Show Us Your WEI [3]


  1. Posts : 196
    Windows 7 / Windows 8.1
       #1161

    A Guy said:
    The nVidia Optimus technology involves switching between the integrated graphics and the discreet card. I'd assume during the assessment it would use the discreet card? Also, I believe it will default to the integrated GPU when the laptop is unplugged. Good numbers BTW, better then my desktop

    A Guy
    I think that this Optimus software is a bit screwy! I know that the WEI is showing the Intel but I don't think I have seen those numbers for other people using this chipset. I'm 99.99901% positive that the nVidia GPU is being rated and not the Intel because the only time my laptop makes the slightest sound is when I run the WEI or play a DVD. Since everything is SSD or in a RAM Disk I have no moving parts!

    Plus I have a hard time understanding how a drive would make the graphics score jump from 5.6 to a 6.7. The jump in numbers happened after the driver update PLUS my tampering with the nVidia settings and trying to make it the default card as much as possible.



    … I just ran a second WEI and even though no software or driver changes have ben made you can see the GPU actually dropped slightly.
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  2. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #1162

    BugOutMachine said:
    A Guy said:
    The nVidia Optimus technology involves switching between the integrated graphics and the discreet card. I'd assume during the assessment it would use the discreet card? Also, I believe it will default to the integrated GPU when the laptop is unplugged. Good numbers BTW, better then my desktop

    A Guy
    I think that this Optimus software is a bit screwy! I know that the WEI is showing the Intel but I don't think I have seen those numbers for other people using this chipset. I'm 99.99901% positive that the nVidia GPU is being rated and not the Intel because the only time my laptop makes the slightest sound is when I run the WEI or play a DVD. Since everything is SSD or in a RAM Disk I have no moving parts!

    Plus I have a hard time understanding how a drive would make the graphics score jump from 5.6 to a 6.7. The jump in numbers happened after the driver update PLUS my tampering with the nVidia settings and trying to make it the default card as much as possible.



    … I just ran a second WEI and even though no software or driver changes have ben made you can see the GPU actually dropped slightly.
    It is showing it is rating the integrated graphics. How odd. The laptop is plugged in? What power management settings do you have?
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  3. Posts : 196
    Windows 7 / Windows 8.1
       #1163

    Yes I have it plugged in and I'm using the ASUS Power4Gear Hybrid's "High Performance" setting. I'm confident it's reading the nVidia and not the Intel and it's a fluke that the WEI is reporting it. I went into the nVidia settings and set everything to use it's card instead of the Intel embedded. Even that was an experience! My Bigfoot Network Killer card started crashing until I added it into the nVidia settings and selected the Intel chip for graphics. So weird!
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  4. Posts : 196
    Windows 7 / Windows 8.1
       #1164

    Also I went into the power settings and adjusted the CPU to 100% min/max and "performance" for everything while plugged in.
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  5. Posts : 53,363
    Windows 10 Home x64
       #1165

    As you say, the Optimus must be playing with it somehow. Oh well, it's just a WEI number. Hopefully you don't see or feel any difference because of it. A Guy
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  6. Posts : 20
    Windows 7 Professional 32-bit on E6420, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit on other three
       #1166

    5.0 on my wife's four-year-old Toshiba Satellite U500-10L;
    3.1 () on my three-year-old Getac B300.
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  7. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #1167

    I have the Optimus in my laptop. Mine reads the Intel graphics for the Graphics catagory and the Nvidia card for the Gaming graphics catagory, Which stinks in my opinion. It does not matter on mine whether it is plugged in or not.
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  8. Posts : 686
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1
       #1168

    Well, actually it reads the Nvidia drivers for everything because 8.17.12.9610 is a mask for Forceware 296.10

    This 296.10 is the first release where you can again (after some really old drivers) actually get the highest possible scores for Nvidia GT 540M for both graphics benchmarks, because usually the desktop benchmark would get a lower score than the Intel HD 3000 Graphics would get on their own (6,2 - I tried it, verified). Now, by setting all to Nvidia Graphics, I can actually get this:

    Show Us Your WEI [3]-wei.jpg

    Usually, you would get 5,6 for desktop performance graphics. There was some serious love lost between Optimus and the WINSAT algorithm.
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  9. Posts : 4,161
    Windows 7 Pro-x64
       #1169

    The note at the bottom of Bug's WEI indicates that it uses the "primary" graphics adapter. I've never seen that note on mine because I don't have a discrete graphics card so I'm guessing that if he swaps the use of the card (secondary to primary), WEI will use the card in the performance test. At least that's how I see it.

    By the way, I get 6.2 on gaming graphics with Intel HD-2000. Aero is 5.6. I suspect this is because of the limited memory available to HD graphics. I don't game but I've seen warnings in my log that indicates Aero is degrading. These seem to correspond to times that I have a pot load of windows open.
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  10. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #1170

    Teerex, thanks I updated the graphice driver and my WEI score on my laptop went from 4.9 to 6.7.
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