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No overclocking used in all benchmarks. System tested on is to the left. 3D Mark 06 benched using default settings (1280x800, no AA)[/b]

(VISTA64) 3D Mark 06 Scores

Sorted by Driver Version - Lowest to Highest:

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(VISTA64) 3D Mark 06 Scores

Sorted by SM2 + HDR Score - Lowest to Highest:

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Counter-Strike: Source is tested with recommended settings, no AA using proprietary benchmark (VIDEO STRESS TEST in game menu)

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is tested with recommended settings, no AA using proprietary benchmark (VIDEO STRESS TEST in game menu)

Crysis is tested with medium settings, no AA using proprietary GPU benchmark (Benchmark_GPU.bat in Bin32 folder)

The scores represent the average number of frames per second

(VISTA64) GAME BENCHMARKS - Sorted by Driver Version:

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(WINDOWS 7) 3D Mark 06 + CSS Scores

Sorted by Driver Version - Lowest to Highest:

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Interpreting The Results:

3D Mark 06 Scores:

SM2: Represents the ability to produce Shader Model 2.0 effects

HDR/ SM3: Represents the ability to produce High Dynamic Range lighting and Shader Model 3.0 effects

SM2 + HDR: Represents both the SM2 and HDR scores combined, this column shows the most reliable performance of the driver

Notes: 3D Mark 06 results only show how the drivers perform under 3D Mark 06, they do not necessarily represent the driver's performance in real world games.

Game Scores:

Counter-Strike: Source

Engine: Source

Notes: Contains most effects found commonplace in today's games. It doesn't majorly strain the computer and is a good indication of just how high a graphics driver can pump out extra frames per second

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast

Engine: Source

Notes: Same graphics style as Counter-Strike: Source but utilizes more effects, particularly HDR lighting and complex water reflections, though some maps in Counter-Strike: Source offer this, they aren't to be found in the CSS benchmark

Crysis

Engine: CryEngine 2

Notes: Currently the god of game graphics, on Very High settings that is, it uses a vast range of effects such as Volumetric Clouds, Water Geometry, HDR lighting, Complex Shadows and Shading, Complex Reflections, Complex lighting used by other effects, and a Particle system

I try not to be lazy, but dry spells happen and I may be unable to update for a while :)

Updates:

*July 14th 08:

added 176.04

added 175.63, 177.66, and 174.74 - requested by blueice

added sort by driver version and sort by 3DMark06 Score

added 169.02, 169.04, 175.16, and 175.19 - requested by john

*July 15th 08:

added 174.93 and 169.61

*July 30th 08

added 177.70 and 177.72 - requested by coolcop06

added 177.73 and 177.79

*August 1st 08

added 176.04 and 175.95 - requested by anonymous

*August 8th 08

Oops, I accidentally highlighted 177.66 as XP and not Vista. Fixed.

*August 17th 08

Added 177.83 and 177.87 and some benches in Counter-Strike Source.

*August 26th 08

Added 177.92 and another CSS benchmark, the HDR score is 1337!

*September 7th 08

Added 177.98 + CSS benchmark, Please note this was done on a new install of Vista 32 and the results may not entirely represent their performance

*September 26th 08

Added 178.13 + CSS benchmark

*October 1st 08

Added 179.13 + CSS benchmark

*October 17th 08

Added 178.13, 178.24, 178.26, and DOX's modified forceware which I beta tested for him, you can get DOX's forceware here, and support/ suggestions here. Also added a new column which excludes the CPU score which is highly variable, giving you a better idea of which drivers are better. I also removed the powermizer column because it had no use since most people disable powermizer through the registry anyway.

*October 21st 08

Added 180.20, 180.42 "Big Bang II" + CSS benchmarks for both, 180.42 gains 1 more fps in CSS benchmarks!

*October 24th 08

Added 178.43 + CSS and Lost Coast benchmark.

*October 25th 08

Added 180.43 custom DOX

*October 29th 08

Added 64-bit Windows Vista benchmarks of: 175.95, 176.04, 177.66, 177.7, 177.72, 177.79, 177.83, 177.89, 177.92, 177.98, 178.13, 178.24, 178.26, 180.1, 180.42, 180.43, 178.13 DOX, 178.24 DOX, 180.43 DOX, and benchmarks under CSS, HL2: Lost Coast, and Crysis for each driver!

*November 18th 08

Added 178.46, 179.14, 169.09, 180.44, and DOX custom 180.44

*November 21st 08

Added 180.47 and 180.7, removed 3DMark06 score and CPU score because they are irrelevant to GPU performance, changed images to PNG's so they don't get all that ugly jpeg compression! Also cleaned up the archive and a few other things to make it easier to look through.

*December 8th 08

Added 180.84

*December 19th 08

Added Dox 180.7, Dox 180.84, 181.00, 179.28, added more detail to interpreting results - We have finally broken the 150 fps barrier in Counter-Strike: Source!

*December 24th 08

Redesign, Merry Christmas!

*January 4th 09

Happy New Year! Rebenched 178.13 to find similar results... added 185.2, added new Windows 7 Chart, changed the way charts are made: I now use UDC (Universal Document Converter) which allows me to print specific charts or graphs to an image, allowing me to have as many

*February 17th 09

No updates, this is an update about lack of updates. From benchmarking across multiple systems the pattern is pretty consistent; the higher the driver version the better. You don't need charts to reassure yourself about that. I will not be benchmarking for a while so please stop requesting =) there are other valued members who consistently benchmark, and you can always do your own benching :)

Working on:

179.29, 181.2, Dox's 181.2, 176.26, 181.22

ARCHIVE:

You can find older XP and Vista benchmark charts in my Photobucket album (Guest password is covert): http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d109/xoft/

Old Vista 32 Game Benches:

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast Benchmark:

180.42 = 92.76 fps

180.43 = 92.99 fps

Counter-Strike: Source Benchmark:

177.83 = 147.16 fps

177.89 = 146.69 fps

177.92 = 147.51 fps

177.98 = 146.77 fps

178.13 = 147.86 fps

178.24 = 146.66 fps

178.26 = 147.03 fps

179.13 = 146.95 fps

180.20 = 147.61 fps

180.42 = 148.40 fps

180.43 = 145.98 fps

Could you perhaps include the overall scores each driver got from 3dmark?

