Viper-X 4890 3DMark06 score lower than my 4850?

I had an ASUS 4850 512MB DDR3 card, but a friend offered to buy me a 4890 for a birthday present if I gave him my old 4850. So I got my Sapphire Viper-X 4890 1GB DDR5 card in the mail today. I installed 9.6 driver and ran the 4850 before I took the card out. I got just under 10k for a score on 3DMark06. Then I uninstalled 9.6 and rebooted. I then put in the 4890, booted up, and then reinstalled 9.6. But when I ran 3DMark06, I got just under 6k for a score. I ran the test twice. Anyone have any ideas why this new card is not getting a higher score?

I have been around for a while, and I was not one of the people that asked why their Nvidia 5200 scored less than their Ti4200. What is the deal here?

I want this card to work? Is it working?

Well it could.. but that wouldn't cause these problems.

Where on earth did everyone get the idea that not giving a card enough power makes it go slower??? That has been a common statement today.

Anyway, is it stuck in 2D clocks?

Whilest that can be true, it still doesnt clarify the loss of ''speed''.

You should try removing the drivers again and clean it with drivercleaner or some sort, and test it with some games. Id imagine ud still know the fps you got out of your 4850

goodluck

It could happen due to driver conflict.... Try cleaning the driver using 'drive sweeper' and then re-install it.

You have to check that it is staying at 500mhz during gaming.

It is supposed to down clock 500mhz when idle to conserve power

The card down clocks depending on the load. I don't know the cutoff where it goes from "2d" to "3d" clocks. But in most games (loading screens etc) it will bounce up and down.

You can set GPUz to log to a file and whatnot, so you can compare load to the core clock.

The card isn't being "too smart" or anything like that. This feature works fine for 99% of people. Either there is a driver issue (there was at one time a problem in XP with the card not clocking up or down correctly, though I thought it was fixed) or the card is broken. You an keep trying to remove and reinstall drivers, or RMA the card i suppose..

Though I'm still not sure this is your issue. But generally this behavior is due to power play not working correctly.

If you want to try it, you can modify the bios to turn power play off, but this will void the warranty.

While you wont get the same scores as a review benchmark with the CPU you have, there is no reason it should perform slower than the 4850 unless the 4890 is broken (or some other silly issue).

You are running xp 32bit?

I would agree if it were just running like crap. But no matter what crazy cpu limitation you run into a more powerful card shouldn't reduce your performance.. give you almsot nothing extra sure, but negative scaling makes me think something else is at play.

Though you are correct, of course, that the cpu is far far weaker than this GPU, and should probably be upgraded (along with everything else since this is as good as it gets for 939).

It has been a long time since I've dealt with 939 though.. not exactly an area I remember much about.

uh your in trouble i get 12401with my 4830 1 gb sapphire clocks oced at 800/1200 on a DELL

driver cleaner reinstall try rivatuner?

i believe you and I are having the same problem, i only get roughly 11K for a 4890, did you ever find a solution?

I get 14803 with my XFX 8450 clocked at 750/1150