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Higher than expected VRmark score 8997 with i7 2600k and GTX 980 ti

Mullered
Expert Protege
According to VR mark my PC scores higher than a "premium high end PC".  The listed spec for a premium high end PC is an i7 5930k and GTX 1080. Im running a 6 year old 2600k (at 4.3ghz) and a GTX 980ti (stock), not a bad machine but I wouldn't expect it to score as high as it did.  I've run the test several times now and got the same score.  Has anyone else run VR mark with a similar spec machine?  If so what score do you get?

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Richooal
Consultant
I don't think they are referring to a "Premium High End PC" in terms of VR, just in terms of non VR performance.

I get a score of 7108 (400 more than high end) and I only have a GTX1060 with i5 6600k.
i5 6600k - GTX1060 - 8GB RAM - Rift CV1 + 3 Sensors - 1 minor problem
Dear Oculus, If it ain't broke, don't fix it, please.

Gadgetguy007
Explorer
Im still running an I5 2500k but have just added a GTX1080ti and now get this.


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Mullered
Expert Protege


Im still running an I5 2500k but have just added a GTX1080ti and now get this.





Quite close to my score. Is your 2500k overclocked?  Good to see these older processors still holding their own.  I actually moved from the Oculus stated minimum spec i5 4590 to my 2600k despite the fact it's a lot older.  The 2600k was originally going to go in my daugter's VR PC which I'm building her for Christmas, but decided to put it in my machine when I noticed it was benchmarking higher than my 4590. Lone Echo is a lot smoother now!

falken76
Expert Consultant
I have an old cpu like yours, it's a 2600k it's not overclocked and the GPU is a GTX 1060 6GB.  I'm not sure what it gets on VRmark I'll check, but I was able to play Az Sunshine Co-Op yesterday while my friend watched a Marvel movie on netflix running off the same machine and there was no problem at all with the game or the movie.  This machine is old as dirt but it runs VR very very well.

cybereality
Grand Champion
That's a really great score. I'm getting less that 8,000 with a Ryzen and Vega card.
http://www.3dmark.com/vrm/21627802
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | MSI X370 Titanium | G.Skill 16GB DDR4 3200 | EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 | Corsair Hydro H110i Gigabyte RX Vega 64 x2 | Samsung 960 Evo M.2 500GB | Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB | Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV

Mullered
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That's a really great score. I'm getting less that 8,000 with a Ryzen and Vega card.
http://www.3dmark.com/vrm/21627802


The overclocked 2600k seems to love VR. I'm stuck on on 4.3ghz because of the cooler but I'm hoping to get water cooling and push it to 4.8 maybe higher ... will be interesting to see how it affects the score. Is the vega card AMD? Not heard of it.

Mullered
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falken76 said:

I have an old cpu like yours, it's a 2600k it's not overclocked and the GPU is a GTX 1060 6GB.  I'm not sure what it gets on VRmark I'll check, but I was able to play Az Sunshine Co-Op yesterday while my friend watched a Marvel movie on netflix running off the same machine and there was no problem at all with the game or the movie.  This machine is old as dirt but it runs VR very very well.


Does your motherboard allow overclocking? You can get a a lot out of these chips with a little pushing.  You'd obviously need some decent cooling too

Mullered
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Mullered said:



That's a really great score. I'm getting less that 8,000 with a Ryzen and Vega card.
http://www.3dmark.com/vrm/21627802


The overclocked 2600k seems to love VR. I'm stuck on on 4.3ghz because of the cooler but I'm hoping to get water cooling and push it to 4.8 maybe higher ... will be interesting to see how it affects the score. Is the vega card AMD? Not heard of it.


Just googled your card ... perhaps AMD is not as tuned for VR .... or maybe the VRmark benchmark favours intel kit?

BeastyBaiter
Superstar
Vega is AMD's newest Etherium mining, err, I mean graphics card. 😛

Vega 64 Liquid cooled edition is faster than a GTX 1080 TI in terms of raw compute performance but gaming with it is currently closer to a regular 1080. The plain Vega 64 is slightly slower while the Vega 56 is roughly equal to a GTX 1070 in games. Drivers may improve that in the future.

As for the OP, that is a surprisingly good score. My system got 9625 with the following:
CPU: R5 1600X at 3.95 GHz
GPU: GTX 1080 TI
RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2667
Drive: 500GB Samsung 960 Evo
Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk