CPU Face off ! - Firestrike

[ALXAndy]

The rules.

 

You must be sure to meet the criteria here for the comparisons to be fair !

 

Your CPU needs to be clocked to 4.2ghz or less so that we can see how each CPU stacks up. Running different clocks will skew the results so that they are not accurate.

 

How to run the test

 

Download 3Dmark (AKA 3Dmark 13) here.

 

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark

 

The free demo is around 1gb to download. Install it, then run it and post a link to your results, NOT just a screenshot. You can also post a screen shot if you wish, but you must provide a link to validate.

 

When you are done post your link, it's the Firestrike test you are looking at here. You can also post in text and screenshot but again, you must provide a valid link !

 

Why are we doing this?

 

Firestrike seems to see as many cores as you can throw at it so is a fair benchmark to use to compare CPUs. It does assume that in the near future everything will see 8 cores which is obviously a prospective view, but with the way the consoles are headed it's almost guaranteed. This way we can start a database (please consider making this sticky) to compare a given CPU to another one.

 

If you decide to clock higher then that's fine, but your score will only serve as a reference at that given speed.

 

Thanks for reading, and happy benchmarking !

 

Andy

 

Edit - Please tell us which drivers you are using !

[Godlygamer23]

I'll run the test later, but my drivers are beta, so they won't be verifiable.

[TechFan@ic]

My card doesn't support DX11, pretty sad isn't it ? I'm still rockin a 4870 1GB !

[ALXAndy]

Aha ! great thinking GG ! Yes, please give the details of any drivers you may be using ! as we can then get a good idea of what ones work better with Firestrike !

[MichalCZE97]

Ok, I will start. I did this runthrough a while ago.

I have the i3-3220 at stock of course.

Here is the link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/695356

 

Edit: I ran it with the latest chipset drivers if you mean that by drivers. My GPU is also running at 320.18 driver from NVIDIA, but that doesn't really matter, does it?

[Hyydrah]

It should be noted that just because one CPU attains a higher score than another, doesn't mean that it's better overall. The Firestrike test is probably one of the more accurate benchmarks, though.

[Hyydrah]

Aha ! great thinking GG ! Yes, please give the details of any drivers you may be using ! as we can then get a good idea of what ones work better with Firestrike !

You should add that to the original post, people might miss it.

[ALXAndy]

You should add that to the original post, people might miss it.

 

Good call, done :)

[Godlygamer23]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/727309?

This is my test result. Though the core clock is actually 1.2GHz. Not 1GHz. Also, turns out I am using official drivers. Drivers are 320.18.

[ALXAndy]

 

Edit: I ran it with the latest chipset drivers if you mean that by drivers. My GPU is also running at 320.18 driver from NVIDIA, but that doesn't really matter, does it?

 

Yes that's the important one.It can seriously affect the scores.

[Godlygamer23]

Woops. I'm disqualified. My CPU is at 4.4GHz.

 

Nevermind.

[ALXAndy]

Woops. I'm disqualified. My CPU is at 4.4GHz.

 

Nevermind.

 

It's still useful but try and drop it 200mhz :)

 

My results.

 

Nvidia drivers - 320.18

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/687125

[Godlygamer23]

Also, I ran the extreme version.

[ALXAndy]

Also, I ran the extreme version.

 

Oops lmao. I wondered why your GPU scored so low.

[Godlygamer23]

Oh well.

[fishymamba]

Cool idea! I'll lower the clock on my 2700K and post results! 
Also isn't 3dMark more of a GPU intensive benchmark? Is the physics score the CPU benchmark? 

[Hyydrah]

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/511123

 

Using the 320.18 drivers. For some reason my RAM clock speed says 800MHz on 3DMark, but it's actually running at 2400MHz.

[Hyydrah]

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[Bad2049]

Here's my score.

Running the AMD 13.6 Beta driver. RAM is clocked @ 1666MHz.

[Theo]

Here is mine with a 1090T at 3.2GHz with a 680 @ 1228MHz core clock and 6.4GHz memory

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/727525  All the 3 tests

Firestrike:  http://www.3dmark.com/fs/511207

 

Drivers: 320.18 

[tovleander]

This is mine on 4.4gHz, Driver 9.12, catalyst 13.1

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/512741

 

 

Didn't bother down-clock because i tested Vantage and 11 on same. But on 3dmark11 it went down to 3gHz by it self.
And the driver was valid on Vantage and 11.