3DMark 11 Thread.

[Solid Lifters]

It's hard for me to help there since I have no experience with switching from Intel to Nvidia. But I read somewhere that you can go into the Nvidia Control Panel and set it to use the Nvidia graphics.

Found it. Did so. Ran test again and same results.

 

[David]

Is there some other software running from the laptop manufacturer that is possibly controlling those power save options?

 

[Solid Lifters]

Is there some other software running from the laptop manufacturer that is possibly controlling those power save options?

Maybe, I have yet to find it.

 

[Grayfox]

Maybe, I have yet to find it.

What laptop brand?


Toshiba have the "Eco Mode" which shows up on the keyboard as a green planet.

HP/Compaq have HP recommended power saver in the power options.

 

[Solid Lifters]

What laptop brand?


Toshiba have the "Eco Mode" which shows up on the keyboard as a green planet.

HP/Compaq have HP recommended power saver in the power options.

It's listed in the report I posted a few posts up. Actually, I ran the test again with different settings, and I still can't get the GT525 to run. Plus, my score is now LOWER! As the report below shows, the Intel graphics are still being used. I have not figured out to change it over to the NVIDIA GT 525.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/924538;jses...m11/924538?key=Ehq75DDhXZx2JqQkHL7hYh2hJcQKbJ

 

[nick09]

I don't see the laptop model information listed in the report. I also noted from the 3dmark page that the "Graphics Driver is not Approved". It could be saying that it does not support the Intel graphics card(what I would guess) or other reasons(there is information on the report about this).

 

[Solid Lifters]

OK, I didn't know you guys couldn't read the entire report so I posted it below. Also, here's the link to my laptop... http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Samsung...hite/2235132.p?id=1218315006844&skuId=2235132



Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor

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Processor clock2594 MHz
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Physical / logical processors1 / 8
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# of cores4

Intel HD Graphics 200

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# of cards1
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SLI / CrossFireOff
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Memory68 MB
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Core clock0 MHz
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Memory clock0 MHz
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Driver nameIntel(R) HD Graphics Family
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Driver version8.15.10.2253
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Driver statusNot FM Approved
GeneralOperating system64-bit Windows 7 (6.1.7600)
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MotherboardSAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. RC512
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Memory6144 MB
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Module 12048 MB Samsung 9 @ 667 MHz
Module 24096 MB Samsung 9 @ 667 MHz

Detailed scores3DMark ScoreP763
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Graphics score671
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Physics Score5060
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Combined Score618
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GraphicsTest12.9 FPS
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GraphicsTest22.99 FPS
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GraphicsTest34.21 FPS
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GraphicsTest42.2 FPS
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PhysicsTest16.06 FPS
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CombinedTest2.88 FPS SettingsDefault settings usedYes
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EditionBasic
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Screen Width1280
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Screen Height720
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Msaa Sample Count1
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Texture Filtering ModeTrilinear
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Max Af Anisotropy1
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Tessellation Detail5
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Max Tessellation Factor10
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ShadowMapSize5
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Shadow Cascade Count4
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Surface Shadow Sample Count16
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Volumetric Illumination Quality5
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Ambient Occlusion Quality5
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Depth Of Field Quality5
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Enable Window ModeOff
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Enable Vertical SyncOff
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Enable Triple BufferingOff
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Enable WireframeOff
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Color Saturation100%

 

[nick09]

It seems Samsung also include battery management software, I'd check that. If that did not work then I'd see if you can set the Nvidia graphics in the BIOS. When you see the "SAMSUNG" text in boot press F2 and it will load you to the BIOS menu. The menu is controlled with the arrow keys, enter and Esc. Go to the advanced menu and there should be a setting there about the graphics card. Since I can't find any detailed pictures of the BIOS I can't help you past this point. It's best to read the manual for more in-depth information(I checked the manual online but that did not give much information, maybe better information came with your laptop). The main point in doing this is to set the Nvidia graphics as the primary card for the laptop to use.

 

[Solid Lifters]

It seems Samsung also include battery management software, I'd check that. If that did not work then I'd see if you can set the Nvidia graphics in the BIOS. When you see the "SAMSUNG" text in boot press F2 and it will load you to the BIOS menu. The menu is controlled with the arrow keys, enter and Esc. Go to the advanced menu and there should be a setting there about the graphics card. Since I can't find any detailed pictures of the BIOS I can't help you past this point. It's best to read the manual for more in-depth information(I checked the manual online but that did not give much information, maybe better information came with your laptop). The main point in doing this is to set the Nvidia graphics as the primary card for the laptop to use.

