Really Low 3Dmark Score

**ROFL Copter** · January 01, 2011, 01:45 AM

Could someone explain this to me? I honestly don't get it. I have a Phenom ii x6 1090T @4GHz and a Radeon 6870, but my 3Dmark score is only 6776. Why on earth could this be? It makes no sense.

**mrcrusty** · January 01, 2011, 02:32 AM

GPU score is bugged. Could possibly be running at idle clocks for the test duration.

Nice OC on the CPU. What cooler are you using?

**Ishan** · January 01, 2011, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by mrcrusty

GPU score is bugged. Could possibly be running at idle clocks for the test duration.

Yes i suspect the same. Did you not run the test in fullscreen mode?

**ROFL Copter** · January 01, 2011, 06:04 PM

I did. What could possibly have gone wrong? I ran the test twice.

I am using a Hyper 212 Plus. Cheap, but is excellent. 22 C idle, around 30 on a gaming load, and hit 55 max on 10 hours Prime95.

**Ishan** · January 01, 2011, 06:53 PM

Use a program like MSI afterburner and check whether in game your G.card is running at full potential.

**ROFL Copter** · January 14, 2011, 10:39 PM

Ah. I forgot about this thread. I fixed the problem. Seems that whenever a video player such as youtube is open the amazing (HA) AMD drivers underclock the GPU to 300 MHz and lock it there. I don't even....

Now my scores are closer to 15-16 thousand on the GPU. That still seems kind of low however. Whats wrong now? Also, my CPU is only 19000 for a 4GHz hexacore. What??

**mrcrusty** · January 14, 2011, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by ROFL Copter

Ah. I forgot about this thread. I fixed the problem. Seems that whenever a video player such as youtube is open the amazing (HA) AMD drivers underclock the GPU to 300 MHz and lock it there. I don't even....

Now my scores are closer to 15-16 thousand on the GPU. That still seems kind of low however. Whats wrong now? Also, my CPU is only 19000 for a 4GHz hexacore. What??

The drivers underclock for a reason, it's to save on power consumption, it's not a bug.

2d clocks (idle), 2d clocks (general use/movies) and 3d clocks (games, full screen applications) seems to be how it handles things.

As for your Vantage runs, seems about right.

**ROFL Copter** · January 14, 2011, 11:26 PM

But it doesn't up it for games. If youtube is open it stays at 300 MHz no matter what else is open, even a game. Its crippling and theres no way to get rid of it.