New Card, Bad 3DMark Score

cyberneticimplant · Post by **cyberneticimplant** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:57 pm

Booooo!!! I never expected a 7900GS to score this low. Looks about the same to what other people are getting with this card though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150208

I haven't ever seen a review of a 450mhz 7900GS, but I expected more than this on stock settings. I'm sure with an overclock I can bring it up, but I need to spend another $30 to replace the stock cooler first. Should have bit the bullet and gotten that X1950Pro when it was on sale, it would have been more cost effective.

hainer36 · Post by **hainer36** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:59 pm

thats not too bad, i get 12k with the rig in my sig, and the big difference would probably be the 1gb of ram compaired to the 2gb most people have nowadays

Post by **dicecca112** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:05 pm

cyber tomorrow at some point I'll bench my GT and see what I get. The clocks are about the same. As for a cooler grab the VF900, great cooler, my HWbot scores are mostly obtained with an air cooler.

But I think that score is right. Most oced GSes top out at 10K

werty316 · Post by **werty316** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:41 pm

Considering the GS is a bit slower than the GT, that score seems normal but it is a bit low but not by much.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/content/377/11/

7900GS Specs:
Core Speed - 450MHz
Memory Speed - 660MHz(1320MHz effective)
Fill Rate - 9000 MTexels/s
Vertex Shaders - 7
Pixel Shaders - 20
Memory Bandwidth - 42.20GB/s

7900GT Specs:
Core Speed - 450MHz
Memory Speed - 660MHz(1320MHz effective)
Fill Rate - 10800 MTexels/s
Vertex Shaders - 8
Pixel Shaders - 24
Memory Bandwidth - 42.20GB/s

The 7900GS has been known to be a good overclocker so you could try that.

tomato · Post by **tomato** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:38 am

I'd say that score is on par with stock speeds as well... Time to OC that sucker ;)

cyberneticimplant · Post by **cyberneticimplant** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:24 pm

OC to 495/1410 raised the score to 7959, getting closer to that 10,000, and now I'm beating the guy with the Acer mobo.

Do you think it is worthwhile to use Arctic Silver instead of the paste they provide? I am considering the VF700-Cu or VF700-AlCu. Hopefully the XFX bracket won't get in the way.

sushrukh · Post by **sushrukh** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:37 am

Maybe u'll get better results with the future Nvidia drivers.

Post by **dicecca112** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:57 am

if he's on XP there won't be anymore. The 9x.00 series of drivers was the last to support cards for XP. All future drivers will be used for vista