BFG 7800GTX512 with singlecore and dualcore test [Archive]

guess2098

11-21-2005, 08:12 PM

air and no mod
BFG 7800GTX 512 SLi
AMD OPTY146 3G
AMD OPTY170 2.9G

146 @ 3G
http://premium1.uploadit.org/guess2098/7800/3G_1core.JPG

170 @ 2.9G
http://premium1.uploadit.org/guess2098/7800/29G_05.JPG

i try 170 with 3G and the score on game 1 went up like 5 FPS when it started but blue screen follows...
dual core will serious take over single core...

perkam

11-21-2005, 08:31 PM

Wow...2.9ghz DC Opty > 3ghz SC Opty by almost ~1000 points ... Nice Find.

Perkam

guess2098

11-21-2005, 08:36 PM

even faster then 3.1G FX57

`SippY

11-21-2005, 08:41 PM

wow, thats sick

-47-!

11-21-2005, 09:33 PM

what drivers are you using Nvidia supports dual cores in the 81.'s

Vapor

11-21-2005, 09:47 PM

That's sick man....perfect timing for the FX60 too!

dinos22

11-21-2005, 09:51 PM

nice find there....it's only gonna get better for dual cores......good time to own dual core OpterOWN for me :D

revenant

11-21-2005, 10:12 PM

Dude - that settles it... I am getting a 170 or 175.. :) That's a great bit of info.

Vapor

11-21-2005, 10:16 PM

-47-!, he's using 81.94s....

guess2098

11-21-2005, 10:20 PM

just remember don't ever buy 0541rpmw

zakelwe

11-21-2005, 10:48 PM

I assume the gains are in GT1 and GT2 ? Bigger improvement than I thought, although I assume this mainly helps in 05 rather than 03. I would imagine Far Cry gets a boost as well.

As the next 3dmark is supposed to be dual core based then it looks like the dual core FX60 (?) will be all the rage ......

Regards
Andy

eva2000

11-22-2005, 12:21 AM

guess2098

11-22-2005, 08:50 AM

seems latest forceware drivers optimised for dual core seem to optimise for 3dmark05 as you don't see that much boost from actual games if you read some of the reviews

i should have my Opteron 170 CCBWE 0544XPMW cpu tomorrow so can also test against FX-57 and Opteron 146 :)
hmmmm if forceware support dualcore on 3Dmark05, then games should got some help too. but i am not really sure about this. just like my name, guess

gocchin

11-22-2005, 09:31 AM

Very interesting results... do these dual core opty's have cold bugs? :)

eva2000

11-22-2005, 09:40 AM

unfortunately they do it seems

gocchin

11-22-2005, 09:44 AM

unfortunately they do it seems

:( Aw shucks...

DilTech

11-22-2005, 11:57 AM

Guys....

First, this isn't 3dmark05 dependant, it'll be the same on ANY 3dmark when using NVidia cards. 3dmark01-03-05 are all singlethreaded, try it yourself...Anyone with an ATi card can test that out themselves, they'll find I'm correct. The only part of 3dmark05 that is multi-threaded is the CPU test, the 3d test is 100% singlethreaded.

NVidia has been using multi-threaded drivers lately, and with every new revision the gain for going dual core increases. This happens with ANY game, and ANY benchmark... One of the reasons I'm eyeing a new dual core opteron myself, a free boost like that doesn't sound bad to me!

Stan

11-22-2005, 12:27 PM

hi

would u be able to run the test again with the 146 @ 2.9ghz?
that way we would get a direct comparison as the FSB + clock speed is the same

and we could work out how many % dualcore has adv

Stan

Vapor

11-22-2005, 01:09 PM

guess2098, can you upload these to the ORB or does the Dual Core Opty come up as an unknown CPU?

Hicks

11-22-2005, 01:16 PM

yeah very impressive, great news for CPU's.

Is there any news on ATI making X2 boosts in there Cats?

guess2098

11-22-2005, 03:39 PM

guess2098, can you upload these to the ORB or does the Dual Core Opty come up as an unknown CPU?

unknow CPU, and cuz i am still in top 4 XD
don't really wanna publish XD

afireinside

11-22-2005, 03:52 PM

So far all dual core opterons don't publish so if you can publish your 170 2k5 score can you do so for a few min to the orb?

DilTech

11-22-2005, 04:27 PM

yeah very impressive, great news for CPU's.

Is there any news on ATI making X2 boosts in there Cats?

