3DMark
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UL_Jarnis  [developer] Sep 28, 2021 @ 8:13am
Result is Good / Great / Excellent / Legendary achievement FAQ.
Result screen for normal non-stress test runs shows how good your score is compared to all other users with the same CPU and GPU.

Legendary score is in the top 1% of results
Excellent score is in the top 15% of results
Great score is in the top 30% of results
Good score is in the top 60% of results

- in comparison to results made with same CPU and GPU.

Edit: Important: This is not the same as online result page showing your score placement vs all 3DMark results ever submitted with that test. Those values are often 95%+ for modern gaming PCs as that indicator compares against all 3DMark results ever submitted, including random office PCs or gaming PCs from 5+ years ago, so surprisingly any modern GPU tends to be at the very top

The achievements do not use that value. They instead compare your result vs. all results from users with same CPU, GPU and number of GPUs (in case of SLI/Crossfire). You can use 3DMark search to see the score distribution for your hardware combination by just going to www.3dmark.com/search and choosing the test you are going to run and your CPU & GPU model and the graphs in the top show score distribution and average score for the combination. Beating that average should comfortably get "Good" rating.

This was already added a while ago to the UI and the new achievements just piggyback to this. A qualifying score must be run at default settings.

And yes, the top results tend to be from overclocked systems. A stock system with good cooling and no background tasks to slow things down usually hits a "Good" score, but the margins in the most common results are fairly small especially as most modern GPUs are very sensitive to temperatures. Just manually setting GPU fans to run at 100% during a test can easily be seen in the score.

And at least right now higher achievement will not trigger the lower ones, by design. If your OC is "too good" and you want the lower ones, you get to do some tweaking to hit the lower score ranges for the lesser versions.

Update: Known issue right now that if the combination of hardware is very rare (less than 100 results), the system cannot give the rating at this time. We're working on a fix to this. For SLI / Crossfire results note that this counts as 100 results with that GPU count.

Update2: Above known issues should be solved with 2.20.7290
Last edited by UL_Jarnis; Oct 21, 2021 @ 6:36am
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Lan Sep 28, 2021 @ 4:10pm 
you got rid of attainable achievements, why did you keep "Mystery Machine" which i'd say is less attainable than a fair few you got rid of...
Re'AL1st Sep 28, 2021 @ 10:53pm 
All that is needed for the "Legendary" achievement is graphics card with top cooling in a mesh case. I got achiev on the second attempt with small overclocking.
GH0STexe Sep 29, 2021 @ 10:36am 
Originally posted by Re'AL1st:
All that is needed for the "Legendary" achievement is graphics card with top cooling in a mesh case. I got achiev on the second attempt with small overclocking.
Как открыть ачивки по железу? Achieve a ***** score for your hardware. Прошел все тесты. Что ещё нужно сделать?
JG | Luxe Sep 29, 2021 @ 2:13pm 
Originally posted by Lan:
you got rid of attainable achievements, why did you keep "Mystery Machine" which i'd say is less attainable than a fair few you got rid of...

You'd be surprised.

I can get Mystery Machine 24/7 on my MacBook intel laptop running windows.
GTR989 Sep 29, 2021 @ 2:23pm 
Give back my OC Madness and all deleted achievrments
NORGOBGOATPIG Sep 29, 2021 @ 4:21pm 
hmm i cant get good/great etc been running the time spy normal for 2 days now here is one from tonight http://www.3dmark.com/spy/23198428
FaultyVi Sep 29, 2021 @ 7:02pm 
i cant seem to get any of them to pop, am i missing something?
/Y\ad/Y\atty Sep 30, 2021 @ 4:53am 
I've only had the Rating and Temperature achievements unlock in the steam version. I prefer to use the Standalone version where every last point counts. Also, it seems like if 3dmark doesn't get a response from the server in a 10 second window from test completion, you go unrated

I'm struggling with 'Good' for my setup (4790+R290). Score of 3772 = great and 3765 = unrated. Is good really in that 7 point window? ;)
Last edited by /Y\ad/Y\atty; Sep 30, 2021 @ 4:56am
Re'AL1st Sep 30, 2021 @ 8:00am 
Originally posted by GH0STexe:
Originally posted by Re'AL1st:
All that is needed for the "Legendary" achievement is graphics card with top cooling in a mesh case. I got achiev on the second attempt with small overclocking.
Как открыть ачивки по железу? Achieve a ***** score for your hardware. Прошел все тесты. Что ещё нужно сделать?
Пройти дефолтный тест видяхи с хорошим, отличным, великолепным и легендарным результатом. В шапке темы один из разрабов указал нужный для этого процент, в баллы которого должен попасть итоговый результат. Потребуется разгон и хороший охлад видяхи, плюс нормальный проц, чтобы прокачал её.
BoG-_-DaN Oct 3, 2021 @ 12:51pm 
So lowering temperatures on the Cpu/Gpu is also very important in getting legendary?
Last edited by BoG-_-DaN; Oct 3, 2021 @ 12:57pm
shpasic Oct 4, 2021 @ 6:25am 
do the related achievements unlock only in TimeSpy benchmarks?
UL_Jarnis  [developer] Oct 4, 2021 @ 10:11am 
Any DX12 normal tests.

Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Night Raid, Port Royal and as an exception, also in Wild Life and Wild Life Extreme, even if it is Vulkan and not DX12.
NORGOBGOATPIG Oct 4, 2021 @ 12:50pm 
Originally posted by UL_Jarnis:
Any DX12 normal tests.

Time Spy, Time Spy Extreme, Night Raid, Port Royal and as an exception, also in Wild Life and Wild Life Extreme, even if it is Vulkan and not DX12.

lies or this piece of soft ware is mega bugged BECAUSE http://www.3dmark.com/spy/23198428 and no ratings and i ran all dx 12 benchmarks test lots of times and not a single rating achievement has popped for me :Powerbaby:
U4EATowGuNner Oct 4, 2021 @ 2:11pm 
finally got 60% for Good achievement, but it didnt give it to me

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/23319823
UL_Jarnis  [developer] Oct 5, 2021 @ 1:42am 
That score is way low, it is not "60% of the top score", it is of all results with that combination. So basically slightly above average score for the hardware.
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