Quote Originally Posted by Lu(ky View Post
Hey guys I got my new eVGA 9800GTX's and ran a 3DMARK06 bench and scored a 20,774 @ 824/2400/2080 using display driver 174.74. Now I tried my eVGA 8800GT's SSC @ 760/2100/1850 and scored a 20,334 diplay driver 169.44? Why such a low score compared to the 9800GTX's?? Is it because of new display drivers??
169.44 gave me almost 1000 extra 3dmarks over 174.74 but the majority of what you are seeing is a cpu bottleneck. Either cards can render frames as fast as the cpu throws them out so 3dmarks will be similiar. Run 3dmark at 1920x1200 and you will see a much bigger difference.