3DMark2003 Score: Radeon 9800 Pro

[Spawn666948]

Hey, All

How is it that I see people getting over 12000 on 3DMark2003 with a
slower system than mine?

My system is a 3.0 Ghz, 1 G Dual Channel, and Radeon 9800 Pro. ATI
driver 4.9. My score is only about 5900.

Thanks.

 

[JT]

No way you're gonna get 12000 in 3dmark2003 with a 9800 Pro unless something
very odd is going on. You sure it's the same vid card and/or that it's not
3dmark2001?

 

[Inglo]

Hey, All

How is it that I see people getting over 12000 on 3DMark2003 with a
slower system than mine?

You don't, the highest 3DMark03 score you'll find at Futuremark is just
over 8000 and it's been done by two people with extreme overclocking.

My system is a 3.0 Ghz, 1 G Dual Channel, and Radeon 9800 Pro. ATI
driver 4.9. My score is only about 5900.

Thanks.

That's exactly what you should be getting. That's about what everyone
who isn't overclocking their cards gets. I have my 9800 Pro slightly
overclocked, I get 6100.

 

[Spawn666948]

You're right, 12000 is kinda impossible. I think the machine I was
referring to was using 3DMark2001.

 

[Spawn666948]

Wow. I guess you're right. The guy must have linked to a 3DMark2001
version or something.

Have you tried playing Doom 3? I can't believe my system has poor
performance w/ this game. Even w/ Day of Defeat, it's not as smooth as
I would like it to be.

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[John David Carter]

Wow. I guess you're right. The guy must have linked to a 3DMark2001
version or something.

Have you tried playing Doom 3? I can't believe my system has poor
performance w/ this game. Even w/ Day of Defeat, it's not as smooth as
I would like it to be.

 

[The Berzerker]

Wow. I guess you're right. The guy must have linked to a 3DMark2001
version or something.

Have you tried playing Doom 3? I can't believe my system has poor
performance w/ this game. Even w/ Day of Defeat, it's not as smooth as
I would like it to be.
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At 800x600 at High Detail, everything on, including V-sync (triple buffered)
I get 55fps in the timedemo.

I also have a P4 3Ghz, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (cat 4.9), 1Ghz of Dual channel
400Mhz RAM etc.

What's your system scoring in the doom 3 timedemo then? (type timedemo demo
1 in the console, run it twice)

 

[Pluvious]

You don't, the highest 3DMark03 score you'll find at Futuremark is just
over 8000 and it's been done by two people with extreme overclocking.

That's exactly what you should be getting. That's about what everyone
who isn't overclocking their cards gets. I have my 9800 Pro slightly
overclocked, I get 6100.

WHOA WHOA WHOA.. No way 8000 is the highest! I just upgraded my 2.6C
proc to a 3.2E and ran all the tests. Check it out:

Aquamark3 ; 63,391
3dmark01 ; 21,959
3dmark03 ; 11,075
3dmark05 ; 4912

That's with no o/c on the proc but my X800 PRO is overclocked
506/499.50.

P4 3.2E Ghz 800FSB 1MB Cache / Zalman C7000A HS / Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
/ 1GB Corsair XMS DDR PC3200 / Xtasy X800 PRO (@ 506/499.50) /
DirectX9.0c / Omegas 4.9's 8.07betas / WD1600JB 160gig / WD1200JB
120gig / Lite-On DVDRW LDW-851S 8x / Creative Audigy Gamer / Nec 19"
FE991SB / Logitech MX510 mouse / Saitek Gamer's Keyboard / WinXP Home


Pluvious

 

[Kill Bill]

WHOA WHOA WHOA.. No way 8000 is the highest! I just upgraded my 2.6C
proc to a 3.2E and ran all the tests. Check it out:

Aquamark3 ; 63,391
3dmark01 ; 21,959
3dmark03 ; 11,075
3dmark05 ; 4912

That's with no o/c on the proc but my X800 PRO is overclocked
506/499.50.

