My system scored lower in tests compared to other programs that were similar to it.
My system scored lower in tests compared to other programs that were similar to it.
Hi everyone! Yesterday my computer really felt slow, so I decided to run a 3DMark test to see if other computers did better. I got super surprised by the results! (click here to see how my system compares). My graphics card ran about 30% slower than this exact same model with the same settings turned on. I need to point out that I was watching the temperature, and neither the CPU nor the GPU got hotter than 67 degrees Celsius. Also, I decided not to overclock (make it run faster) my processor above 4.3GHz because I already broke a CPU earlier in life (oops). Wait, let me clarify: even though I followed all the tutorials perfectly, my water-cooled computer crashed while at 4.5GHz and less than 70 degrees Celsius. So maybe it's not just me. Can you help me understand what happened? Also, could it be my power supply? (I have a 750W OCZ gaming PSU that I bought back in 2016 when I was very new to computers, but I know better now, and it shouldn't really matter, right?) Thanks so much to all of you for your help.
You're trying to beat Marc-4362 and Gaunknown on your score? Did you turn off all power saving settings for your graphics card? The average clock speeds tell me no, but maybe something else is hiding there. Other two players went deeper with their own graphics cards than you did. Marc keeps the core clock pretty much where yours is, but Gaunknown pushed it even further by almost another 100 megahertz. You didn't change your memory speed, while those others bumped theirs up by at least 100 megahertz too. The other two also have a lead on their CPU overclocks. Here are the numbers again: you're at 4.5 ghz, Marc is at 4.6 ghz, and Gaunknown is at 4.3 ghz. Those extra speeds let your CPU feed more frames to the GPU while processing things. 3D Mark doesn't always show RAM speeds because they should be updating that feature instead of leaving it hidden on some systems. So right now this is just unknown for them too, and maybe they have an edge over you here. Bottom line: You didn't push your whole system as hard as theirs did.
Thanks for the replies! Where do I turn off these power saving settings? Just in the drivers or also in Windows? After running another test later, I got a similar result (over 6k points) to what I was comparing with. Then I ran it again and came back down to a 5k score.
You can keep your Windows power plan set to High Performance. I don't really know much about the Radeon settings, but they have options that save power, like Ichill or Cool and Quiet. There is also a feature called Radeon Wattman.
How did you get rid of your last CPU, was it an i5-6600k? I've been running systems way past limits for over a decade and only seen slight performance drops on two CPUs out of twenty. Maybe need more voltage like vcore... have you checked power supply voltages: 12v, 5v, 3.3v? Is vcore stable when I'm checking in the BIOS monitor?
You have just over 4K speed. The closest competitor has a huge edge, runs at 4300. The guy with the biggest advantage runs 4777. Your CPU is actually pretty good for what it is. But this matters because your computer's power limits how much work your graphics card can do, so those two other people will naturally get better scores on their graphics. Your processor feels stuck and slow while you run a race in the first ten meters of 100 meters. That specific OCZ chip isn't helping you at all and causes problems with stability. You can't just copy other people's settings because every computer is different, so copying what someone else did won't work here either. It might look okay on paper, but it never really works in practice. The theory says that CPU speed matters the same way no matter which part of your computer you use, but real life shows that things are not always like that.