AMD performance issues 3DMark11 and Heaven

[der8auer]

I'm usually only benching Nvidia cards but had the chance to test a 7970 Matrix. So benched vantage, 3DMark11 and Heaven yesterday. Checking my scores I'm missing about 10% everywhere but I have absolutely no idea why and where. Just did another 4 hours of testing but could not fix it... AMD/ATI is not my cup of tea so I'm not that much into their drivers. Maybe you have an idea?

 

Setup:

i7-3770K @ ~6,0 GHz 4C 8T

HD7970 Matrix ~1500/1900

Maximus V Extreme

 

Let's start with 3DMark 11. My score:

http://img.hwbot.org/u12933/image_id_943285.png

Random score with quite same clock speeds but a lot higher score:

http://img.hwbot.org/u6911/image_id_866002.jpeg

 

 

Heaven:

http://img.hwbot.org/u12933/image_id_943270.jpg

Score for comparison:

http://img.hwbot.org/u37/image_id_859528.jpg

 

I tryed 12.11 beta 11 and 13.2 beta 6 drivers. Both had about the same result.

 

Driver settings:

AA - Application controlled

AF - Application controlled

Tessellation - Off

Catalyst AI - Performance, Enable surface format optimization

Mipmap - High performance

AA Mode - MSAA

D3D configuration - geometry instancing

OpenGL - Triplebuffering

 

I also used D3DOverrider but no change.

 

Any idea? Is AMD just trolling me or am I trolling myself by not knowing something important?

 

Help is highly appreciated

[Splave]

yeah lower your mem clocks, if you push them too hard you will not fail or have artifacts but it will throttle performance. Try 1800/1850 before you press on.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

exactly what Splave said, I had to drop down to 1780 on the memory to get good efficiency.

 

Also make sure your secondaries and tertiaries are nice and tight for pt and ct on 11.

 

16.52k-17k is doable at those clocks.

[der8auer]

Thanks guys! Will test and report whether it worked.

[phil]

All the above and also might be temperature related.Try a little bit less cold(if you play at -140,try at -80) .

[Massman]

I assume you're running v1.0.1 ?

 

Physics test seems low too.

[Splave]

also check gpu-z drop down box and make sure IGPU is not active, newest bios fixed this issue but takes two seconds to check and make sure

[rbuass]

Memory GPU... +1

[der8auer]

All the above and also might be temperature related.Try a little bit less cold(if you play at -140,try at -80) .

 

I keep my card at about -82 to -84°C. If I go lower the card starts bugging.

 

I assume you're running v1.0.1 ?

 

Physics test seems low too.

 

Yes 1.0.1. Also tested 1.0.3 but no change.

 

yeah lower your mem clocks, if you push them too hard you will not fail or have artifacts but it will throttle performance. Try 1800/1850 before you press on.

 

Interesting but didn't help. Just rechecked with 1750, 1800 and 1850 MHz. Score is always increasing a little. Still missing about 10% in total

 

1500 / 1800:

 

1500 / 1900:

 

 

Got the tip to use a different board. So will check again with a GBT board tomorrow. Meanwhile if you have any other ideas - let me know. And thanks all for the help so far!

[Farjam]

I think Physics score is a bigger problem Vs Gpu score problem, if your setting and 3dmark11 version are correct, you must Give 15K Physics score with this memories and 3770k @ 5.7Ghz

i can get your score score with 3770k @ 5Ghz on water

 

http://8pic.ir/images/2h36891kpjhbois3uey.jpg

seems someting is wrong with your bios settings

 

, with 6.2Ghz you must Give atleast 16300 physics score and then your overall goes up around 16400

 

did you try to set on or off extreme tweaking in bios and test twice with these two condition?

or maybe your IGPU is on in bios?

[Splave]

Try gen 3 pcie?

[Xtreme Addict]

Change PCIE slot or change board. Make sure you force 2.0 or 3.0 generation I and Perica had the same issue on M5E during AOOC. PCIE generation was 1.0 despite the fact forcing 2.0/3.0 in bios, sometimes it changed during restarts to 2.0/3.0 and we had normal efficiency

[der8auer]

I think Physics score is a bigger problem Vs Gpu score problem, if your setting and 3dmark11 version are correct, you must Give 15K Physics score with this memories and 3770k @ 5.7Ghz

i can get your score score with 3770k @ 5Ghz on water

 

http://8pic.ir/images/2h36891kpjhbois3uey.jpg

seems someting is wrong with your bios settings

 

, with 6.2Ghz you must Give atleast 16300 physics score and then your overall goes up around 16400

 

did you try to set on or off extreme tweaking in bios and test twice with these two condition?

or maybe your IGPU is on in bios?

 

iGPU is off. Checked several times. Also tested the different tweaking options but no change.

 

 

Try gen 3 pcie?

 

Change PCIE slot or change board. Make sure you force 2.0 or 3.0 generation I and Perica had the same issue on M5E during AOOC. PCIE generation was 1.0 despite the fact forcing 2.0/3.0 in bios, sometimes it changed during restarts to 2.0/3.0 and we had normal efficiency

 

Forced PCIe 2.0 and tried both x16 slots. Did GPU-Z show PCIe 1.0 then or did it still show 2.0?

[xxbassplayerxx]

W7 64-bit?

[der8auer]

Yes

[rbuass]

Looks for you are running centered benchmark.

Change to performance level, stretched if you are.

 

good lucky

[der8auer]

It seems like I fixed it. Used a different MVE of a teammate and the performance looks alright now. Same OS, 1:1 same BIOS settings. I have no idea what's going on with the other board. Will report back after benching with LN2.

[der8auer]

Physik score fixed. Still trying to find the GPU score problem...

 

http://hwbot.org/submission/2370931

 

edit:

 

@ ronaldo: I already used stretched but that didn't change anything. As I still only get about 3300-3400 at heaven with these clocks I think the issue is not benchark related. But will test more tomorrow.

Edited April 2, 2013 by der8auer

[der8auer]

Performance seems to be fixed even tho I have no idea why. Used a different Windows 7 and installed all drivers like I did before. Looking better now:

 

[hwbot=2371375]submission[/hwbot]

 

[hwbot=2371374]submission[/hwbot]

 

 

Thanks anyway guys!