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3dMark scores help please, bottleneck?

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April 24, 2014 12:20:47 PM

Ok so my brother and I both upgraded our systems, we both ran the demo of 3dmark. On firestrike our scores are almost identical overall, my physics score is better, his graphics score better. As expected for our hardware.

However as you look down at cloud gate and ice storm, my graphics score gets much better, on ice storm its %50 better than his score. Any ideas why this may be? Is this just due to his X4 bottlenecking the 270x?

My score http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2940425

His score http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/2941125 (graphics driver not approved as hes running mantle)

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April 24, 2014 12:54:45 PM

I find both parts to be evenly matched. I once owned a x6 1055t and 7870 and never noticed bottle-necking in any game I tested at the time (AC 3 being the most demanding). To paraphase, in real in-game performance, no bottlenecking should happen since 7870 and 270 are essentially the same card.
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April 24, 2014 1:07:29 PM

I probably wasnt very clear. Im not concerned at all about bottleneck on my system.

Its when you compare my score to my brothers score, his graphics score is far short of mine on the 'ice storm' test, despite his GPU being fractionally faster. Despite this on the 'Firestrike' test both our systems score almost identically.

So I can only assume this is due to bottleneck with R9 270x and athlon X4? Just seems strange it only seems to be an issue on the 'Ice cloud' test and not the more intense 'Firestrike'.

I know these are only benchmarks, I would just like to understand why exactly this is.
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April 24, 2014 1:11:28 PM

AJDux said:
I probably wasnt very clear. Im not concerned at all about bottleneck on my system.

Its when you compare my score to my brothers score, his graphics score is far short of mine on the 'ice storm' test, despite his GPU being fractionally faster. Despite this on the 'Firestrike' test both our systems score almost identically.

So I can only assume this is due to bottleneck with R9 270x and athlon X4? Just seems strange it only seems to be an issue on the Ice cloud test and not the more inteense Firestorm.

I know these are only benchmarks, I would just like to understand why exactly this is.


Ok. I see what your are saying. Pretty much any x4 would have issues keeping up with 270. The 1055t is pushed to limit when running 270 so I would assume a bottleneck for any x4 not named 965.
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