I was affraid it was coming down to this. I want to avoid fooling around with the bios as much as possible. But, looks like I've got no choice.

I've fooled with the battery management as much as I could. I still can't get my laptop to stop shutting down my screen when I close the lid or stop it from going into sleep mode. I did the best I could there, already.

Tanks for the help, though.

 

[nick09]

Yeah just concern yourself with only the display options. I was glad to help you in any way.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Checked the BIOS and nothing there video related.

Done.

 

[nick09]

Then I can't help you in any other way. I guess the best thing to do is just leave it alone if the graphics switches properly in games.

 

[Grayfox]

Soild their should be a switch on the side to switch between onboard or the GPU, unless it is in the nvidia control panel.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Soild their should be a switch on the side to switch between onboard or the GPU, unless it is in the nvidia control panel.

No to either.

Here's a pic of what I usually face. Notice one scan has NVIDIA Cuda and one doesn't. When clicking on Cuda, you can see my 525M.

No NVIDIA Cuda listed

With NVIDIA Cuda listed and selected displaying Geforce GT 525M details

Compare my results to the specs of the GT 525M

 

[Grayfox]

If their is no switch on the side it may be on top above the keyboard or it may be a keyboard button you will have to press(FN+key)to do this, have you looked in the user manual at all on this subject? as this is overlooked a fair bit.

If i could get the model of the samsung laptop as i could not find it i could see if i can find it on samsung's website for you.

Edit: It is on page 57 when you download the manual, it talks about using the graphics more efficiently and how you can do this using the nvidia optimus function in the nvidia control panel.

 

[Solid Lifters]

If their is no switch on the side it may be on top above the keyboard or it may be a keyboard button you will have to press(FN+key)to do this, have you looked in the user manual at all on this subject? as this is overlooked a fair bit.

If i could get the model of the samsung laptop as i could not find it i could see if i can find it on samsung's website for you.

Edit: It is on page 57 when you download the manual, it talks about using the graphics more efficiently and how you can do this using the nvidia optimus function in the nvidia control panel.

Yeah, I found that before but wasn't sure how to use it. The manual helps out with that. Thanks! 👍

I switched over the the 525 and videos look so damn dark. I've got settings to adjust. I hate doing that.

 

[Grayfox]

In which app are you playing back videos?

Other wise you will need to adjust it in the nvidia control panel.

 

[Pako]

Well, got a modest P91xx using the latest beta drivers on my single card setup. I'll have to switch out to some stock drivers and check the performance out again. It might be a while as I have been having so much fun playing Crysis 2 across 3 monitors at a 5760x1080 resolution. Finally got the Nvidia surround vision working, so far with Crysis 2 and Bad Company 2 being my 2 favorite titles.

 

[David]

Link please!

 

[Pako]

Link please!

Ok so.... Still running Beta Drivers. And I guess I do have 2 video cards, although one is dedicated Physx.

Here my P9197.

Honestly, I thought this card would have pushed a little harder. Now I need to squeeze another 1200 points out of it.

Edited: Did a couple tweaks, and squeezed a couple more points out on the next run. Here's a P9633 run.

 

[David]

Ah a 590... Thats two gpus in one card. Are you saying you have another physical card doing physics, or are you able to set one of the gpus on the 590 to do that?

 

[Pako]

I used to have x3 GTX 280's. I recently pulled them out, put a 590 in, and put in one of the 280's for physx.

So technically I have two cards, and x3 gpu's. I do have plans adding a second 590 later this summer. That will provide 4way SLI and will probably dump the 280 all together. In that configuration, you can always go 3way SLI +1 gpu just for physx.

In any case, everything is water cooled so it's a pain to change anything around. I had some front USB connectors installed wrong, but they were behind the video cards. I kept it that for over a year because I didn't want to drain the lines, pop the graphics cards out, they re-prime the lines. LOL I did, however, fix it when I had the cards out for the GTX590 Hydro install.

Here's some interesting Comparisons between your run dchPSUone and my run. Running dedicated physx has it's advantages which you can see, but your GPU scores are awesome!!!

My 590 runs at stock GPU core clocks of 630, I have little hesitation pushing them over 700mhz per side. As far as temps go, at idle they both run at 31C, under full load, they hit 39C and 36C respectively. Tese GPU's should run comfortable up to 85C I would think. That leaves a LOT of room in my estimation. Not sure if voltage will handle it though. I will NOT do any voltage bumps on this card, waaaaaaay too many exploding cards at even a .2v increase.

