terrible 3dmark11 results

[Sebol7]

Hey everyone, i'm new to these forums (but have read them for ages!)

I got my 2 new Radeon 7950 HD's in the mail today and installed them, downloaded the latest beta drivers and decided to give 3dmark11 a whirl.. and the results have me stumped, clearly quite a bit of information isn't making it through futuremark. see here: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7368726

3dMark11 reports that they are running at 300 / 150, but in GPU-Z both of them are running at:
GPU Clock: 1053 Mhz (Stock 925 Mhz)
Memory: 1401 Mhz (Stock 1250 Mhz)
Bus Interface (PCI-E 3.0x16 @ x8 1.1)

Graphics Score 18636
Physics Score 1047
Combined Score 1382

The video card I replaced was a Zotac AMP!2 GTX 580 3gb (it's moving into my other PC, and i caught the radeon's on a nice deal recently!)

my PC Specs:
i7-2600k w/ boost clock to 4.2ghz
ASRock P67 Extreme4 Motherboard
8gb DDR3-2133 (xmp profile enabled in bios)
2x XFX Double D FX-795A-TDKC Radeon HD 7950 Black Edition in CF
Corsair 1200W PSU
128gb SSD primary / 2x 1TB HDD's data

Any help would be very appreciated!

 

[fullinfusion]

Its probably picking up the lower power state. Did you run a proper driver cleaner before the 7950 install? Also did you install the latest patch from 3dmark?

 

[brandonwh64]

Do a full uninstall of the AMD drivers then use then AMD uninstaller then use driver fusion to delete the stuff the uninstaller didn't get then reboot and install the latest drivers or betas then once you reboot again disable ULPS using the utility below

http://www.overclock.net/t/1088266/ulps-gui-config-utility-enable-disable

 

[Melvis]

Try the 13.4 Drivers

 

[DOM]

Your gpu score seems right 18k but the test that uses the cpu look way off

 

[Sebol7]

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies!

I've come to think this is more CPU and Memory related, especially considering the healthy graphics score. I had tested my GTX 580 prior to the swap so I had a reference of how much I would gain from the swap. The problem persisted in that test but I didn't think anything of it. I just thought.. this is why I'm replacing the card. It scored a total of 3104 (but i didn't even look at the individual scores)

I have gone through twice now the mass-uninstall of all video related drivers on the system and am currently running the latest beta AMD Catalyst drivers.

I even just updated to the latest beta BIOS on my motherboard since something seems finnicky with the XMP profile to achieve 2133mhz memory, but that's what it is spec'd for, and thankfully everything is acknowledging that speed.

I have dug multiple times in the BIOS to find all Thermal Throttling settings and disable them (I may be missing some, but need to know what else to look for there) -- and am still yielding the same results in 3dmark 2011.

I ran across a similar post where someone mentioned that a full reformat may be in order as that's the only way to fix this -- but i'm hoping that's a last resort!

 

[Blín D'ñero]

Do a full uninstall of the AMD drivers then use then AMD uninstaller then use driver fusion to delete the stuff the uninstaller didn't get then reboot and install the latest drivers or betas then once you reboot again disable ULPS using the utility below

[...]

LOL... there IS no stuff the AMD's uninstaller does not get (except maybe completely irrelevant stuff). AMD uninstall tool is 100% thorough, no third-party tool needed.

To the OP:
Your SystemInfo version is outdated, download the latest from Futuremark

Your graphics score seems right for 7950 crossfire. (mine is 20548, for 7970 CF @ 1175/1600)
Your problem is the rest of your system, hopefully the update fixes that.

 

[The Mac]

that 1200w power supply is a bit overkill however...

 

[Hood]

As BDn said, you need the latest Futuremark SystemInfo to read your hardware correctly. Also you might try the latest benchmark they make, 3DMark 2013, see if your results are better. Futuremark also just released PCMark 8 (free & advanced versions), for full system benchmarking.

 

[Blín D'ñero]

that 1200w power supply is a bit overkill however...

Better than underkill.

 

[The Mac]

I suppose, but 1200 watts for Crossfire 7950? Yikes...

 

[DOM]

that 1200w power supply is a bit overkill however...

Someone's jelly

I also run a 1200w psu corsair ax1200


@OP have you tried running the cpu at stock and one card at a time?

 

[Blín D'ñero]

As i do. Corsair AX 1200W