Concerning scores on Unigine Heaven benchmark

[Mgutierrez33]

Hey I just wanted to throw this one out there and see what you ghus think... 'cause this MAY or MAY NOT be terrible... I ran a Unigine Heaven benchmark test on my PC last night just to see what the results would be...

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:
32.0
Scores:
805
Min FPS:
11.7
Max FPS:
60.3
Hardware

Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU flags: 3400MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 9.18.13.1070 2048Mb

Settings

Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Tessellation:
extreme

Why is it that the score seems a bit low to me? Actual hardware specs are in my signature below. Maybe I'm overreacting?

 

[dragoonk]

hmm seems a bit low for your hardware , but apearences can be highly deciving. I ran unigine a few times on mine but I never saved the results, never thought that I might need to compare them one day. I'll run Heaven soon and I'll come back to results/ Right now I am installing windows 98 on a IBM Pentium II . Fun , huh?

 

[Mgutierrez33]

hmm seems a bit low for your hardware , but apearences can be highly deciving. I ran unigine a few times on mine but I never saved the results, never thought that I might need to compare them one day. I'll run Heaven soon and I'll come back to results/ Right now I am installing windows 98 on a IBM Pentium II . Fun , huh?

LOL loads of fun x-P. Yeah that's what I thought... I can't really put my finger on what the weak link is though... unless the card itself just isn't as good an example, but even that shouldn't be accounting for a score as low as all that.

 

[dragoonk]

Hi!
I am actually running Unigine right now on my machine... it wouldn't be either a fair comparison though. Your hardware is much more advanced than mine. but this is what I found on a different forum which is puzzling ideed.

Only the CPU differs but it shouldn't matter much if at all if you ask me.

 

[dragoonk]

BTW this is my score if it matters.

:lol:

 

[Mark3Max]

Hi Mgutierrez33
Check your settings in Nvidia control panel and make sure that
Power Management mode is set to perfer maximum performance
and vertical sync is off. I'm not sure about the Galaxy cards but on my evga card under adjust voltage I have evga k-boost.
Those settings should increase your unigene heven score.

 

[Mgutierrez33]

After I made some adjustments in my nVidia control panel (as per listed advice) this is what I got:

Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic

FPS:
43.3
Scores:
1092
Min FPS:
22.0
Max FPS:
109.6
Hardware

Binary: Windows 32bit Visual C++ 1600 Release Mar 7 2012
Operating system: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU flags: 3400MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 HTT
GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 9.18.13.1090 2048Mb

Settings

Render:
direct3d11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Shaders:
high
Textures:
high
Filter:
trilinear
Anisotropy:
16x
Occlusion:
enabled
Refraction:
enabled
Volumetric:
enabled
Tessellation:
extreme

The 71 point difference... meh, not THAT concerned about ePeen x-). Just want to make sure I'm in the right ball park, and that seems MUCH closer to center than before... why is it that Vsync has that effect on framerates in that test though? Also I had just updated my drivers, so of course all of my settings reverted back to stock -_-.