Gaming on unraid..Whats your 3d mark scores??

[SpaceInvaderOne]

Hi Thought i'd make a post where we can post some benchmarks of our gaming vms using 3d mark.

 

Post your cpu, motherboard, and graphics card in your unraid box.

Then type of bios seabios or ovmf. Amount of cpu cores and ram assigned.

[SpaceInvaderOne]

To get started mine is win 10 vm

 

i7 6700, ASRock - Z170M Extreme4, EVGA gtx 960

seabios i440fx 2.3,  8 cpu cores,  24 gigs ram

 

test                score        graphics    physics    combined

fire strike 1.1    6804        7873          10619    2661

skydiver 1.0      20769      26255        10140    20881

cloudgate 1.1    22187      47923        7705

[ashman70]

I assume you guys are you using the demo for this since its not free, I can't seem to download the demo for free.

 

Gridrunner, are those the specs of your actual VM or the server hosting your VM?

[SpaceInvaderOne]

yes the first specs is from the server hosting my vm.

i7 6700, ASRock - Z170M Extreme4, EVGA gtx 960

The second is from the vm itself

seabios i440fx 2.3, 8 cpu cores, 24 gigs ram

 

you can download the 3dmark basic from http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2497/futuremark-3dmark-2013-v1-5-915/

 

[SpaceInvaderOne]

To get started mine is win 10 vm

 

i7 6700, ASRock - Z170M Extreme4, EVGA gtx 960

seabios i440fx 2.3,  8 cpu cores,  24 gigs ram

 

test                score        graphics    physics    combined

fire strike 1.1    6804        7873          10619    2661

skydiver 1.0      20769      26255        10140    20881

cloudgate 1.1    22187      47923        7705

Just setup a win 10 vm same specs but with ovmf bios

 

i7 6700, ASRock - Z170M Extreme4, EVGA gtx 960

ovmf  i440fx 2.3,  8 cpu cores,  24 gigs ram

 

test                score        graphics    physics    combined

fire strike 1.1    6975        8072          10770    2738.............all better than my seabios vm

skydiver 1.0      20629      26176        10061    20353...........all slightly lower than my seabios vm

cloudgate 1.1    22476      49975        7682..........................higher graphics slightly lower physics

 

 

each test i ran 3 times and got similar results.

Overall it would seem for me anyway i get better 3d performance using an ovmf vm

[dAigo]

Wouldn't it be much better to include the ID or the link to the result?

They have a very nice compare feature, so it would be easy to find differences.

 

Example: Fire Strike 1.1 (ID: 8408408)

 

test                    score        graphics    physics    combined

fire strike 1.1    16883        21048        12779    8432

 

That was from back in August '15, didn't run any tests since then.

 

physical: (c&p from my sig & reverted to around that time)

unRAID 6.1 | MB: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING | CPU: i7-6700K (watercooled) | RAM: 16GB DDR4 (2x8GB) | Parity: WD RED 6TB | Data: WD RED (2x 4TB + 2x 3TB) | Cache: Samsung 830 (256GB) | GPU: NVIDIA GTX 980 TI (watercooled)

 

virtual:  OVMF, i440fx-2.3, 7 cores, EVGA 980 TI, 8GB RAM, Win10x64 (10240), 60GB RAW/VirtIO image on cache, no other vms/docker running

 

The 980 ti is watercooled, but with the stock BIOS. So there is some room to improve.

I had to switch to SeaBIOS with Windows10 1511, because it broke my gpu passthrough.

I think i'll do some tests again, its for science after all

 

But it seems ovmf gets a lot more love in unraid 6.2.

I am planning to go back to ovmf and try a custom BIOS for the gpu to remove the powerlimits.

 

I dont have the .xml file from back then, but maybe anybody who posts their result could add their .xml for reference.

[SpaceInvaderOne]

Wouldn't it be much better to include the ID or the link to the result?

They have a very nice compare feature, so it would be easy to find differences.

 

Yes i think thats a great idea.

Awesome score 16883 makes me want to upgrade my card!!!

[cpthook]

Hello forum..  Is anyone still using 3DMark software to benchmark NVIDIA GPU's on KVM virtual machines in 2020?  My score has been in the 8450 - 8500 range with Time Spy DirectX 12.   However, since upgrading my rig with the specs below the application crashes intermittently during the "Scan SystemInfo" collection process when running v5.26.  

 

M/B: Supermicro X11SCA-F Version 1.01A - s/n: VM19AS013976

BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. Version 1.0c. Dated: 04/25/2019

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz (10 of 12 threads assigned to VM with threads 0,6 reserved for unRAID)

GPU: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] passthrough to Gaming VM

HVM: Enabled

IOMMU: Enabled

Cache: 384 KiB, 1536 KiB, 12288 KiB

Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 (max. installable capacity 64 GiB)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.98-Unraid x86_64

[scorcho99]

On 2/7/2020 at 5:47 PM, cpthook said:

Hello forum..  Is anyone still using 3DMark software to benchmark NVIDIA GPU's on KVM virtual machines in 2020?  My score has been in the 8450 - 8500 range with Time Spy DirectX 12.   However, since upgrading my rig with the specs below the application crashes intermittently during the "Scan SystemInfo" collection process when running v5.26. 

 

I tried yesterday to run 3dmark firestrike for first time ever on a z77 and rx 470 with a windows 8.1 VM, seabios based. I got crashing on scan systeminfo as well. So as a sanity test, I installed Windows 10 (1709?) fresh onto bare metal and tried it today and the benchmark ran without any apparent issues. I'm not sure the cause or if it ever worked.

 

I was running unraid 6.8.3, its just on my test rig.

 

I'll have to try and isolate the issue I guess. It seemed pretty stable, I was running heaven benchmark before. The system was having a lot of issues once I tried 3dmark though, not sure if all of them were related. I assume you were running Windows 10 in your VM?

 

I know there is a MSRS fix that you sometimes have to do, I've never done it myself but that seems like a possible culprit to me.