 

[David]

Ah okay, thats a nice setup. I feel your pain with the water cooling. I would have added a second card sooner if not for the water... When I finally did add it in I managed to get liquid in my psu and blew it up while re-priming.. So that was fun lol.

Ive got the cards running on a pretty decent overclock with the voltage increased. Havent had any problema with it at all. Those 500s definitely seem to run cooler but my temps aren't bad at all. 28-30 degrees at idle and mid 40s playing stuff like crysis 2 or bfbc2. Temps on my cpu actually dropped after I added the second card into the loop.

Thanks for throwing up the comparison.. I was about to pull up both links myself to look.

Also, I did my runs with my hyper threading turned off for my cpu. I wonder if it affects 3dmark scores mu ch one way our the other.

 

[Gabkicks]

here is a run with my new 6950

P5880 3DMarks

 

[G.T]

here is a run with my new 6950

P5880 3DMarks

Just bought one of these too! Not had the balls to overclock it that much yet haha.

Got 5564.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2928163

My OC on my i7 is now 3.56ghz rather than 3.8 before. I can't seem to raise it anymore than 3.56 anymore to keep 100% stable ever since I added 4GB more of RAM. Can only think the RAM is not as good as my other pair... :-/

Edit: 5752

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2946149;jsessionid=wjjlc1jcj9151a3fhwndvvnje

 

[Pako]

Just bought one of these too! Not had the balls to overclock it that much yet haha.

Got 5564.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2928163

My OC on my i7 is now 3.56ghz rather than 3.8 before. I can't seem to raise it anymore than 3.56 anymore to keep 100% stable ever since I added 4GB more of RAM. Can only think the RAM is not as good as my other pair... :-/

Nice! It's odd that you can't get a stable 3.8. Are the timings the same for all your ram?

Anyways, I should rerun my 3dmark test also since I have some different hardware now...

Here's my non-qualified driver run:
P13517 3DMarks

Graphics Score 19133
Physics Score 7479
Combined Score 6791
GraphicsTest 183.76 FPS
GraphicsTest 289.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 3122.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 459.47 FPS
PhysicsTest 23.75 FPS
CombinedTest 31.59 FPS

 

[G.T]

^ God damnit.

And the timings appear the same. It's the exact same model of RAM except the new set is a slightly earlier model with an end 24 timing rather than a 21 on the sticker, but the G.Skill forum says it's absolutely fine to match the timings between them.

I had a lot of issues getting one of the new sticks of RAM to detect in the system (wasn't the socket as I tried another stick and it was fine.). So I'm wondering if that has anything to do with it...

Edit: Oh and FYI, my 6950 seems to hit a wall after that benchmark I tested it with. Literally anymore than 1 or 2 mhz core I have to increase voltage drastically to keep it stable. And that equals temperatures I don't really want to run at. So it'll have to wait until I ever buy a watercooling solution for it.

 

[David]

Nice! It's odd that you can't get a stable 3.8. Are the timings the same for all your ram?

Anyways, I should rerun my 3dmark test also since I have some different hardware now...

Here's my non-qualified driver run:
P13517 3DMarks

Graphics Score 19133
Physics Score 7479
Combined Score 6791
GraphicsTest 183.76 FPS
GraphicsTest 289.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 3122.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 459.47 FPS
PhysicsTest 23.75 FPS
CombinedTest 31.59 FPS

Ahh you blew me away this time. Trying to hold off at least another year before I do a complete rebuild. Its funny how much the Physics test number goes down even with all the power you have when you don't dedicate a card to it.

 

[Hollidog]

Nice! It's odd that you can't get a stable 3.8. Are the timings the same for all your ram?

Anyways, I should rerun my 3dmark test also since I have some different hardware now...

Here's my non-qualified driver run:
P13517 3DMarks

Graphics Score 19133
Physics Score 7479
Combined Score 6791
GraphicsTest 183.76 FPS
GraphicsTest 289.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 3122.54 FPS
GraphicsTest 459.47 FPS
PhysicsTest 23.75 FPS
CombinedTest 31.59 FPS

🤬 Would need to see a screen on that one.

Curious that the combined score is lower on this run, do you think this is because you are using more juice? Im asking because I want to crossfire some of the new size GPUs at the end of the year but Im afraid I might be power-limited.

 

[nick09]

P5230. Not bad I guess. Could really make the score jump if I were to overclock. This is stock settings on the FX-8120. For some reason it thinks my memory is at 1333MHz, it's actually clocked at 1600MHz.