Techgage Benchmark Scoring Thread

[DarkSynergy]

Here are our top ten lists for various popular benchmarks spanning GPU, CPU and memory synthetic tests. If you have a great score and want to be included in one of the top tens, just make a new post and add an attachment of the feat as proof. This will not only let us keep the thread updated with your latest runs, but also give other users an idea of what settings were used in the achieving of the scores. If needed, the included benchmarks can be downloaded from the links provided at the bottom of the page.

Thank you and good luck!

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Video Card Benchmarks

When posting a score for a video card benchmark, be sure to include the exact card model and whether or not you are using a multi-GPU configuration.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

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Rob - 20,591 (8800 GTS 512 SLI, Intel C2E QX9775 x 2 @ 4.0GHz)
Merlin - 17,715 (8800 GT SLI, Intel E8400 @ 4.0GHz)
bl1k1 - 14,851 (8800 GTS 512, Intel QX9650 @ 3.8GHz)
sbrehm - 14,149 (8800 GT, Intel E6750 @ 3.6GHz)
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sbrehm - 448.6 (8800 GT, Intel E6750 @ 3.6GHz)
bl1k1 - 318.7 (8800 GTS 512, Intel QX9650 @ 3.8GHz)
Rob - 313.5 (8800 GTS 512 SLI, Intel C2E QX9775 x 2 @ 4.0GHz)
Merlin - 303.6 (8800 GT SLI, Intel E8400 @ 4.0GHz)
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When submitting a score here, be sure to mention the CPU model and speed at which it's overclocked.

Cinebench R10 Multi-Thread
Rob - 29,008 (4.0GHz / Intel C2E QX9775 x 2)
Merlin - 7,866 (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
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Rob - 109,391 / 104,463 (4.0GHz / Intel C2E QX9775 x 2)
Merlin - 33,023 / 28,323 (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
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Rob - 1,011,291 / 547,036 (4.0GHz / Intel C2E QX9775 x 2)
Merlin - 250,824 / 116,381 (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
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Merlin - 8.00 / 8.01 (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
Rob - 5.21 / 5.32 (4.0GHz / Intel C2E QX9775 x 2)
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Merlin - 12.521s (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
sbrehm - 13.734s (3.6GHz / Intel E6750)
werty316 - 21.328s (3.0GHz / Intel E2140)
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sbrehm - 14m 25.969s (3.6GHz / Intel E6750)
Merlin - 14m 48.494s (4.0GHz / Intel E8400)
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You can download the benchmarks we use here... but please don't hotlink.

Futuremark 3DMark 2006 1.10 (http://download.deathspawner.net/3DMark06_v110_installer.exe)
Lightsmark 1.3 (http://download.deathspawner.net/lightsmark_2007_13.msi)
Cinebench R10 (http://download.deathspawner.net/CINEBENCHR10.zip)
SiSoftware SANDRA XII 13.12 32-Bit (http://download.deathspawner.net/sandra_lite_xii_1312_32bit.exe)
SuperPi 1.5 Mod (http://download.deathspawner.net/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip)

[Merlin]

FutureMark06 17715
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5865825

Lightsmark2007
302.7
SuperPi 1 mill 32 mill

[Merlin]

Cinebench

CINEBENCH R10
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Tester :
Processor : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
MHz :
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : WINDOWS 32 BIT 6.0.6000
Graphics Card : GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2
Resolution : <fill out="" this="">
Color Depth : <fill out="" this="">
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Rendering (Single CPU): 4080 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 7866 CB-CPU
Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.93
Shading (OpenGL Standard) : 6076 CB-GFX

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[Merlin]

:confused:Yeah....now you can tell me I did it wrong....LOL

Merlin :techgage:

[Rob Williams]

I have no idea about those SANDRA. There will be two results for each listed... ones an Integer result, while the other is floating-point.

I am going to bench soon and I'll upload the scores. I'll edit out that post since it's kind of long.

[Merlin]

I have no idea about those SANDRA. There will be two results for each listed... ones an Integer result, while the other is floating-point.

