Hipro5 has been at it again and posted a summarize of the results he’s achieved over the last few days of benching. He’s broken four world records, and three single card records. AquaMark 3, 3DMark 03, 05 and 06 were the benchmarks in question and the funny thing is, his Radeon HD 3870X2 and Radeon HD 3870 cards were still using the stock cooler. The differences between Hipro5’s scores and the previous results, are just slightly higher CPU and GPU frequencies.
First of all, he broke the 3DMark 06 world record and reached a new milestone; 32,000. The final score was 32,144 points. The processor was up to 5,757 MHz and the cards at 980/1140MHz. Memories were operating at 823MHz 7-6-5-15, DDR3 of course.
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Second, 3DMark 05 has finally been conquered by Radeon HD 3870X2, but we’re still a few points short of 40,000. Hipro5’s score was 39,611 points. The processor was upped to 5,814MHz and the cards were still at the same frequency; 980/1140MHz. Memories were running at 830MHz 7-6-5-15.
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Third, Radeon HD 3870X2 has reawakened the lust for benchmarking ATI cards in 3DMark 03. He had to lower the CPU frequency just slightly to 5,791MHz, but compensated by upping the graphics cards to 990/1150MHz. The 1:2 divider resulted in 827MHz (7-6-5-15) memory frequency. This resulted in a score of 133,035 points.
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Last but not least, AquaMark 3. A benchmark where single cards are usually better than dual. Mainly because multi-GPU setups hog too much CPU resources, but Hipro5’s score of 337,634 points was with two Radeon HD 3870 cards, still using the stock cooler. This time the processor was up as high as 5,902MHz.
Below are two pictures that show the difference Hipro5 and your generic benchmarker; DDR maximizer and crazy voltmods.
The sad part about all of this is that the processor is starting to matter more than the graphics cards, but that’s in now way Hipro5’s, Intel’s or Futuremark’s fault. It’s actually AMD’s for making Radeon HD 3870X2 and CrossFireX such CPU-frequency-loving creatures. One would think that perhaps a Skulltrail system would solve this, but no. It’s the pure frequency that matters, not the number of cores. If you would be able to raise the CPU frequency even further, the cards would keep scaling. They need more than 5.9GHz to really shine, which is just plain crazy.
You can check out his thread over at XtremeSystems for more information.
