Twice two = 3DMark Vantage record
I am glad to inform you that a new issue of online computer magazine “i” has been released . On the pages of the magazine we talk about our favorite hobby - extreme overclocking . But we cannot accommodate all that stream of glands that have visited us under liquid nitrogen. A couple of days ago, in our test lab, the leader of the Russian overclocking system, Smoke, assembled a real monster of two heads - a system with two processors and two video cards.
As a result, the experiment ended with a world record in 3Dmark Vantage. The result was 60,335 marks. Details under the cut.
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Intel Xeon X5690 server processors helped achieve this result. Two such boxes cost us $ 3,700.
About three months Smoke hunted these xenon. Their main value is the presence of 27 multipliers. 27 * 133.3 = 3591 MHz. But no one planned to use such processors in the nominal. Thanks to the 27 multiplier when cooled with liquid nitrogen, processors can conquer frequencies above 5.6 GHz. This is exactly what Smoke needed to conquer the record.
Test bench:
- 2 Intel Xeon X5690 processor;
- EVGA Classified SR-II motherboard;
- 2 ASUS GTX580 Direct Cu II video cards;
- 2x 2 GB Corsair Dominator GTX2;
- WD Raptor 150 GB;
- power supply Antec TPQ 1200 watts OC.
Surely, most people know very little about the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, so I’ll focus on its capabilities and features in more detail.
Vantage has support for Microsoft DirectX 10, so it can only be run on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Naturally, the optimizations have done their job and the results are better in the seven. Moreover, for maximum results, the 64-bit version is better. But in the case of a config with two processors, better results are obtained in a 32-bit seven.
The final formula for calculating the result is the following formula:
3DMark Vantage = (Weight GPU + Weight CPU) / ((Weight GPU / GPU Score) + (Weight CPU / CPU Score)).
GPU score = (GPU Test1_Constant * Test1, FPS) + (GPU Test2_Constant * Test2, FPS)
CPU score = (CPU Test1_Constant * Test1) + (CPU Test1_Constant * Test2)
Vantage developers have done a serious job in the direction of increasing the result from the increase in the number of processors and video cards. Therefore, Smoke gave preference to a dual-processor configuration. For comparison, the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 990 processor gains about 55,000 marks at 6 GHz in CPU Tests, and the Intel Xeon X5690 pair at the nominal 3.6 GHz exceeds 60,000 marks.
With the choice of video cards everything was easier. Today, ASUS GTX580 Direct Cu II is best suited for overclocking:
After 6 different modifications, Direct Cu can accelerate to 1600 MHz. In SLI, frequencies are much lower. Smoke managed to get a couple of video cards to work at 1233/1200 MHz for the core and memory, respectively.
After three hours of torment, it was possible to fix the result at 60,335 marks. The merit of Smoke is not only in conquering the world record, but also in the fact that it is the only one in the world who could conquer the bar in 60k.
On behalf of the editorial board, we congratulate Smoke on a well-deserved record.
As a result, the experiment ended with a world record in 3Dmark Vantage. The result was 60,335 marks. Details under the cut.
')
Intel Xeon X5690 server processors helped achieve this result. Two such boxes cost us $ 3,700.
About three months Smoke hunted these xenon. Their main value is the presence of 27 multipliers. 27 * 133.3 = 3591 MHz. But no one planned to use such processors in the nominal. Thanks to the 27 multiplier when cooled with liquid nitrogen, processors can conquer frequencies above 5.6 GHz. This is exactly what Smoke needed to conquer the record.
Test bench:
- 2 Intel Xeon X5690 processor;
- EVGA Classified SR-II motherboard;
- 2 ASUS GTX580 Direct Cu II video cards;
- 2x 2 GB Corsair Dominator GTX2;
- WD Raptor 150 GB;
- power supply Antec TPQ 1200 watts OC.
Surely, most people know very little about the 3DMark Vantage benchmark, so I’ll focus on its capabilities and features in more detail.
Vantage has support for Microsoft DirectX 10, so it can only be run on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Naturally, the optimizations have done their job and the results are better in the seven. Moreover, for maximum results, the 64-bit version is better. But in the case of a config with two processors, better results are obtained in a 32-bit seven.
The final formula for calculating the result is the following formula:
3DMark Vantage = (Weight GPU + Weight CPU) / ((Weight GPU / GPU Score) + (Weight CPU / CPU Score)).
GPU score = (GPU Test1_Constant * Test1, FPS) + (GPU Test2_Constant * Test2, FPS)
CPU score = (CPU Test1_Constant * Test1) + (CPU Test1_Constant * Test2)
Vantage developers have done a serious job in the direction of increasing the result from the increase in the number of processors and video cards. Therefore, Smoke gave preference to a dual-processor configuration. For comparison, the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 990 processor gains about 55,000 marks at 6 GHz in CPU Tests, and the Intel Xeon X5690 pair at the nominal 3.6 GHz exceeds 60,000 marks.
With the choice of video cards everything was easier. Today, ASUS GTX580 Direct Cu II is best suited for overclocking:
After 6 different modifications, Direct Cu can accelerate to 1600 MHz. In SLI, frequencies are much lower. Smoke managed to get a couple of video cards to work at 1233/1200 MHz for the core and memory, respectively.
After three hours of torment, it was possible to fix the result at 60,335 marks. The merit of Smoke is not only in conquering the world record, but also in the fact that it is the only one in the world who could conquer the bar in 60k.
On behalf of the editorial board, we congratulate Smoke on a well-deserved record.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/116139/
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