Your temp is lower and clock is higher and mem is higher on the higher score, so ....

Spent a more significant amount of time testing core/mem clocks last night and playing a bit with voltages. On the stock AIO, best sustained boost clock was 2175mhz, mem 1466mhz for a very disappointing PR score of 14547. next step will be fresh OS to see if efficiency was an issue. One thing I did notice and confirmed with a friend?
 
Driver 30.0.15.1277 (512.77) is more efficient than 31.0.15.1659 (516.59) by at least 200-300 points. With a little nudge on voltages, temps hitting 55-58C. For contrast, I was able to keep my 3090 HCs under 41C so I think we'll be able to go harder with better cooling. And funny enough, while I was tweaking clocks and voltages for a couple of hours, the scores seemed to improve around similar offsets as starting temps were up 3-5C. So maybe this bad boy just needs a bit of "breaking in" lol
 
And these are hardly the clean build pics some of y'all will be sharing, but I seldom make it a full week with the same hardware on the bench, so enjoy the chaos in all its lol glory
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
And if you questioned how OP this card is? lol
 

 
Of course, right as we're getting our cards, so are the elite xoc peeps. can he beat biso biso? 
 

kraade
Your temp is lower and clock is higher and mem is higher on the higher score, so ....

Mem is lower because stability is actually slightly worse with the x3D also. Multiple people over on the Overclockers forum have seen the same result. Even when temps and clocks are equal, it still scores lower anyway. I've done many baseline runs that all show the same thing. Same for everyone else.

I've even tested it in games. When completely GPU bound, the 5800x3D scores lower in game benchmarks as well. Only in high fps situations does the x3D really show its potential.

It's a pretty big disappointment for me as I wasn't expecting a gain in GPU bound situations, but I didn't realize it would be a slight loss.

my bad, I misread, I thought you borrowed your friends HOF as another datapoint for the baseline and testing.
 
bench looking awesome!  the 8 -> 12 pin is kind of ridiculous but I had imagined it to be worse.  nothing a few zip ties or velco straps cant make clean enough.  do you like the corsair blades performance better than the oloy you had before?

Do I spy a Mo-Ra? Love those. Have a 420 Pro at work. it's awesome.

redteamgo
my bad, I misread, I thought you borrowed your friends HOF as another datapoint for the baseline and testing.
 
bench looking awesome!  the 8 -> 12 pin is kind of ridiculous but I had imagined it to be worse.  nothing a few zip ties or velco straps cant make clean enough.  do you like the corsair blades performance better than the oloy you had before?

haha i wish! i would love to "borrow" that one, it's a beast
 
card did come with several velcro ties for the aio hoses and 8 to 12 pins, i may need to wrangle them later when card #2 arrives. plan to reinstall OS first to see if that pushes the scores where i think it should be.
 
the new bin of the dom plats are very nice. run xmp 6600 c32 at 1.4v which is just fantasic. with 1.5-1.55v they will push up to 7200 C32 without breaking a sweat. Haven't done much higher frequency testing 1T or anything cold yet. Hoping to get all that done in the coming weeks once I refill the dewars

B0baganoosh
Do I spy a Mo-Ra? Love those. Have a 420 Pro at work. it's awesome.

you know it! 420 pro on the bench, 360 pro back behind the daily. mora is life!

zippytek

B0baganoosh
Do I spy a Mo-Ra? Love those. Have a 420 Pro at work. it's awesome.

you know it! 420 pro on the bench, 360 pro back behind the daily. mora is life!

I have ideas based on that for my next big build. I tried to discuss that over here, but even though people looked at that post about 270 times, nobody has replied lol. I'm guessing it's a TLDR situation but also maybe a "oh dear god, this man is delusional, I'm not touching that"

B0baganoosh

zippytek

B0baganoosh
Do I spy a Mo-Ra? Love those. Have a 420 Pro at work. it's awesome.

you know it! 420 pro on the bench, 360 pro back behind the daily. mora is life!

I have ideas based on that for my next big build. I tried to discuss that over here, but even though people looked at that post about 270 times, nobody has replied lol. I'm guessing it's a TLDR situation but also maybe a "oh dear god, this man is delusional, I'm not touching that"

i dropped some info in there, not sure if it's helpful as i didn't read it that closely being end of my work day but i'll take another look in the morning :D

What kind of QD s do you use, I was eye-balling an alphacool 1080 and running Artic P12s just wide open