Low score in 3dmark vantage

[TechHut]

Hello, Me and a few friends are doing a spin-off of the hw bot gt218 core benchmark competition. I have 3 cards in total 3 nvs 300's and 1 gt 210 so far they both have a gt 210 there getting around 4500 stock and about 6000 overclocked, I'm getting about 600 stock with a gt 210 and about 800 overclocked. The most I was able to get out of my nvs 300 was just over 1000. I have tried 3 different systems new installs of windows and still no luck. We are running at the same setting just gpu test 1 and 2. We are running the same drivers 341.74. Not sure if it matters but I have the same gt210 as one of them. Thank you for any help in advance!

 

[neeyik]

Here's a 3DMark Vantage (Performance test) I did with the UHD 630 GPU built into the Intel Core i7-9700K CPU:

https://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5817767 (Score of 8762)

That GPU is 5 years old, has a comparable shader core count of 23, with the same number of texture units, and 3 ROPs (render output units). The GeForce 210 is an absolute bottom-of-the-barrel GPU, when it comes to graphics processing. In the case of the former, it's a 13 years old architecture, with the chips fielding around 16 shader units, 8 texture units, and 4 ROPs.

The highest GeForce 210 score in 3DMark Vantage (Performance) on their database is:

https://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5651861 (Score of 2739)

Here's the two directly compared:

Result

www.3dmark.com

One can see that, discounting the CPU score differences, the UHD is significantly more capable than the 210. So one shouldn't expect anything spectacular from such a graphics card.

That said, if you're getting a score of 800 at best, the first question to ask is what test preset did you use? Here's a 210 result using the High preset:

https://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5740488 (Score of 516)

and here's an Extreme preset one:

https://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5882299 (Score of 363)

If, for example, you had used the High preset then getting a score of 800 would be pretty good.