3dmark scores

by **SKID MARK** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:56 pm

Anyone that wants to post 3dmark scores or discuss issues. My recent score was 1642. I don't think its that good probably because of my vid card. I ran 3dmark version 2003. Any help would be great. :flame:

by **JimmyTango** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:02 pm

Yes, that vid card is a very large bottle neck for the rest of your system. I would look into a 9600XT.

by **BladeRunner** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 7:04 pm

My system:
cpu = AMD Barton xp2600 oc to xp2800
vid card = ATI 9600PRO
sound card = soundblaster pci16
os = Win98SE

by **Bagginses** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:04 pm

Here's mine:

cpu = AMD Athlon 1.05 Ghz
vid card = ATI 9600XT
sound card = NVIDIA Nforce
os = WinXP

-Bagginses

by **Slaughter** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:25 pm

ummm I never bench marked be-4, can anybody help me??????

by **Mugzy** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:47 pm

cpu = XP3000
video = 9600Pro
sound = SoundStorm
ox = XPPro

by **shockwave203** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:12 pm

Originally posted by Slaughter
ummm I never bench marked be-4, can anybody help me??????

go to futuremark.com, and download 3dmark03.

open your preferences for your video card (ATI control panel if you have a radeon) and set everything to minimum. Turn off Vsync, set the sliders to performance rather than quality, because you want to see how fast your card can run. Make sure AA/AF are off.

P4 2.4 Ghz
Radeon 9700 non-pro
Audigy II soundcard
3dmark03: 5014
OS: winXP

by **JimmyTango** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:22 pm

To be honest, 3dmark is a joke. It does not really 'prove' anything from it's benches, and is easily cheated on with driver releases, especially from nvidia.

What matters is in game performance.

by **MMmmGood** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:29 pm

5754 here

by **shockwave203** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:39 pm

Originally posted by JimmyTango
To be honest, 3dmark is a joke. It does not really 'prove' anything from it's benches, and is easily cheated on with driver releases, especially from nvidia.

What matters is in game performance.

it can be manipulated with driver optomizations, but now that everyone is aware that Nvidia and ATI had little cheats in there, they will be reluctant to do it again. Many people knew that Nvidia cheated big time when they released drivers for their FX line of cards to improve DX9 performance, (and yes, i'm aware that they did it in the past more than once as well) so doing it again would turn many many customers away.

3dmark isn't a joke, it's actually pretty accurate. When two systems are benched, one getting 4000 and the other 3000, the one with the higher 3dmark score will most likely run the game faster than the PC with 3000 points. ofcourse it's not completely accurate, but it's close enough and does what it's suppose to do.

by **Agent-Commando** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:43 pm

There was a patch released to counteract nVidia's optimizations already.

:roll:

by **JimmyTango** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:02 pm

I am sorry guys, the only thing 3dmark is good for is running a loop of it for about an hour to test for stability. Besides that, it is a joke of a benchmark.

Any in game benchmark shreds 3dmark to peices. '03 is also WAY to CPU dependant.

Agent, hate to break it to you, Nvidia still cuts corners, especially when it comes to lowering PQ for FPS, and this applies to ANYTHING it runs, not just 3dmark.

by **Weasel Meat** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:24 pm

How about some post from nvidia users.

I dont trust this benchmark at all after going from almost 20000 in the 2001 SE to this terrible score. I think that this benchmark is very biased towards ATI. A comparable system with an ATI card gets MUCH higher than the same system with an nvidia card.

All of my games run smooth at any resolution that I set it to with great frame rates. This includes framerates of 180-250 in RTCW with all ingame graphics settings maxed, and frames of 80-100 in BF1942.

Anyways here is my score

Athlon XP 2800+
1024MB ram
128MB ti4200
Hercules Fortissimo III

EDIT: Picture will not upload... score 1774

by **RCglider** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:28 pm

Originally posted by JimmyTango

What matters is in game performance.

I agree, but what 3dmark can help with is ruling out hardware issues. People tend to rely on it too much though.
It's fun to see just how high you can push your system.....sizzle, sizzle.....pffffft!

Note: 3dmark 2003 is more graphics card intensive, 2001 is cpu. Most hardcore oc'rs still use 2k1.

by **Weasel Meat** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:35 pm

try again...

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