FurMark

Non-Reference GALAXY GeForce GTX 470 and FurMark: Temperatures Are Under Control!

3 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/05/06 at 16:27

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards Tags: furmark, Galaxy, geforce gtx 470, gpu temperature, non-reference

Galaxy GeForce GTX 470

[GPU Tool] EVGA OC Scanner 1.0.5 Available

4 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/05/05 at 22:57

Categories: EVGA OC Scanner, FurMark, GPU Tools Tags: artifact scanner, evga oc scanner, furmark, gpu burner, p-state, performance state, stress test

EVGA OC Scanner 1.0.5

Thermalright Spitfire VGA cooler and VRM-R5 Heatsinks Tested With FurMark

3 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/04/30 at 12:21

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards, VGA Coolers Tags: furmark, heatsink, radeon hd 5850, spitfire, thermalright, vga cooler, vrm, vrm-r5

Radeon HD 5850 with Thermalright Spitfire VGA cooler and VRM heatsinks

GeForce GTX 480 4-Way SLI Tested with FurMark

7 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/04/26 at 16:29

Categories: FurMark, GPU Tools, Graphics Cards Tags: 4 way sli, furmark, geforce gtx 480, gpu temperature, gtx 480, power consumption

4-way SLI GeForce GTX 480

4-way SLI GeForce GTX 480 running FurMark

[GPU Tool] FurMark 1.8.2 Available

65 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/04/19 at 12:08

Categories: Benchmarks, FurMark, GPU Tools, OpenGL Tags: benchmark burner, furmark 1.8.2, gpu, graphics card, opengl, Overclocking, stress test

FurMark 1.8.2 - Graphics card stress test tool

Zalman VF3000N VGA Cooler FurMarked

Be the first to comment - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - at 10:09

Categories: FurMark, VGA Coolers Tags: furmark, geforce gtx 2xx, vf3000n, vga cooler, Zalman

Zalman VF3000 VGA Cooler

Power Consumption of Two GTX 480 in SLI With FurMark and 3DMark03

9 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/04/14 at 16:52

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards Tags: 3dmark03, furmark, geforce gtx 480, power consumption, sli, zotac

Zotac GeForce GTX 480 in SLI
Two Zotac GeForce GTX 480 in 2-way SLI

GeForce GTX 480 Tortured by FurMark: 300W and Earplugs Required!

24 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2010/03/28 at 22:44

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards Tags: furmark, geforce gtx 480, gpu temperature, gtx480, power consumption, tdp

Radeon HD 5970 Overclocking Problems with FurMark

7 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2009/11/25 at 14:44

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards, Overclocking Tags: furmark, gpu, protection, radeon hd 5970, temperature, throttling, vrm

Radeon HD 5970

Overcloked Radeon HD 5970 + FurMark

ATI Cypress (Radeon HD 5870) Cards Have Hardware Protection Against Power Virus Like FurMark and OCCT

17 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2009/09/25 at 16:50

Categories: Articles, FurMark, GPU Tools, Graphics Cards Tags: Cypress, furmark, gpu, hardware protection, occt, overcurrent, radeon hd 5870, tdp, vrm

Radeon HD 5870 and FurMark, OCCT

FurMark Slowdown by Catalyst Graphics Drivers is INtentional!

12 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2009/09/16 at 08:36

Categories: Catalyst, FurMark Tags: AMD, catalyst, furmark, gpu temperature, occt, optimization, overheat, power virus, protection, radeon

FurMark

Catalyst 9.8 and 9.9 Improve Protection Against FurMark

9 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2009/09/14 at 14:37

Categories: Catalyst, FurMark, Test Tags: catalyst, furmark, power virus, protection

AMD/ATI graphics drivers

Graphics Cards Power Consumption: GeForce GTX 295, Radeon HD 4870 X2 and FurMark

2 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2009/03/02 at 10:57

Categories: FurMark, Graphics Cards Tags: ATI, furmark, graphics card, NVIDIA, power consumption

Graphics Cards Power Consumption with FurMark

[Geek3D-Test] FurMark, Catalyst 8.8 and HIS Radeon HD 4850: Torture Test PASSED!

