My "problem" is still that while I get a normal graphics, cpu, physics score my overall combined score is too low. I know this issue has been addressed before but still I haven't found or heard of a solution or what is the actual cause of the low performance score. I know that on the Futuremark site it has been stated that problem is: The issue is that... - The "official new way of detecting SLI setups" fails on far too many SLI systems. Original SystemInfo that shipped with 3DMark 11 does it like this and SLI configurations just hung before Test 6. So we had to revert it back to the "legacy" method. - The "legacy way of detecting SLI setups" works, but it can't tell normal SLI from SLI that is in Single GPU mode (from NVIDIA control panel) or Multi-GPU config that has dedicated PhysX card. - Test 6 (combined) load changes with the number of GPUs. In order to properly render the scene with multi-GPU, each GPU must have a copy of the GPU physics simulation running on it (using Bullet/DirectCompute) - otherwise the physics code would have to shuffle data between GPUs and that would slow things down horribly. Hence the benchmark needs to know how many GPUs you have. - If Test 6 gets wrong number of GPUs (in your case, I guess it gets "3"), the number of DirectCompute simulations running is larger than the number of GPUs actually rendering the scene, causing notable performance loss. With my setup I originally got a combined score of around 5600 points (old forceware 263,14 driver) which seemingly is too low also according to 3Dmark own health-meter. Now several months have passed and I decided to once again fire up 3Dmark11 with the latest patch. Before I used Forceware 280,26 which got me this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056 With the latest WHQL Forceware 296,10 I got this result: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3253056 Still even with newer drivers and the latest patch for 3Dmark11 the low Combined score issue isn't solved with 3 cards. Well I managed to get a bit higher combined score though - but still not getting 6000points there as 3Dmark11 lists as the target score. http://3dmark.com/healthcheck/3dm11/3253056 Is there any fix to this yet ? patch and newer drivers haven't help much since mid summer 2011.
think your cpu speed needs to be increase. min 4.0 preferably higher with tri and oc your cards. I can get about 13,000 with 2 cards http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3024782;jsessionid=fk8hmsz8ogxvp73de1bfjnx5
The CPU speed isn't the issue since it's in the normal range of the CPU type without overclocking. (Haven't got the time or lust/interest in overclocking hardware any longer) As addressed in the first post it's some sort of driver/futuremark card recognition issue when test 6 is initializing. This "bug" has existed for a year (almost) now, at I haven't seen any fix for it yet, but I don't know if I'm looking in the wrong place for the fix The combined score remains the same with 2 and3 cards.
- Check you are not running in compatibility mode. - maybe something to do with sysinfo. - I have seen some little thing like that on Hwbot forum. Try look or ask there. But as you seen in HWbot rankings, other dont look to have the same problem. http://hwbot.org/benchmark/3dmark11_-_performance/rankings?cores=3#start=0#interval=20 ( search for 3x580 or score on the second or third page )
1) Is checked- it runs in normal (admin mode). 2) That my be an issue. As stated in from futuremark there can be a problem with the 3 card detection in test 6. 3) Yea I see. The only problem is that everything is overclocked so you can't see what the original "base" score is. I so often see people "overclock out of their problems" - if their score is low then then OC it up and assume it's fixed...but with the removal of the OC the problem still lies dorment. Still thanks for the hint, I'll look around at their forum
Yeah, but if someone in the overclockers league have face this particular problem, they know how to fix for sure.. cause it will run them crazy to not have the score they should have.
The problem is that the 3 GTX580's are being heavily bottlenecked by the processor....which even Hilbert experienced on his OC'd test rig during his review of the cards. This is why others are "overclocking their way out of problems". Whether you like it or not, that is the solution.
lol 3 580s on a 870.. bro my i7 2600k at 4.8 bottlenecks my cards slightly at these clocks. stock 580s are fine though. your graphics score is 1000 points more than mine(16000), either new cpu or take out the 3rd card
dont blame futurmark. its your cpu like I said before. oc your cpu and take out that 3rd card. look at the fps in the tests 2cards me 3 cards you. your 3rd card looks like its barely used. doesnt p55 m/b have something like half speed pci e slots or something like that?
p55 has PCIe lanes that are rated 2.5GT/s compared to full speed lanes in sandy bridge 5GT/s. so yeah p55 x16 slot =s 8x sandy bridge slot. no it has 20 pci-e lanes. 16 lanes for the CPU alone and the other 4 dedicated to the chipset
Yes at 1280x720 resolution where the Performance benchmark is running the CPU is bottlenecking a bit. But in every day gaming I use 1920x1200 with max amount anti-aliasing this minimizing any bottleneck heavily. This guy is running at ci7 870 stock clocks too but with 2-way SLi and still he gets a higher combined score than me 6600points vs 5900points. http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1644271 That's why I think something is odd. Oh well I lost the 3Dmark logic when going from 3dm05/06. Unigine Heaven still scales like it should. Autumn 2011 I had ordered a P67 setup with core i7 2700K, but upon closer investigation I found out that I'd merely get 5-8% better performance than with the exsisting system at the settings I usually play at. That wasn't worth a $800 upgrade at the time. A new Ci7 3820 with a matching 3-way- SLi capable motherboard is something I'd like in a near future... but isn't likely to happen since I'm pretty broke.
So you are saying you compared a review with 3 580s with a 2700k vs 870? You cant do guess work with multiple cards. CPU bottlenecks become very apparent when adding another card, especially a 3rd. Couple that with the low bandwidth PCIe lanes of the P55 chipset and you are looking at at least a 30-40% gain in FPS all around.
The p67 nor z68 does anything usefull in that regard. Also by increasing the resolution and maximizing AA the cpu bottleneck gets considerably lower.
The other aspect wasn't about the futuremark problem at all - it's about when you hit at bottleneck, and that bottleneck really depends on a lot of settings. I know that at the 3dm11 Performance settings the CPU is bottlenecking somewhat.... but at extreme setting at 1920x1080 the bottleneck is much smaller comparing CPU OC vs Non-OC. This guy is running at ci7 870 stock clocks too but with 2-way SLi and still he gets a higher combined score than me 6600points vs 5900points. http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1644271 That's why I think something is still odd.:3eyes: I'm gonna pull one card out and test with 2-way SLi running stock.