The 2019 "Put your Benchmark where your Mouth is" thread.
Hey All,

It's an exciting time, especially with all the great CPU releases. We get a lot of speculation and 3rd hand info batted around here in the Steam Hardware and OS community: lets see what real world users are getting out of the near unlimited hardware combinations and implementation options.

We're using the 3DMark suite here for testing as it covers all the currently relevant resolutions and is uniformly strict in validating scores. I, like many of you probably have OCs that crush in game & under stress testing but can't pass some 3DMark benches...tough..drop your OC or up your voltage, that's why we're using it.




Here's a simple format for Copy/Paste:

CPU: OCd: Y/N
GPU: OCd: Y/N

Cooling Solution: Air/Water/Combined (AIO)/Sub-Ambient

Benchmark Scores:

FS (Fire Stike):............................
FSE (Fire Strike Extreme):..........
FSU (Fire Stike Ultra):.................
TS (Time Spy):............................
TSE (Time Spy Extreme):...........




Rules/Guidelines:
1- No Pick = No Proof (All scores must be accompanied by supporting evidence)
2- If you are not participating and posting scores; please post you commentary, analysis or questions in a separate thread.
3- Keep it nice; a little friendly competition is fun, but we're not gonna have any disparaging remarks, fanboyism or "mine is better than yours" BS. We have an opportunity here for a cool base of knowledge.
4- This is not for "UBER" machines only. While we're all interested to see about the 3000 series vs the 9000 series, that is not the only point. If you've got your hamsters all fired up on caffiene & the O'le potato is putting out 1.21 Gigawatts then rock on! Let's see those scores.


I'll put up my stock score as baseline example & we'll see from there.

OC it till it squeaks! - Good Luck!




Legutóbb szerkesztette: sawdust3d; 2019. júl. 16., 20:47
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Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
"Great CPU releases" Hardly. Synthetic "benchmarks" are not good determiners of performance.

Benchmarks are a useful tool if you know how to use them. They're not a perfect analog for gaming performance but are useful for making comparisons between different parts in specific tasks.
Just ran a quick firestrike.

9900k @4.4- air, fans idle, max temps 62C
1070 @ +50 core +400 mem

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/19904583

3DMark Score17724
Graphics Score19461
Physics Score22980
Combined Score8809__
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Laptop run:
8750h stock air
2070mq stock

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/37806452?

3DMark Score16060
Graphics Score18200
Physics Score16205
Combined Score8474
Legutóbb szerkesztette: bigbenisdaman; 2019. júl. 19., 12:02
Ad Hominem eredeti hozzászólása:
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
"Great CPU releases" Hardly. Synthetic "benchmarks" are not good determiners of performance.

Benchmarks are a useful tool if you know how to use them. They're not a perfect analog for gaming performance but are useful for making comparisons between different parts in specific tasks.

No because numerous games are not even designed to leverage hardware correctly. Look at several games where the internal game programming is a barrier to the actual performance. Synthetics are optimised to push something to it's absolute limits, but realistically some games are memory bandwidth bound, some CPU bound (no this does not mean maximum CPU utilisation, "ARMA 3" is CPU bound but sucks at overall resource use), or GPU bound this is actually the "ideal" scenario when gaming. If you are GPU bound it means you can run higher end hardware in the "IDEAL" scenario and only if in the ideal scenario.

Performance gains in the generations of CPUs is disturbingly poor. Take any Intel CPU (2015 - 2019) lock it's core multipler to 4.0Ghz all core only. Then do a side by side. You'd be surprised at the results.

I consider Boost clocks to be effectively cheating

Clock for clock comparisons give you real data on which CPU has the better raw IPC.
Legutóbb szerkesztette: iceman1980; 2019. júl. 18., 19:16
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
Ad Hominem eredeti hozzászólása:

Benchmarks are a useful tool if you know how to use them. They're not a perfect analog for gaming performance but are useful for making comparisons between different parts in specific tasks.