I am going to bench soon and I'll upload the scores. I'll edit out that post since it's kind of long.
That's Kewl :D

I wasn't sure

Merlin :techgage:

[sbrehm72255]

OK, lets get a few of mine up for my little ole system.

3D Mark 06 => 14,149

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4355944

[Merlin]

OK, lets get a few of mine up for my little ole system.

3D Mark 06 => 14,149

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4355944
How are you going to put up the SISoft scores?

[sbrehm72255]

Not sure yet, I really have run them in a long time, more than likely just take a screen shot of the results if I can. But I need to boot into Windows first to check it all out and run it a few time to be sure.

[Merlin]

Arithmetic
Processor Bandwidth
Multimedia

Merlin

[werty316]

Looks like I'll have to do some quick benchmarking.

[Rob Williams]

I haven't had much time to overclock, so all I've done right now is the Skulltrail machine. I'll benchmark my regular machine as seen in my sig sometime this week. As for SANDRA, the results we need are the Int/Float (Multi-Media) and MIPS/MFLOPS (Arithmetic) from both... it will be displayed in that order in the results.

The results here are from an overclocked Skulltrail machine:

2 x QX9775 @ 4.0GHz
4GB FD-DIMM DDR2-800
2 x ASUS EN8800GTS 512 (780/1840)

[Rob Williams]

OK, lets get a few of mine up for my little ole system.

3D Mark 06 => 14,149

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4355944

Can you run that Lightsmark again? Your score is 50% higher than cards in SLI for some reason. I am just not sure if that's entirely accurate!

[sbrehm72255]

It might not like SLi or something, don't know, but I'll run mine again at stock GPU clocks just to see what I'm getting.

OK, just ran it again at LightsMark defaults (when the program starts) and at the system settings shown in the pic and I still come up with 448. A friend of mine gets about 50 FPS less on his AMD based system but running the same clocks on the card.

[Merlin]

It might not like SLi or something, don't know, but I'll run mine again at stock GPU clocks just to see what I'm getting.

OK, just ran it again at LightsMark defaults (when the program starts) and at the system settings shown in the pic and I still come up with 448. A friend of mine gets about 50 FPS less on his AMD based system but running the same clocks on the card.
We are not that far in CPU Mgz and FSB and you are killing me in FPS......maybe I'll take out one card and try that again, just on Lightsmark
Or maybe Lightsmark can't handle SLI ?
:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Merlin]

Well, that was disappointing
non SLI gave a little better score, but nothing like sbrehm's

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[sbrehm72255]

Or maybe Lightsmark can't handle SLI ?
:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

That's sort of what I'm thing, but I have no way to test it....................:D Try disabling SLi instead of removing a card, that should work as well.

Strange, there has to be something in your settings that's holding your system back. What is your card clocked to??

May also have something to do with your drivers and OS that you're running, I'm running 169.21 drivers on XP with just about all services disabled.

[b1lk1]

Little 3D Mark 06 action

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5905977

Little over 14.8K running 3.8GHz on the CPU and 700/1025 on the video card.

I just ran Lightsmark too: just over 318

[Rob Williams]

I'm becoming increasingly confident that the blame is on Vista. Bill, Merlin and I are all using Vista and receive ~300 point scores, while sbrehm is uses XP and scores 50% higher.

If that's the case, then it's rather pointless to include it within our top ten. It's obvious that a single 8800 GT doesn't outperform SLI 8800 GTS 512 by 50%, and since we all don't run the same OS, competing there is nonsense.

I'll reboot this machine soon to XP and run the bench there to verify that this is indeed the case.

[sbrehm72255]

I agree that it's a Vista issue now after chatting with a few friends, they are all running XP with 8800 GT/GTS cards and are scoring 400 plus in the test.

[Rob Williams]

Yes, it is due to Vista, but I am unsure of the exact reason there is a difference. I ran FRAPS at the same time on both OS' and the resulting scores from those were identical to what Lightsmark spit out.

We'll keep the scores for now, but anyone who uses Windows XP will have an obvious advantage.

[sbrehm72255]

Boy, that's a bad performance hit that you get from using Vista, I heard Vista was tough on system performance, but I would have never thought that it was so much.