9 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/29 at 17:54

Categories: Catalyst, FurMark, Graphics Cards, Test Tags: catalyst, catalyst 8.8, furmark, graphics card, graphics driver, hd 4850, heat, mosfet, overheat, radeon hd 4850, thermic, video card, voltage regulator module, vrm

Ok now that I have in my hands a HIS’s Radeon HD 4850, I played with this card and of course did the FurMark renaming experience with Catalyst 8.8 (see ATI Optimizes Catalyst 8.8 to be FurMark-Proof!). The difference of score in simply… incredible, better it’s shocking! Here is the score when I launch FurMark.exe: 2234 points

And now, the score when FurMark.exe is renamed in… ati.exe (why not?): 4383 points

This score is almost twice the first one. That explains now the odd result I get with FurMark in this post: ATI Catalyst 8.8 vs 8.7: OpenGL Performance Drop.

I launched in the same time the Catalyst Control Center in the Overdrive panel to check how frequencies vary:

In both tests, the frequencies were the same. ATI Catalyst 8.8 does not downclock the GPU frequency but makes the GPU running slower (what does it means???). Anyway, it seems obvious the Radeon HD 4800 series have some serious thermic problems. Maybe I could add a kind of GPU temperature limitation for Radeon HD 4800 series. If temperature exceeds 90 degrees on Radeon HD 4850 and HD 4870, FurMark will stop the rendering or will render one frame over two or three… But actually I think I’m not going to do that. FurMark is a torture test but it’s most of all a standard OpenGL application. I don’t use low level code or different rendering path for Radeon or GeForce. The same code is injected in both rendering pipeline. And then any OpenGL 2.0 compliant GPU should process this code if the surrounding graphics hardware (I mean memory modules, power MOSFETs properly cooled, etc.) is well designed and implemented by graphics cards makers. The proof, HIS’s Radeon HD 4850 PASSED all FurMark tests I did, with stock clocks as well as with overclocked clocks.

Now dear readers, let’s burn HIS’s Radeon HD 4850.

- Stock clocks: GPU=625MHz and Memory=993MHz

94 degrees after 3 minutes in 640×480 no AA windowed mode: TEST PASSED!
96 degrees after 3 minutes in 1024×768 no AA windowed mode: TEST PASSED!

- Basic Overclocking: GPU=660MHz and Memory=1005MHz

96 degrees after 3 minutes in 1024×768 no AA windowed mode: TEST PASSED!

- Overclocking: GPU=680MHz and Memory=993MHz

96 degrees after 3 minutes in 1024×768 no AA windowed mode: : TEST PASSED!

- Overclocking: GPU=680MHz and Memory=1100MHz

97 degrees in 1024×768 no AA windowed mode. After 140 seconds, VPU Recover:

Yes the latest overclocking was a little bit extreme, but it shows HIS’s Radeon HD 4850 is a very good product and is already FurMark-Proof. No need hidden tweak in Catalyst to run FurMark. I think graphics cards that do not resist to FurMark torture tests are either bad quality products or have some bad cooled parts like the VRM (voltage regulator modules)…

ATI Optimizes Catalyst 8.8 to be FurMark-Proof!

15 comments - What do you think? Posted by JeGX - 2008/08/26 at 10:32

Categories: Catalyst, FurMark, Graphics Cards Tags: anti furmark, catalyst, catalyst 8.8, furmark, graphics driver, radeon hd 4850, radeon hd 4870, tweak

Here is an incredible news to start the day: Expreview has found that ATI’s Catalyst 8.8 have been optimized to detect FurMark and downclock the frequencies of a Radeon HD 4850/4870 to avoid to burn the GPU.

So if you have a Radeon HD 4850 or Radeon HD 4870, just rename FurMark.exe in something.exe and you will see the difference!

Expreview has done the test with Quake Wars: Emeny Territory and has renamed etqw.exe to FurMark.exe and saw performance drop from 141.3FPS to 93.7FPS!

I have not a Radeon HD 4000 series but I think that I’m going to buy a Radeon HD 4850 today!

It’s a pain to develop a benchmark to make it running properly on most graphics hardwares and now I have to include in FurMark a Catalyst anit-cheat???? Thanks AMD/ATI….

Why AMD doesn’t contact me directly to find out the problem???

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