No because numerous games are not even designed to leverage hardware correctly.
So benchmarks aren't indicative of how games actually run. Big whoop. They're still useful as an objective standard for creating a hierarchy of hardware ability.
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
Look at several games where the internal game programming is a barrier to the actual performance. Synthetics are optimised to push something to it's absolute limits, but realistically some games are memory bandwidth bound, some CPU bound (no this does not mean maximum CPU utilisation, "ARMA 3" is CPU bound but sucks at overall resource use), or GPU bound this is actually the "ideal" scenario when gaming. If you are GPU bound it means you can run higher end hardware in the "IDEAL" scenario and only if in the ideal scenario.
Not sure what your point is here. Afaik no one is pretending all games are coded equally. That's actually one of the reasons I value benchmarking software: BECAUSE games are frequently inefficient with the way they handle the resources available to them, an objective standard is useful to determine a rig's performance potential.
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
Performance gains in the generations of CPUs is disturbingly poor. Take any Intel CPU (2015 - 2019) lock it's core multipler to 4.0Ghz all core only. Then do a side by side. You'd be surprised at the results.
Doing that would demonstrate how much Intel's IPC has grown (or hasn't). But Intel's strides with their more recent chips has been more with frequency than with IPC anyway. If you're trying to argue than Intel's core development has stagnated a bit, I don't think anyone would disagree. But we're far afield from talking about benchmarks at this point.
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
I consider Boost clocks to be effectively cheating

Clock for clock comparisons give you real data on which CPU has the better raw IPC.
For an academic discussion of IPC, sure, it's interesting. But unless you're buying a 9900k with the intention of down-clocking it, there's no point in testing a cpu at a speed it can easily exceed in almost every high-load scenario. Such a test isn't useful in determining effective speed (running benchmarks) or practical speed (common usage scenarios that benchmarks may not accurately simulate).
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
Performance gains in the generations of CPUs is disturbingly poor. Take any Intel CPU (2015 - 2019) lock it's core multipler to 4.0Ghz all core only. Then do a side by side. You'd be surprised at the results.

Do a side by side how? With a benchmark? So you can put an objective number to the performance and compare side by side?

What would locking core multiplier show anyway? Unless you wanted to specifically only look at a single part of performance. And what makes boost clock cheating? Do you mean for regular use or benchmarking purposes?
Legutóbb szerkesztette: Ad Hominem; 2019. júl. 18., 21:20
Ad Hominem eredeti hozzászólása:
Dr Doom eredeti hozzászólása:
Performance gains in the generations of CPUs is disturbingly poor. Take any Intel CPU (2015 - 2019) lock it's core multipler to 4.0Ghz all core only. Then do a side by side. You'd be surprised at the results.

Do a side by side how? With a benchmark? So you can put an objective number to the performance and compare side by side?

What would locking core multiplier show anyway? Unless you wanted to specifically only look at a single part of performance. And what makes boost clock cheating? Do you mean for regular use or benchmarking purposes?
But, he just said that benchmarking was useless, '''UNREALISTIC''' workload.
So, what would be test it in? Games? Production workloads? How exactly should we compare this performance?

The only thing that locking the core multiplier and disabling boost would do is show IPC, which is a valid reason, but the only way to test that is SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS.

And, I don't see how 'boosting' (in any form) is '''cheating.'''
If that's the case, then ALL GPUs these days are 'fake performers', because they all boost.
Games would be done by testing a wide range, this would include games which are CPU bound and GPU bound. From this data based on frame-varience, frame-rate lows, highs and averages by percentage. Over time this gives you a clear look at overall gaming performance; and I need to correct myself IPC gains can be significant over time generation to generation. However when you compare some proessors. There is a clear distinction between how much of a gain there is if you lock their clocks at 4Gh or some other absolute value. Then by comparing them side by side in terms of the frame-rate data you get a deeper understanding of that processors real performance.

