3dMark 2000 score question

[compunerd632]

Hi, I just downloaded 3dMark 2000 and was wondering if 2028 3dMarks is good for an ATI Rage Fury 32mb?

 

[vss1980]

Its along the right lines, but I think it should be a bit higher that to be an 'average' system. Why not use the online result browser to check?

 

[Deeko]

Hey you know what I was thinkin? 3DMark really sucks. The score it gives you means absoluly nothing.

 

[vss1980]

Deeko, yep the score is actually a little pointless as there are many different variations in performance which could give the same score (for example a card could be great at something which isn't important and bad at the rest, while another could be a good all-round card and both get the same score).

But 3DMark itself is not a bad test. If you ignore the main score and look at the other information like fill-rate, polygon throughput, texture rendering speed, etc. This is where the real information is.

 

[Subversal]

I'd like to know how people get above 7500 with similiar systems specs when I can't get over 7000... blah it is baloney.

 

[StickHead]

SisSoft Sandra is a bigger joke. Yeah my new IBM 75GXP is slower than my old Western Digital!

 

[vicvon]

Hey Stickhead,

If you open Sandra and right click on Drives Benchmark and left click on Module Options and then uncheck Bypass Windows Disk Cache (for some reason disk cache is off by default). This should fix your problem.

Let me know what happens.

 

[Mathias]

I will have to deny that the score it gives you means nothing! First time I ran it I got 3150 (with it being overclocked)3dmarks with my radeon. With this I knew the card was not working right, and I pinpointed it too! After that I got it up to 4350 and fixed my high resolution rendering problem. My fps also jumped way up (about 50 fps in quake 2).