P4 3.2E Ghz 800FSB 1MB Cache / Zalman C7000A HS / Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
/ 1GB Corsair XMS DDR PC3200 / Xtasy X800 PRO (@ 506/499.50) /
DirectX9.0c / Omegas 4.9's 8.07betas / WD1600JB 160gig / WD1200JB
120gig / Lite-On DVDRW LDW-851S 8x / Creative Audigy Gamer / Nec 19"
FE991SB / Logitech MX510 mouse / Saitek Gamer's Keyboard / WinXP Home


Pluvious

That was my first reaction too, but he (not so) obviously meant the highest
score for a 9800 Pro...

 

[Pluvious]

That was my first reaction too, but he (not so) obviously meant the highest
score for a 9800 Pro...

Ohhhhhh.. heh. I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

Pluvious

 

[Inglo]

Ohhhhhh.. heh. I see. Thanks for clearing that up.

Pluvious

I noticed the lack of clarity myself, but failed to rectify it. oops.

 

[SL]

New 9800 pro (oem) on Cat 4.9 and DirectX 9.0c
640 megs pc2100 (3 generic sticks)
AMD 2000+
Abit KD7a motherboard
WinXP Pro sp2
80 gig 7200rpm HD
C-Media 8738 5.1 sound


Scores:
3Dmark2003 - 5670

Many problems were incurred in getting the correct drivers to load. Some my
fault, others the software. Ati's "Control Center" is not exactly the best
thing I think. I have always had some sort of problem with it on all my Ati
cards over the years. I usually end up loading the Omegas to make things
work good. They seem the most reliable. But this time, I think I have a
good mix and the games look nice. This is up from same equipment with a
9500 pro getting an average score in the 3800+ zone for mark03.

 

[Spawn666948]

With Doom 3, I've been trying to play at 800x600 and even 640x480. I
use the default quality level. The only thing I adjust is the
resolution. I'm using ATI 4.9 drivers.

 

[Spawn666948]

At 800x600 at Hight Detail, everything on, including V-Sync, I get 42.5
FPS. Without V-Sync I get 55.4 FPS.

It almost seems like I get what everyone else is getting w/ a similar
system, but, the gameplay is sorta choppy on mine and you can see things
like the wall trying to catch up and re-draw.

Is Doom 3 really that resource intensive. Given the Minimal
Requirements for the game, I almost double everything. I just don't
understand. (

 

[JT]

Go to this site and you can see some advanced tweaking options. Some of
these help a bit for framerates without losing much quality.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Doom3_8.html

 

[Inglo]

At 800x600 at Hight Detail, everything on, including V-Sync, I get 42.5
FPS. Without V-Sync I get 55.4 FPS.

It almost seems like I get what everyone else is getting w/ a similar
system, but, the gameplay is sorta choppy on mine and you can see things
like the wall trying to catch up and re-draw.

Is Doom 3 really that resource intensive. Given the Minimal
Requirements for the game, I almost double everything. I just don't
understand. (

Turn on triple buffering in the openGL/3D settings of the control panel
if you're going to use vsync. Have you got the Doom 3 1.1 patch?

 

[JT]

Btw, using some of those tweaks I was able to run at 1024x768 at High
Settings. I have a 9800 Pro with a 2.4 P4 running @2.8. I do have a 1 gig of
memory which may be helping some as well.

 

[Andrew]

With Doom 3, I've been trying to play at 800x600 and even 640x480. I
use the default quality level. The only thing I adjust is the
resolution. I'm using ATI 4.9 drivers.

I still use the 4.4 drivers (and RefreshForce) on my 9700 Pro, Doom 3
is playable at 1024x768 with 2xAA and 4xAF. I haven't tried all the
later drivers, but the ones I have caused problems. I tried the latest
Omega drivers the other day and my Doom 3 framerate was awful for 20
seconds then the game crashed. The later drivers may be necessary for
the top end ATI cards, but for the older ones, 4.4 are by far the best
IMO.

 

[Newf !!!]

Doom 3, hmmm ,been a while since I played it last, but I did the
entire game in 1280x1024, 2nd highest settings. Was gettign around
44 fps in a timedemo. No tweaks, card at 380\360.

p4 3.0 gig, asus p4p800, Seagate 7200 ide drives, and kingston hyperx
512 pc3200 ram. nothing overclocked.


at the time it was the omega driver based on the 4.8 cats. Never had a
issue with doom 3 at all, besides the fact that it was boring.

 

[RonK]

What does Triple Buffering do ?
I have not tried that setting. Does it increase visual quality ?
Thanks