3DMark2003 CPU scores 5% slower using Catalyst 4.3!

[Jon Leech]

Just updated the Catalyst drivers to 4.3 for my 9600XT, and it seems to have
slowed down my system somewhat...

GT4 - Mother Nature is about 1% faster, Pixel Shader is 10% faster, fill
rate for multi texturing is 5% faster, but CPU Score has dropped 5%!

Anyone else experienced this?

First score is using Catalyst 7-962, second score is using Catalyst 7-991
(4.3)

3DMark Score - 3833 / 3839 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury - 142.2 / 142.2 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon - 23.4 / fps 23.3 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair - 21.5 / 21.5 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature - 23.6 / 23.9 fps
CPU Score - 700 / 668 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 - 75.1 / 71.7 fps
CPU Test 2 - 12.9 / 12.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) - 913.6 / 913.6 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) - 1831.3 / 1926.7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader - 13.1 / 13.1 fps
Pixel Shader - 2.0 32.1 / 35.5 fps
Ragtroll - 15.1 / 15.1 fps
No sounds - 65.7 / 66.6 fps
24 sounds - 60.1 / 59.9 fps
60 sounds - 53.5 / 53.3 fps

Spec:
3.2GHz Pentium 4 (800MHz FSB + HT)
Asus P4C800Deluxe Motherboard
2x 512MB DDR3200 Memory
Asus 9600XT Graphics Card
2x 120GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm in a RAID0 array
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard

Cheers,
Jon

 

[John Russell]

Just updated the Catalyst drivers to 4.3 for my 9600XT, and it seems to have
slowed down my system somewhat...

GT4 - Mother Nature is about 1% faster, Pixel Shader is 10% faster, fill
rate for multi texturing is 5% faster, but CPU Score has dropped 5%!

Anyone else experienced this?

First score is using Catalyst 7-962, second score is using Catalyst 7-991
(4.3)

3DMark Score - 3833 / 3839 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury - 142.2 / 142.2 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon - 23.4 / fps 23.3 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair - 21.5 / 21.5 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature - 23.6 / 23.9 fps
CPU Score - 700 / 668 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 - 75.1 / 71.7 fps
CPU Test 2 - 12.9 / 12.4 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) - 913.6 / 913.6 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) - 1831.3 / 1926.7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader - 13.1 / 13.1 fps
Pixel Shader - 2.0 32.1 / 35.5 fps
Ragtroll - 15.1 / 15.1 fps
No sounds - 65.7 / 66.6 fps
24 sounds - 60.1 / 59.9 fps
60 sounds - 53.5 / 53.3 fps

Spec:
3.2GHz Pentium 4 (800MHz FSB + HT)
Asus P4C800Deluxe Motherboard
2x 512MB DDR3200 Memory
Asus 9600XT Graphics Card
2x 120GB Seagate SATA 7200rpm in a RAID0 array
Creative Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard

Cheers,
Jon

I would think many have given up on 3dmark as we don't know from one moment
to the next if either 3dmark, or the drivers arn't doing something to either
optimise or circumvent optimisation. And this isn't just a Nvidia problem as
most think. I doubt very much if ATI would make a big thing about being told
by Futuremark that they found optimisation in their previous drivers which
they have now removed.

 

[JLC]

Just updated the Catalyst drivers to 4.3 for my 9600XT, and it seems to have
slowed down my system somewhat...

GT4 - Mother Nature is about 1% faster, Pixel Shader is 10% faster, fill
rate for multi texturing is 5% faster, but CPU Score has dropped 5%!

Well from all that I've read about the 4.3 drivers it's clear that they are
a tiny bit slower, but there a lot faster when it comes to 2.0 Pixel
Shader's. So it's a trade off. If you have games that can benefit from the
PS boost then great, if not roll back. JLC