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3DVantage P9677 score with Radeon HD 4890...

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Mortagon

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I just built a new comp and put Windows 7 on it. I bought an i7 920 quad core, 6 gigs of 1600 DDR3 RAM, and a Radeon HD 4890 1 gig expecting pretty good performance, but my 3D Mark Vantage score is only P9677 with a gpu score of 8433 and a cpu score of 17367.

Vantage Score info

I've installed the 64 bit windows 7 ATI Catalyst drivers for a 4890, specifically the version 9.5 package, though I have not installed the Windows 7 WHQL driver package. Initially I installed the Windows Updates for Windows 7 when I booted up my computer for the first time, though I later reinstalled them thinking this was the cause of my lower score with no significant change. My score was 9673 before the uninstall and 9677 afterwards. Should I be using different drivers? Is there anything I can do in particular to boost my score? I'm pretty unhappy with my performance in games such as the Sims 3 as well so far. Any help would be very appreciated.

This is an HIS Radeon HD 4890 by the way.
 
it's a little low as I'm getting anywhere from P13,850 - P14,000 with a GTX 275 SC with simular specs using the recent hotfix version.
 
That seems like a pretty huge difference I think, would the WHQL drivers make a difference? Should I use non-ATI drivers instead, or do anything else to boost what I am getting? I'm at a loss here
 
Originally posted by: footballrunner800
Doesn't vantage use physx on nvidia hardware inflating the cpu score?
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Yea, the drivers use PhysX acceleration by default. The 3DMark Vantage score system is designed such that the PhysX test is counted as a CPU test, even though it may run on a PhysX PPU or nVidia GPU.

You can disable PhysX in the nVidia control panel, that should give a score that is more directly comparable to AMD cards.
Otherwise nVidia cards will generally score a few thousand points higher simply because they accelerate the PhysX test.
 
Originally posted by: footballrunner800
Doesn't vantage use physx on nvidia hardware inflating the cpu score?
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you got me but I just installed a 8800 GT to use as my dedicated PHYSX card and my computer score went down tremendously but I did max out the PHYSX scores actually beat out an MARS GTX295 😀
 
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