[Rob Williams]

Well, there is something wrong here somewhere. Gaming is most definitely not 50% faster under XP. I haven't done any recent benchmarks, but I should if I can find the time. But even without them, I know XP doesn't have such a massive advantage. I'd believe 5% - 10% increases, but nothing like Lightsmark shows.

I am skeptical about that benchmark, but won't settle on it until I find out why there is such a stark difference between the two OS'.

[sbrehm72255]

I'd be interested in seeing how well ATi based cards do in this test performance wise between XP and Vista. Everything I seen so far is Nvidia based cards. It could be that the Nvidia SLi drivers are at fault.

[b1lk1]

But I am not running SLI and I score just as well as you guys using SLI. Obviously it doesn't properly recognize SLI under Vista.

[sbrehm72255]

Does anyone on the forums run a ATi card under Vista (HD3870) or something close to the 8800GT performance so we can see if its just the Nvidia Vista drivers.

[THUMPer]

eh. I have an HD2900. but xp 64. So...no. haha

[Rob Williams]

I can run the test on an ATI card tomorrow, as I'll hook back up my main machine for that purpose. I e-mailed the developer of the benchmark and also looked at the source code and couldn't see anything that would favor XP over Vista.

I hope to hear back from the developer so we can figure this out.

[Merlin]

Boy, that's a bad performance hit that you get from using Vista, I heard Vista was tough on system performance, but I would have never thought that it was so much.
Vista is a RAM eater for sure, that's why I went with 2 gig of RAM on this machine

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[sbrehm72255]

I'm currently limited to 2 gig or DDR3 period (only have 2 DDR3 slots) but I can go back to DDR2 if need be, the board also has 4 DDR2 slots, so at least I have the option if I need more. I would be nice if they made 4 gig sets of DDR3, but even if they did, I'm sure that I couldn't afford it.

[Rob Williams]

Lots of memory manufacturers carry 4GB kits, but most of them lack in overall frequency or with the timings. Average 4GB kits are equipped with DDR3-1333 speeds with a CL of 8 or 9 and retail for around $350 - $400.

[sbrehm72255]

I've honestly never noticed them at any of the e-tailers, but at those prices, I might just be better off going back to DDR2, I think I can get 4 gig for a quarter of the DDR3 prices depending on where I shop.

[Rob Williams]

Oh there is no question. You could get 8GB of DDR2 for cheaper than 2GB of DDR3... it's a no-brainer as far as I am concerned. If you were looking for the absolute best performance, then DDR3 would make sense, but it's still a huge premium.

[werty316]

21.328s

[Krazy K]

Well, I want my own page in wikipedia one day but for now I'll settle for a few spots on the top benchmarks scores. I ran the SiSoftware memory bandwidth and got a 9549 on the int and a 9504 on the float measured in MB/s. This is a new system and haven't done much work to it so I can hardly believe that I start at the top. Look here (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x38/fordman32508/sisoftwarememorybandwidth.jpg).

[Merlin]

Well, I want my own page in wikipedia one day but for now I'll settle for a few spots on the top benchmarks scores. I ran the SiSoftware memory bandwidth and got a 9549 on the int and a 9504 on the float measured in MB/s. This is a new system and haven't done much work to it so I can hardly believe that I start at the top. Look here (http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x38/fordman32508/sisoftwarememorybandwidth.jpg).
Nice 16X multiplier there.....
My Asus board and AMD X2 6000+ died...I think the PCI slot

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Krazy K]

Thanks, I've been out of the game a while so I'm going to pretend that I know exactly what that multiplies.

[Merlin]

Thanks, I've been out of the game a while so I'm going to pretend that I know exactly what that multiplies.
With CPUz ( a small program to see your CPU ) you can see many things about your proccessor.
Your CPU has a 16X mutiplier, so when you overclock that chip, you can use it in multiples of 16.


:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Krazy K]

Not to be rude or anything, but if I burned something out and before I smash it to bits can I get my name added to that memory list?

[b1lk1]

Just got my second 8800GTS back from RMA:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6331247

16.6K with the CPU @ 3.8Ghz and the cards stock. I can't wait to play with this later.......