Would be much easier for someone like me to quickly spot the best one.

thanks

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Could you perhaps include the overall scores each driver got from 3dmark?

Would be much easier for someone like me to quickly spot the best one.

thanks

I never went with the overall score because it included the CPU score, which I am not testing for.

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Hi All, I'm a regular follower of LV2GO and have recently become a member, I just noticed this thread so thought I should post my findings. I have a Dell M1530 (T7250, 4GB RAM, Vista 64, 8600M GT GDDR3, 259.47 driver). I've been overclocking the hell out of my laptop GPU since June 2008, here are my stable gaming overclocks:

700 core / 1700 shader / 1000 memory. It's the shader that's really impressed me. That's a 79% increase in clock on the shader - nuts! (shader performance is becoming more important with modern games, so this a good thing!).

Total 3DMark06 score (1280x800 monitor res) = 7029

Shader 2.0 score = 3172

Shader 3.0 score = 2963

CPU score = 1909 (was 1700 before the OC of the CPU using a free program called ThrottleStop). (ThrottleStop allows you to 'overclock' a Core 2 Duo CPU to 'Dual IDA' mode - I started a topic on this website devoted to that (that topic is in the news section under 'If you can't overlcock your Core 2 Duo try this').

The stock 3DMark06 score when I bought the laptop in early 2008 was 4527. So that's a 55% increase in 3DMark06 result!

I think I'v been very lucky to have received a GPU chip in this computer that is able to OC to literally insane levels without overdoing it on the temperature. I've yet to see anyone with a bigger OC on this chip, I've been very fortunate. Everyone will get different results, it's the luck of the draw!

I've been running my GPU OC'd since June 2008, and no problems so far. Fingers crossed for the GPU living on under this overclock! (I believe it will live on for a while now still, because the temperatures are always under 85 degrees centigrade, and mostly hovering at 79 degrees centigrade when gaming.) I use a Zalman NC2000 laptop cooler, as well as clean out all the dust from the heat sink every few months, both of which help lower temperatures. I've also applied Arctic Silver 5 to the GPU & CPU, which lowers temperatures by less than 5 degrees centigrade.

Update as of 6/11/10: I've now got a T9300 strapped in there, which has upped the 3DMark06 score to 7470 (SM2.0: 3215, SM3.0: 2987, CPU: 2476). I've noticed an improvement in games, I can generally up the physics to maximum (like in Crysis for instance), and framerate is more stable with a higher minimum than with a weaker processor. Praise be to ebay for cheap 2nd hand processors (hence my T9300)!

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Hi All, I'm a regular follower of LV2GO and have recently become a member, I just noticed this thread so thought I should post my findings. I have a Dell M1530 (T7250, 4GB RAM, Vista 64, 8600M GT GDDR3, 259.47 driver). I've been overclocking the hell out of my laptop GPU since June 2008, here are my stable gaming overclocks:

700 core / 1700 shader / 1000 memory. It's the shader that's really impressed me. That's a 79% increase in clock on the shader - nuts! (shader performance is becoming more important with modern games, so this a good thing!).

Total 3DMark06 score (1280x800 monitor res) = 7029

Shader 2.0 score = 3172

Shader 3.0 score = 2963

CPU score = 1909 (was 1700 before the OC of the CPU using a free program called ThrottleStop). (ThrottleStop allows you to 'overclock' a Core 2 Duo CPU to 'Dual IDA' mode - I started a topic on this website devoted to that (that topic is in the news section under 'If you can't overlcock your Core 2 Duo try this').

The stock 3DMark06 score when I bought the laptop in early 2008 was 4527. So that's a 55% increase in 3DMark06 result!

I think I'v been very lucky to have received a GPU chip in this computer that is able to OC to literally insane levels without overdoing it on the temperature. I've yet to see anyone with a bigger OC on this chip, I've been very fortunate. Everyone will get different results, it's the luck of the draw!

I've been running my GPU OC'd since June 2008, and no problems so far. Fingers crossed for the GPU living on under this overclock! (I believe it will live on for a while now still, because the temperatures are always under 85 degrees centigrade, and mostly hovering at 79 degrees centigrade when gaming.) I use a Zalman NC2000 laptop cooler, as well as clean out all the dust from the heat sink every few months, both of which help lower temperatures. I've also applied Arctic Silver 5 to the GPU & CPU, which lowers temperatures by less than 5 degrees centigrade.

Update as of 6/11/10: I've now got a T9300 strapped in there, which has upped the 3DMark06 score to 7470 (SM2.0: 3215, SM3.0: 2987, CPU: 2476). I've noticed an improvement in games, I can generally up the physics to maximum (like in Crysis for instance), and framerate is more stable with a higher minimum than with a weaker processor. Praise be to ebay for cheap 2nd hand processors (hence my T9300)!

Update as of 6/11/10: I've now got a T9300 strapped in there, which has upped the 3DMark06 score to 7470 (SM2.0: 3215, SM3.0: 2987, CPU: 2476). I've noticed an improvement in games, I can generally up the physics to maximum (like in Crysis for instance), and framerate is more stable with a higher minimum than with a weaker processor. Praise be to ebay for cheap 2nd hand processors (hence my T9300)!

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