Todays results half of what my last results were???

[Recoil]

So my brother just got a new GPU and we were comparing scores and i noticed that my score was half of what it was the first time I ran 3dmark a month or so ago. I haven't changed anything other than installing a new game or two.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

previous score was 4689, new score is 2645.

[Astori Heichalot]

many reasons,

1. well, first of all, benchmarking never gives you exactly same score, instead it gives you "roughly similar" results.
2. drivers. different drivers gives different results, because some drivers are not stable compared to other drivers
3. 3dmark patch. sometimes, 3dmark gives wrong result, due to lack of system information calculated. with newer 3dmark patch, the score is calculated "correctly" (or atleast closer to what is should be)
4. active programs. closing all programs does not necessarily means you cleared them all, sometimes there are programs which run in the background while using greater memory
5. lack of voltage OR wattage

yours probably on number 4 (my guess)

[UL_Jarnis]

Post links to your before and after results, would help to analyze why this is happening.

[Recoil]

unfortunately the previous results aren't showing otherwise I would.

My pc specs are:

Intel 3770K non-OC
Nvidia ASUS 660 Ti OC
ASUS Maximus V Gene
16gb Hyper X Beast at 2333mhz
256GB SSD
Windows 8.1

[Scooby]

i had this same issue also. with my test that where only a few min apart. friestrike went from like 9470 to a 9380 and next 3 tests kept going lower to about 8900 area. this is with two brand new 780 ti's on air and a pull water loop on the cpu. think having a clean start does help and doing many tests in a row will mess it up. but idk. im still playing with it.

[Scooby]

firestrike exterme btw.

[Astori Heichalot]

Originally posted by Onglar C U @ LAN:

4 as in running prime95 and Furmark at the same time?

well, was meant to say certain programs that he forgot to turn off that uses great memory, like Microsoft Office or Windows Media Player or a working Drop Box