[Merlin]

Just got my second 8800GTS back from RMA:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6331247

16.6K with the CPU @ 3.8Ghz and the cards stock. I can't wait to play with this later.......
We'll wait. I curious as well..
Nice 3DMARk score....now push it a little more

http://service.futuremark.com/home.action?resultId=5865825&resultType=14
17715 with the E8400 system

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Rob Williams]

Sorry for missing these new additions guys, I'll check them later tonight.

I've added 3DMark Vantage to the table, so feel free to begin submitting those scores!

[Merlin]

3DMARK Advantage score is really bad on first run

P4359 :mad:

Best score (http://service.futuremark.com/resultAnalyzer.action?resultId=38667&resultType=19) so far with everyone is P21903


I'll have to check on the q9450 machine next

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Krazy K]

Don't feel bad, I ran Lightsmark 2007 and got 23.

[Krazy K]

I'm jealous of all the lightsmark scores in the 300-400 fps range. Is there that much of a different between the 8600 and the 8800? Most of you have SLI it seems and I don't think that I care enough about the graphics to invest that much more into getting my score higher. I see that the evga 8800GT is about 130 after rebate, will I notice a substantial increase in frames or will it be marginal?

[b1lk1]

SLI doesn't do diddly squat for this benchmark. A single 8800 GT will get you there. You will get a substantial increase over an 8600.

[Merlin]

I'm jealous of all the lightsmark scores in the 300-400 fps range. Is there that much of a different between the 8600 and the 8800? Most of you have SLI it seems and I don't think that I care enough about the graphics to invest that much more into getting my score higher. I see that the evga 8800GT is about 130 after rebate, will I notice a substantial increase in frames or will it be marginal?
Not on that benchmark, I took one card out and got a better score :eek:

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Merlin]

3DMARK vantage scores are terrible...lol
Compared to the list at ORB, it looks like I have an PIII system
I was already thinking of getting the Ageia card for the PCIe slot....damn, was it just PCI or PCIe.....have to go check again

But it seems like the test uses Physics in the tests.

What kind of scores are others getting? Anyone here getting low scores?


:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Kougar]

That's the point of releasing new benchmarks, they have to reset the scores to lower levels for next generations of hardware. ;) My scores were definitely low for a 8800GTS @ 650/1500/1900 clocks, having only 320mb of RAM definitely hurt them.

The test uses CPU based physics, so unless it was also designed explicitly to detect a PPU and run on it you wouldn't see any boost from adding a physics card. Getting an Agiea physics card just to raise your 3DMark score is a bit wonky, you'd get better results putting that $80 into almost anything else. :)

[Merlin]

New 3DMARK Vantage score
14219 (http://service.futuremark.com/results/showSingleResult.action?resultId=76307&resultType=19)

Overclocked the 8800GT a tad
Core clock to 703
Shader to 1752

CPU OC'd to
3.703
FSB 411

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Rob Williams]

Whew, sorry for the late update. I'll tackle this Monday.

[Merlin]

Strange video problem when using the performance test.
In Jane Nash ( first test ) the water in the cave rises and then fills the screen....at a point you can see what is under the water.
And Jane always checks me out when she is on the cat walk, just before the jump to the crate....She likes me I guess :rolleyes:

Anyone else seeing the same thing?

:techgage::techgage: Merlin :techgage::techgage:

[Kougar]

Strange video problem when using the performance test.
In Jane Nash ( first test ) the water in the cave rises and then fills the screen....at a point you can see what is under the water.
And Jane always checks me out when she is on the cat walk, just before the jump to the crate....She likes me I guess :rolleyes:

Oh, well that explains it! You were dreaming... :eek:

[Krazy K]

What setting is Lightsmark run on?
1280x1024 window or fullscreen

[Rob Williams]

Anything here would be default. Sadly, as soon as we created this thread, it got abandoned fast. I think we need a lot more forum support before something like this can be kept up. It's hard when there is only a few people participating.

[Krazy K]

Well other than having nVidia driver issues which prohibit me from doing anything video related, I did post a memory bandwidth benchmark and nothing happened.