Low Unigine Heaven score

[alvarengalucas55]

So I've decided to benchmark my PC and got a score of 2062, but I've seen scores reaching 3000+. I'm using a Ryzen 7 1700 and a EVGA GTX 1080 by the way. I've tried a couple of fixes online to no avail. Any tips?

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

And are those with higher scores using the exact same build?

 

[alvarengalucas55]

And are those with higher scores using the exact same build?

Good point. Is Ryzen not optimized for this benchmark? I was expecting a bit more FPS. From what I've seen, most of the scores were achieved with Intel CPUs, but I wouldn't think it'd be such a big impact, like 1000 points.

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

Intel CPU's are faster in gaming because of the higher clock speed. I assume the same is true with this benchmark.

 

[alvarengalucas55]

Intel CPU's are faster in gaming because of the higher clock speed. I assume the same is true with this benchmark.

That might be it. But does it really justify such a big desparity? I also noticed that dropping AA to 4x boosted the score to around 2800, that's why I thought it was a graphics card issue.

 

[Kasper Jorgensen]

Intel CPU's are faster in gaming because of the higher clock speed. I assume the same is true with this benchmark.

That might be it. But does it really justify such a big desparity? I also noticed that dropping AA to 4x boosted the score to around 2800, that's why I thought it was a graphics card issue.

Intel has higher clock speed and better IPC.
Bottom line, don't compare scores with different systems.

 

[alvarengalucas55]

Intel CPU's are faster in gaming because of the higher clock speed. I assume the same is true with this benchmark.

That might be it. But does it really justify such a big desparity? I also noticed that dropping AA to 4x boosted the score to around 2800, that's why I thought it was a graphics card issue.

Intel has higher clock speed and better IPC.
Bottom line, don't compare scores with different systems.

Sorry then 😛. It's just that I didn't find any Ryzen benchmarks on Heaven, but I probably didn't look deep enough. Anyways, thank you for your time!

 

[cryoburner]

Is your 1700 overclocked, or at stock clocks? The 1700 should be overclockable up near 4GHz, which might make a difference. Some of those scores might have been for heavily overclocked GTX 1080s as well. And we are talking about running the same resolution and settings, right?

There could be other things like thermal-throttling at play here too. You might need to check temperatures and cpu/gpu utilization during the benchmark to see whether there might be some other factor at play. And of course, close any other applications like web browsers while running it, since things running in the background could impact performance as well.

 

[alvarengalucas55]

Is your 1700 overclocked, or at stock clocks? The 1700 should be overclockable up near 4GHz, which might make a difference. Some of those scores might have been for heavily overclocked GTX 1080s as well. And we are talking about running the same resolution and settings, right?

There could be other things like thermal-throttling at play here too. You might need to check temperatures and cpu/gpu utilization during the benchmark to see whether there might be some other factor at play. And of course, close any other applications like web browsers while running it, since things running in the background could impact performance as well.

Everything is stock and the settings are the same, all apps closed. The GPU peaks at about 72 degrees C, while the CPU in previous gaming sessions wouldn't even reach 60 degrees. So, maybe it's overclocking time?

 

[cryoburner]

When it comes to Ryzen 7, the 1700 is technically the same CPU as the 1800X, just clocked lower. AMD selects the chips that clock best to use for those parts with higher stock clocks, but the 1700 should overclock nearly as well, and even its stock cooler is capable of a reasonable amount of overclocking, being a 95 watt cooler on a CPU with a 65 watt stock TDP...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzIIIoSveU0

So, yeah, overclocking is generally a good idea for the 1700. You're not going to match the per-core performance of someone who's overclocked their i7-7700k near 5GHz with an expensive cooler, but you ultimately have more cores available, so there's more performance potential overall, even if most of today's games don't directly make use of all of them.

And of course, Unigine Heaven isn't actually a game, and the stability of performance in actual games is more important.