Is this a good or a bad benchmark?

[Rebel836]

I built this PC around a month ago and wanted to do a little testing.

 

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360

GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX

MOBO: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX

Memory: Gskill Flare X5 32GB (2x16) 6000MT/s CL30-38-38-96 (EXPO Enabled)

PSU: MSI MPG A850G PCIE 5 (80+ Gold 850W)

 

Disclaimer: I know very little about benchmarks, or what is or isn't a good score so I could just be an idiot, I'm just trying to make sure that everything is running properly before my return window closes for all my parts. I decided to download and run Cinebench 2024 and Unigine Heaven.

 

I ran Cinebench first for the GPU and I got, what I believe to be a poor score? I don't know if being lower on the list than a 2070 super is bad...but it SOUNDS bad. These were my test results along with a screenshot of my afterburner near the end of the test. I ran everything stock and I haven't touched any settings for my hardware other than enabling EXPO on my memory.

 

After I ran this test, I noticed I had an update for my GPU drivers in Adrenalin, so I downloaded that, restarted, and tried the run the test again, but now every time I try to run the GPU test, Cinebench just closes. I tried a couple times after a couple restarts and it keeps doing the same thing. I don't know if this is a big issue or not, but I didn't keep trying after that.

 

Next I ran a multi core test for my CPU, with the following results.

 

Again, I don't know if this is good or not but I felt it went ok? The stats on Ryzen Master were fairly constant through the whole test. I took a screenshot towards the middle of the test (shown) and again near the end, but the stats were nearly identical so I didn't post the second screenshot.

 

 

Finally, I ran Unigine Heaven on both high and ultra. In the first Cinebench GPU test, the speed was around 3100MHz, and in the Unigine test they were fairly steady around 2800MHz.

 

 

TLDR: I basically just want someone smarter than me to tell me if everything here looks ok, and if not, is there something I can do? I haven't really had any issues gaming so far, but I wasn't sure if there were any hidden symptoms here which might effect me down the road. Either way, I appreciate your time. Thank you

[191x7]

Can you run a 3Dmark benchmark?

[adm0n]

Your cinebench score for your GPU does look a bit weird, but your heaven results are pretty good. On the CPU side, everything seems to be alright too.

 

That being said, heaven is a very old benchmark. I'd at least use Superposition instead.

 

A very good indicator if everything is alright, is looking at the clocks and power consumption of your GPU/CPU and see if it is possible for them to use all of their resources. I'd say everything looks fine though, and you should just use your time to actually game. If a game seems to run slower that you expected, that is the time to investigate if something is going wrong.

[Rebel836]

8 minutes ago, adm0n said:

Your cinebench score for your GPU does look a bit weird, but your heaven results are pretty good. On the CPU side, everything seems to be alright too.

 

That being said, heaven is a very old benchmark. I'd at least use Superposition instead.

 

A very good indicator if everything is alright, is looking at the clocks and power consumption of your GPU/CPU and see if it is possible for them to use all of their resources. I'd say everything looks fine though, and you should just use your time to actually game. If a game seems to run slower that you expected, that is the time to investigate if something is going wrong.

I'll try superposition in the morning then. I hadn't heard of it before. 

 

As for cinebench, I thought it seemed odd, but I don't know what might have caused it either. Nor do I know why cinebench now just closes completely when I try to run the test again. Is it a sign of a bigger issue? I have no idea. 

 

That being said, my games have been running ok, but I'm also comparing it to my last pc which was...struggling. I just wanted to be preemptive this time around to try to fix potential problems now before they become $1000 problems later 

[adm0n]

2 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

Nor do I know why cinebench now just closes completely when I try to run the test again.

It does seem weird, but could have multiple reasons. You could try an older (maybe more stable) version of cinebench, like r23.

 

My personal approach to driver updates, is just get them when you actually need then. So either if I play a newer game and haven't updated in a while or when I notice somethings going wrong.

 

Getting a stable GPU driver can be a bit of a hustle and as soon as I find one that works, I don't want to change it anymore.

[TatamiMatt]

Could also clock the memory a little higher too, 2500 just seems a little low for a 3K+ core OC, also

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Rebel836 said:

I built this PC around a month ago and wanted to do a little testing.

 

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360

GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7900 XTX

MOBO: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX

Memory: Gskill Flare X5 32GB (2x16) 6000MT/s CL30-38-38-96 (EXPO Enabled)

PSU: MSI MPG A850G PCIE 5 (80+ Gold 850W)

 

Disclaimer: I know very little about benchmarks, or what is or isn't a good score so I could just be an idiot, I'm just trying to make sure that everything is running properly before my return window closes for all my parts. I decided to download and run Cinebench 2024 and Unigine Heaven.

 

I ran Cinebench first for the GPU and I got, what I believe to be a poor score? I don't know if being lower on the list than a 2070 super is bad...but it SOUNDS bad. These were my test results along with a screenshot of my afterburner near the end of the test. I ran everything stock and I haven't touched any settings for my hardware other than enabling EXPO on my memory.