Not currently, it's NVidia only... If ATi follow suit it'll be about 6-12 months before it makes it's way to us. Multithreaded coding takes major time, and NVidia has been working on theirs for over a year.

dinos22

11-22-2005, 04:32 PM

you guys talking about platform drivers or graphics drivers here

i've got the Expert board coupled with a dual core Opteron and X800NP card.....i'll be doing some testing with 3DMARK05......initial test at stock looks good...i'd say i'll be giving my 2.9GHz Opteron score a good hard run for its money with 2.6GHz dual core Opteron :toast:

macci

11-23-2005, 06:56 AM

Nice numbers there. Any chance of showing the Game Test FPS details? would be interesting to compare :)

eva2000

11-23-2005, 07:08 AM

well testing my Opteron 170 i realised chances of dual core opteron doing 2900mhz is alot less than single core opteron or fx-57 doing 3000-3100mhz, so realistically dual core still has some way before catching single core Opteron or FX-57 for average user

dinos22

11-23-2005, 01:15 PM

in my case dual core definately beat single..........

i beat my Opteron 144@2900MHz with dual core at 2600MHz and SLOWER clocks on GFX card (ATI X800NP)

Opteron 144@2900MHz single core + GFX OC was 439/1164........5,035 points
Opteron 165@2600MHz dual core + GFX OC was 429/1104.........5,065 points :D

amazing

http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/6421/3dmark0526ghz5065points4nl.jpg (http://img496.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmark0526ghz5065points4nl.jpg)

CrashOv3r1De

11-23-2005, 03:25 PM

Nice..Guess FX60 will be new king of the hill for 3dmark 05

dinos22

11-23-2005, 03:30 PM

Nice..Guess FX60 will be new king of the hill for 3dmark 05
as long as they clock OK under phase i guess.........as people are benching their FX57 PCs around 4GHz mark..........but with newer drivers optimised for dual core there's no doubt

have a look at this.......................i took a screenshot of my dual core at 2.6GHz (FX60 speed) against Jaffa's 3.41GHz Opteron and my CPU scores are still better than his ......it will be very interesting to see first FX60 benchmarks for sure

http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/5678/3dmark4rs.jpg (http://img364.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmark4rs.jpg)

Kunaak

11-23-2005, 07:42 PM

I was comparing my old scores, and found that my old score of 14965, with a 3.3 ghz A64 3700, OCZ VX 4000 at 235 cas 2-2-2-5-1T... and the videocard at 585/1450...

was easily beat by my Dual Core Opteron at 3.03 ghz... 2 gigs of Mshkin PC4000 at 260 cas 3-4-3-8-1T and the videocard only at 513/1370... daily speed.

from what I just saw, I see no reason at all that I can't beat my current best of 15450, with this Opteron 170 cooled alittle better, and switch out to my VX 4000 ram, and get the clock speeds back up to 621/1450...

might actually break 16,000 with this.
weird.

one note though.

CPU score without AMD 64 driver = 8400.
CPU score with AMD 64 driver =7800.

definatly avoid the A64 driver, in this case.

dinos22

11-23-2005, 08:27 PM

one note though.

CPU score without AMD 64 driver = 8400.
CPU score with AMD 64 driver =7800.

definatly avoid the A64 driver, in this case.
nice results with your one..........tell me what you meant by AMD driver....is that a separate download or a part of nvidia chipset driver package.....i assume it's the earlier one

also i can't find for the life of me those memory tweaks you or OPB or ben805 or someone here mentioned....apparently there were a few bios tweaks which are DUAL CORE CPU ONLY tweaks...would be nice to know what they were again....thought i'd ask someone who's likely to know this

Kunaak

11-24-2005, 12:24 AM

the AMD64 CPU driver is on AMD's website.

supposedly it gives huge boosts to PCMark2005 scores, but is useless for everything else.
so far, it hasn't helped me on anything, and in most cases brought my scores down.

the only other tweak I know of for dual core, is to add /usepmtimer to your boot.ini.
but again, that did absolutly nothing for me either...

so I haven't found a successful dual core tweak yet.

eva2000

11-24-2005, 12:27 AM

as long as they clock OK under phase i guess.........as people are benching their FX57 PCs around 4GHz mark..........but with newer drivers optimised for dual core there's no doubt

have a look at this.......................i took a screenshot of my dual core at 2.6GHz (FX60 speed) against Jaffa's 3.41GHz Opteron and my CPU scores are still better than his ......it will be very interesting to see first FX60 benchmarks for sure

dinos 3dmark05 cpu score can fluctuate alot and isn't comparative by a long shot i.e. here's my

Opteron 146 @3061mhz with 3dmark05 cpu score = 7484

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1448541

FX-57 @3120mhz with 3dmark05 cpu score = 8,141

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1177411

nachthymnen

11-24-2005, 01:22 AM

Gues,can I tell you what PSU do you use?

Piotrsama

11-24-2005, 03:27 AM

So, Nvidia multithreaded drivers are really taking advantage of both cores.
Nice

kiwi

12-18-2005, 01:22 PM

hmm, interesting dual core is really so much better. Obviously my next buy is definitely dual core. The only problem with opterons is cold bug at rather high temps. Was it the same with X2?

:toast:

dinos22

12-18-2005, 03:01 PM

5.12 driver is a killer dual core driver...........i got PBs left right and centre.......even managed a 30K score with a 12 pipe x800 vanilla card on 3DMARK01 and my PB 5288 point 3DMARK05......love dual cores :cool:

mnewxcv

12-18-2005, 03:02 PM

all the cpu tests are multithreaded too.

Hicks

12-18-2005, 05:20 PM

Not currently, it's NVidia only... If ATi follow suit it'll be about 6-12 months before it makes it's way to us. Multithreaded coding takes major time, and NVidia has been working on theirs for over a year.

You were saying? Look at 5.12 Cats;)