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    Windows 7 Boosting 3dmark scores???

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by MrButterBiscuits, May 7, 2009.

  1. MrButterBiscuits

    MrButterBiscuits ~Veritas Y Aequitas~

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    Due to the 3d enhancer in windows 7, is it boosting my scores? Because I saw a 2k difference in my score in 3dmark 06... or would that most likely be due to outside factors like my computer running for an extended period of time before testing
     
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    Rob41 Team Pirate Control

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    Others have noticed a boost using W7 in both syn benches as wel as in actual game play. Most of them have seen from a 500 to 800 point boost in 3DMark06.
     
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  3. Angelic

    Angelic Kickin' back :3

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    I had a 244 point boost with my 7600. I'd like to know why scores are getting boosted. :confused:
     
    Angelic, May 8, 2009
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    Kevin Egregious

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    I'm scoring just over 11,225 in Vista 32-bit and Win 7 64-bit, with a difference of less than ten points.
     
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    Well I went from XP to W7, I wonder if the larger OS jump is the issue (at least for me).
     
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  6. MrButterBiscuits

    MrButterBiscuits ~Veritas Y Aequitas~

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    It's due to the 3d accelerator included with windows 7 and less bloatware :D
     
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    As more Win7-specific drivers become available, benchmark scores will improve. Running older Vista drivers on Win7 'works' but just barely.

    Intel just pushed out it's v1.1 WHQL GMA drivers for Win7. That code improved the basic Win7 Experience benchmarks for video over 20% compared to the latest Vista drivers. AMD has done much the same thing with their most recent Win7 video drivers.

    Remember that one major area of improvement in Win7 is the WDM/GDI graphics pipelines. Prior to Win7, this was a mostly single threaded data path. Win7 brings 4 path multithreading with a promise to get to 6 and nthen 8 path wide in a year with SP2. Drivers need to be rewritted to take advantage of these multiple data paths otherwide the Win7 GDI defaults back to the 'legacy' single path mode.
     
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