 

After I ran this test, I noticed I had an update for my GPU drivers in Adrenalin, so I downloaded that, restarted, and tried the run the test again, but now every time I try to run the GPU test, Cinebench just closes. I tried a couple times after a couple restarts and it keeps doing the same thing. I don't know if this is a big issue or not, but I didn't keep trying after that.

 

Next I ran a multi core test for my CPU, with the following results.

 

Again, I don't know if this is good or not but I felt it went ok? The stats on Ryzen Master were fairly constant through the whole test. I took a screenshot towards the middle of the test (shown) and again near the end, but the stats were nearly identical so I didn't post the second screenshot.

 

 

Finally, I ran Unigine Heaven on both high and ultra. In the first Cinebench GPU test, the speed was around 3100MHz, and in the Unigine test they were fairly steady around 2800MHz.

 

 

TLDR: I basically just want someone smarter than me to tell me if everything here looks ok, and if not, is there something I can do? I haven't really had any issues gaming so far, but I wasn't sure if there were any hidden symptoms here which might effect me down the road. Either way, I appreciate your time. Thank you

Run 3DMark for GPU, and Cinebench23 for CPU, the 24 version isn't widely used

4 minutes ago, TatamiMatt said:

Could also clock the memory a little higher too, 2500 just seems a little low for a 3K+ core OC, also

On a 7900XTX you can get stable VRAM at 2600-2650 not higher

Core can go up to 3GHz at max but it's quite rare, you often get only 2.6 to 2.8, plus at high clocks it eats tons of wattage (400W+) and become hot as hell

[venomtail]

Unigine Heaven has aged, try 3DMark.

[Rebel836]

7 hours ago, venomtail said:

Unigine Heaven has aged, try 3DMark.

 

7 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Run 3DMark for GPU, and Cinebench23 for CPU, the 24 version isn't widely used

On a 7900XTX you can get stable VRAM at 2600-2650 not higher

Core can go up to 3GHz at max but it's quite rare, you often get only 2.6 to 2.8, plus at high clocks it eats tons of wattage (400W+) and become hot as hell

 

9 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Can you run a 3Dmark benchmark?

For everyone that was asking, this was my 3DMark bench.

 

I did have a little hiccup this morning where when I powered on my PC, it posted and I had the option to go into the BIOS, but then went black for a few minutes and then rebooted and did the same thing until I held down the power button to turn it off. When I turned it back on I got the notification that windows didn't start correctly. After choosing to restart again, it booted properly. Not sure if it's related or not but I figured I would mention it anyway.

 

Anyways I'm running the cinebench 23 next

 

[191x7]

3 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

 

 

For everyone that was asking, this was my 3DMark bench.

 

I did have a little hiccup this morning where when I powered on my PC, it posted and I had the option to go into the BIOS, but then went black for a few minutes and then rebooted and did the same thing until I held down the power button to turn it off. When I turned it back on I got the notification that windows didn't start correctly. After choosing to restart again, it booted properly. Not sure if it's related or not but I figured I would mention it anyway.

 

Anyways I'm running the cinebench 23 next

 

Sfc /scannow

[Rebel836]

My Cinebench 2023 test

[Rebel836]

12 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Sfc /scannow

Is that the only step I should take?

[PDifolco]

17 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

 

 

For everyone that was asking, this was my 3DMark bench.

 

I did have a little hiccup this morning where when I powered on my PC, it posted and I had the option to go into the BIOS, but then went black for a few minutes and then rebooted and did the same thing until I held down the power button to turn it off. When I turned it back on I got the notification that windows didn't start correctly. After choosing to restart again, it booted properly. Not sure if it's related or not but I figured I would mention it anyway.

 

Anyways I'm running the cinebench 23 next

 

 

4 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

My Cinebench 2023 test

Perfectly normal results, don't worry !

[191x7]

31 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

Is that the only step I should take?

Well, you can do

 

chkdsk c: /scan

 

then do

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

 

and then repeat the SFC to be sure.

 

The scores are fine, it's the instability that worries me.

 

Windows has a tool named Reliability, maybe check what it says.

[Rebel836]

1 hour ago, 191x7 said:

Well, you can do

 

chkdsk c: /scan

 

then do

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

 

and then repeat the SFC to be sure.

 

The scores are fine, it's the instability that worries me.

 

Windows has a tool named Reliability, maybe check what it says.

All those checks came back ok. The reliability tool had some warnings about my programs closing like the cinebench and ryzen master when I had to do a forced restart but nothing that screams red flag? 

[191x7]

12 minutes ago, Rebel836 said:

All those checks came back ok. The reliability tool had some warnings about my programs closing like the cinebench and ryzen master when I had to do a forced restart but nothing that screams red flag? 

Ok. Monitor the situation, check if other crashes will happen.