How can your 3Dmark score be low?

[VIAN]

What kind of question is: Is my 3Dmark score low. I haven't been here for long, but I've seen it so many times. You got what you got. Your hardware isn't gonna give you anything different unless you change hardware or update drivers. This guy bought a 9800 pro and said it gave double the performance of his 8500 in 3Dmarks and he's still asking. I'd be pretty damn satisfied with that. Why?

 

[cmdrdredd]

some people forgot that 3dmark was not a game that you could play

 

[Jeff7181]

Because sometimes there's problems that you don't identify in a game, that you would by seeing a 9800 Pro score only 8500. For example... maybe the card is running at 1X AGP for some reason. Or maybe you have vsync enabled and don't want it enabled. Or maybe you bought a bargain brand 9800 Pro that has lower clock speeds. There is a use for 3DMark and similar benchmarks... you just have to be smart enough to know what it's useful for.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Ditto on the settings you have making a big difference. With V-sync enabled (which prevents some stuttering effects) my 9800 only got 6500 in 3Dmark2001. Disabled it jumped to 13,000. I can imagine the additional difference forcing AA/AF would make on top of that.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Speaking for me only. I use 3d mark 2001 SE to test my own system. Example: After I upgraded my video card to 9700 pro, I got 16656, then couple weeks later I got 16000. Something not right with my system. I found out that my ram setting is at 2-7-3-3 instead of 2-5-2-2.

To me, its just a tool to gauge new driver and hardware.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Generally people wan their rigs to at least be just about on par with other systems similar to theirs. But there is still the fact that there are a TON of newbies out there that get the card and think it's all they need to do to make their rig a gaming beast and then wonder why their P3 1GHz with their new 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro can't keep up with other 9800s despite the fact that those cards are backed up by 3+GHz CPUs.

And then, ofcourse, there is always that desire to have more. The everlasting desire to want more even after you've been given more than you could have imagined in the first place. "Oh why oh why can't it be xx faster?" People can just be too greedy sometimes and people will always want more frames and/or eyecandy even when they might already be given more than enough.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: VIAN
What kind of question is: Is my 3Dmark score low. I haven't been here for long, but I've seen it so many times. You got what you got. Your hardware isn't gonna give you anything different unless you change hardware or update drivers. This guy bought a 9800 pro and said it gave double the performance of his 8500 in 3Dmarks and he's still asking. I'd be pretty damn satisfied with that. Why?

Because someone told me it was low, thats why I asked. I said that in the thread. deal with it.