*OFFICIAL* Alienware M18x Benchmark Thread

[DR650SE]

Looks like a new guy caught scooks unicorn. Benched a 15671 Vantage on a 17x R1. scook do you have the R1 still?

[scook9]

Na, sold that as soon as the M18x was announced haha - had to raise funds.

Link? Or is it in the M17x benchmark thread, I am VERY curious haha

[ARGH]

Still waiting for out-of-stock parts for replacement of my defective video cards. Here was my last best on Heaven benchmark back on 08/05/2011. This was running stock 680/900 clocks on the 6970s.

i don't get it. stock 6970 is beating the 6990 in heaven benchmark?

my stock heaven benchmark;

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even with 825 core i cannot even match your score.....

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i am wondering if it's immature drivers holding back the 6990m? maybe you can post a benchmark of original crysis?

[johnksss]

give me a sec argh.... i just ran a crysis one.
loading warhead now as well.

[ARGH]

please only use the in-game 32bit version benchmark gpu batch file and not 3rd party program. first run the game in 32bit mode and ensure all are very high spec and no AA. the 64bit version runs the game slower for some reason so just stick with 32bit.

here is mine with 825 core / 1000 mem on the gpu clocks but with stock 2720qm cpu.

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[johnksss]

i did that already. posted somewhere in this thread.





here is one fully maxed out



looking at mr fox score...very impressive. so with an overclock ...he should be like 21 to 22k

[Mr. Fox]

i don't get it. stock 6970 is beating the 6990 in heaven benchmark?
my stock heaven benchmark;
even with 825 core i cannot even match your score.....
i am wondering if it's immature drivers holding back the 6990m? maybe you can post a benchmark of original crysis?

No, I think it was just one of those lucky days that I had a great benchmark score. All conditions were just perfect at the time. I was running a driver-only installation without CCC and registry was hacked to force CFX to be permanently enabled, no PowerPlay throttling capabilities, etc. I was also using RadeonPro to disable all AMD "features" that slow things down. I no longer have that set of 6970s in my system and the cards I have right now are defective.

I ran another Heaven benchmark today after I posted my previous best and I cannot get a score that high even overclocked with my current 6970s. See attached for today's benchmark with 805/1075 clocks. (If I go higher than this with the current 6970s my system locks up and throws a BSOD in Heaven benchmark.) The attached Crysis benchmark was run on 08/12/2011 at stock clock speeds with the same set of 6970s that produced the higher Heaven benchmark score that you were commenting about.

[ARGH]

No, I think it was just one of those lucky days that I had a great benchmark score. All conditions were just perfect at the time. I was running a driver-only installation without CCC and registry was hacked to force CFX to be permanently enabled, no PowerPlay throttling capabilities, etc. I was also using RadeonPro to disable all AMD "features" that slow things down. I no longer have that set of 6970s in my system and the cards I have right now are defective.

I ran another Heaven benchmark today after I posted my previous best and I cannot get a score that high even overclocked with my current 6970s. See attached for today's benchmark with 805/1075 clocks. (If I go higher than this with the current 6970s my system locks up and throws a BSOD in Heaven benchmark.) The attached Crysis benchmark was run on 08/12/2011 at stock clock speeds with the same set of 6970s that produced the higher Heaven benchmark score that you were commenting about.

can you post the 32bit behcnmark gpu batch file with your current set of 6790;s at stock clocks and then one run at your overclocks? i am trying to see how much faster the 6990m is in a real game like crysis.

[ARGH]

i did that already. posted somewhere in this thread.





here is one fully maxed out



looking at mr fox score...very impressive. so with an overclock ...he should be like 21 to 22k

the benchmark batch file you used was the 64bit version. that version runs slow for some reason. i got about 15% better fps than you but that is with about a 15% gpu overclock so it makes sense.

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i would be very curious to see what you get with the 32bit batch file. i assume you did not mess with registry or catalyst.

[johnksss]

umm, no you didn't..... i think your seeing things..

and that is 32 bit on all runs.

and the last one is with 8xAA/Full AF plus full motion blur/ plus use application settings/ catalyst Ai high quality.
your run has none of that applied. and you can see my ccc settings right in the picture. along with forced motion blur which everyone tries to turn off for more fps in the bench.

go match that run and see what you come back with.