I recently purchased an ATI Radeon 5770 512MB graphics card. I ran 3D Mark Vantage and 3D Mark 2006 and weirdly enough i scored quite bellow expectations in 3D Mark 2006 :| some games like Dragon Age, Assassin's Creed 2 and GTA IV barely reach 40fps maxed out with AAx4 1280x960
My System looks like this:
Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33Ghz
Gigabyte G31MX-S2 Motherboard (PCI Express 1.1 16x)
Hynix 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz Memory
Club3D ATI Radeon 5770 512MB (standard 850Mhz GPU Core, 4800Mhz GDDR5 Memory)
Gigabyte Odin 585watt Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda ST3500418AS 500GB HDD
I always uninstall my current driver -> run driver sweeper in safe mode -> install new drivers.
*** I tested every ATI driver released from 9.11 to 10.3 beta and I only saw a small change in 10.3 X_X
3D Mark 2006 1280x1024 Standard test
Overall Score: 11,240
CPU: 2120
SM2.0: 4900 (other benchmarks reported around 7,000+ for this)
SM3.0: 6200 (other benchmarks reported around 7,000+ for this)
3D Mark Vantage Performance 1280x1024
Overall Score: P7200
CPU Score: 4185
GPU Score: 9402 (with the CCC 10.3 beta drivers)
So the million dollar questions are... do i need to send back the 3D Card or replace motherboard, CPU and memory to fix this. Why is the 3D card getting bad SM2.0 and SM3.0 scores in 3D Mark 2006 ? Will upgrading from PCI Express 16x to PCI Express 2.0 16x really improve performance enough to lift an eyebrow ?
My System looks like this:
Windows 7 32-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @ 2.33Ghz
Gigabyte G31MX-S2 Motherboard (PCI Express 1.1 16x)
Hynix 2x1GB DDR2 800Mhz Memory
Club3D ATI Radeon 5770 512MB (standard 850Mhz GPU Core, 4800Mhz GDDR5 Memory)
Gigabyte Odin 585watt Power Supply
Seagate Barracuda ST3500418AS 500GB HDD
I always uninstall my current driver -> run driver sweeper in safe mode -> install new drivers.
*** I tested every ATI driver released from 9.11 to 10.3 beta and I only saw a small change in 10.3 X_X
3D Mark 2006 1280x1024 Standard test
Overall Score: 11,240
CPU: 2120
SM2.0: 4900 (other benchmarks reported around 7,000+ for this)
SM3.0: 6200 (other benchmarks reported around 7,000+ for this)
3D Mark Vantage Performance 1280x1024
Overall Score: P7200
CPU Score: 4185
GPU Score: 9402 (with the CCC 10.3 beta drivers)
So the million dollar questions are... do i need to send back the 3D Card or replace motherboard, CPU and memory to fix this. Why is the 3D card getting bad SM2.0 and SM3.0 scores in 3D Mark 2006 ? Will upgrading from PCI Express 16x to PCI Express 2.0 16x really improve performance enough to lift an eyebrow ?