My HD7850 OC only scored 7.3 from WEI??

[blackened23]

With the earliest drivers several months ago and GTX 680 SLI, I achieved a WEI score of 7.1. Now I haven't used those drivers in months BUT the take home point here is that WEI is worthless. No serious bench marker should ever take it seriously, use 3dmark11, an actual game, or heaven.

 

[GotNoRice]

WEI is just supposed to be a very vague and general measurement.

You will sometimes see software that will recommend a minimum WEI measurement, like 3 or 4...

 

[alexruiz]

Just to repeat what many have mentioned. WEI is useless as absolute benchmark, but WEI was intended to provide a relative measure of performance only. After finding out what similar components are scoring, you know that if your score is much lower than the average, something is going on with your system and configuration. Examples:

- Catalyst control center performance slider dialed to quality. I had a HD5770 score 6.1 because of this.
- Hard disk of 6.9 with a Sf-2281 SSD? Even the lowly agility 3 60GB scores 7.9 in sata 3 systems. My laptop is sata 2 and I still score 7.9 (Sandisk extreme 120GB 24nm toggle NAND) A sub 7.0 score with a SF-2281 SSD indicates that probably you have no clue of what "partition alignment" means
- Sub 7.0 memory score with DDR3-1600? Probably you have them running in single channel.
- 7.4 graphics with GTX680 SLI? This probably means that your sLI setup is right, wei doesn't like multi gpu configurations.

I see the WEI just as indication of how things are tweaked in a specific system, either right or wrong.

 

[Isura]

FWIW I get 7.9 for my Sapphire 7850 OC edition on stock settings.

 

[Arkaign]

WEI is trash, has basically no purpose vs. legit benchmarks other than a quick super vague overview that may not even be remotely accurate. Seriously, I had a STOCK 2.2Ghz C2D notebook score a 7.1 on CPU (WTF?), while right next to it a Phenom II X6 1090T @ 4.4ghz scored 7.2. Yeah, those two CPUs are totally similar!

 

[jacktesterson]

Trash Tool.

I have my 7770 in my desktop (Installing my new 7870 tomorrow) and got a 7.5