Productivity would be using: 3D rendering software, CPU bound fluid simulation, AutoCAD, or other benchmarks.


To try to determine real world performance from synthetics tells you little about how varied workloads behave when applied to a system.

Yes I believe that clock-boosting is cheating and in a way it actually is, by determining the overall load on the cores the CPU can adjust its frequency on or more cores to make the prodominant thread taking up residency on the "main thread/core" as it is known to be it can run this core at a higher "boost" if the CPU is within specific power and thermal requirements.

The same thing can be found on GPUs it squeezes just that bit more performance out by boosting depending on a number of data characteristics.

It "cheats" physics by doing this. Otherwise If we saw a CPU baseline all core 5Ghz from a i9 for example it would become very hot and possibly thermal throttle or worst case shutdown the computer.



Legutóbb szerkesztette: iceman1980; 2019. júl. 19., 0:37
sawdust3d eredeti hozzászólása:
Midnight Fawn eredeti hozzászólása:
i9 9900K
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio

CPU: OCd: Y @ 5.1Ghz
GPU: OCd: N

Cooling Solution: NZXT Kraken X62

TS (Time Spy) : 15032

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/6045122

Hey MidnightFawn,

Would you consider throwing an OC on your GPU over the weekend?

This would be a cool one for me to see. You've got me cleanly surpassed in hardware by a substantial but reasonable margin (9700k & 2080ti FE).

I'd like to see how much of the hardware delta I can make up with OCs on a decent custom loop.

I'll be OCing my system this weekend as well.

Thank you,

Hi Sawdust3d,

If i get a chance i'll do some OC on GPU, and see how far i can push it, then will post results..
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!
The demo version is free.
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!

Basic version is free but only comes with Time Spy. And you won't beat us, because the best score for your config hasn't even reached 5000 in standard Time Spy, which is nothing compared to the top scores of over 30000.
Escorve eredeti hozzászólása:
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!

Basic version is free but only comes with Time Spy. And you won't beat us, because the best score for your config hasn't even reached 5000 in standard Time Spy, which is nothing compared to the top scores of over 30000.
Which version should i use for benchmark? which ones did you use? Basic? I dont want to buy a benchmark.
Escorve eredeti hozzászólása:
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!

Basic version is free but only comes with Time Spy. And you won't beat us, because the best score for your config hasn't even reached 5000 in standard Time Spy, which is nothing compared to the top scores of over 30000.
Those top scores are only with 2 RTX 2080Ti's and 12+ cores cpus which now became afffordable with Ryzen 3900x. Most people dont and will not pay so much money just to post those crazy high scores where there is not realy reason to own such expensive hardware.
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!
I challenge you to beat my Time Spy score (3987)!

The RX 470 and GTX 970 are fairly close - curious to see how close. I expect the GTX 970 to score around 4400 or so.
AbedsBrother eredeti hozzászólása:
SHREDDER eredeti hozzászólása:
Is the latest verson of 3d mark free? Ryzen 7 1700 16 GB DDR4 3200MHZCL15 GS KILL RIP JAWS GTX 970 G1 GAMING DELL2P416D 24'' 2560X1440 60 HZ IPS. Wait for my results! IAM THE SHREDDER AND WILL BEAT YOU ALL!
I challenge you to beat my Time Spy score (3987)!

The RX 470 and GTX 970 are fairly close - curious to see how close. I expect the GTX 970 to score around 4400 or so.
It is GTX 9 70 G1 GAMING which gtx 970 do you have? Last time i run it was in 2017 when i upgraded cpu and ram(from core i5 2500k and 12 gb ddr3 1600 mhz to ryzen 7 1700 and 16 gb ddr4 3200mhzcl15) but i dont remeber the score number. Do you also have a 1440p monitor like me? What cpu and ram do you have? Iam running it each time i upgrade so i will run it again when i upgrade graphics card and i believe then it will be much higher than 20.000 especialy if the card is 50%+ more powerful than RTX 2080 ti.
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