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that's another 50% performance left on the table!!! especially in mixed application like nvidia and cpu working together, one of the reasons my cpu score went up from 9k to where it is now is due to adding a second 8g sodimm ram stick, for a total of 16gb ram and along the way activating dual channel mode which increases performance, i wanted to save on Dell's expensive ram and get aftermarket 64gb kit which should arrive by the end of the month, i ordered my unit with only one 8gb sodimm stick, my replacement unit arrived so i borrowed the ram from it to test, and sure enough my cpu jumped from 9k to 15.5k just by the ram and dual channel merits,

if you game, run a session and see if you can spot a differences in-game performance,

i noticed you run slightly different CPU than me, i run with i9-12950HX you run with i7-12850HX, our results may vary slightly,

no need for the gforce experience module, just the driver itself, select custom install, uncheck experience leave the rest checked, at the bottom of the frame check "perform a clean install" and off you go, after make sure your NVidia settings you just applied didn't revert,

ahh... you also want to download the latest game ready driver from NVidia site (don't use dell driver), the top triangular exclamation sigh in orange above your score, that means your driver is not certified, after you update your driver you should have a better performing driver and certified green sign,

that's huge, roughly 50% increase in cpu performance! it also appears that your score is the highest on your segment, you got "legendary" score and the previous highest is lower than your run, congrats and well done! these scores are not too far from mine (i did apply LM TIM back for testing), let it cool down bit and try again (see my second run score) i also added few suggestions for you to improve NVidia performance, see my post above,

correct me if i'm wrong, didn't i read somewhere on here that you turned off turbo in bios? indeed we do :) double check your bios settings, try to match what i suggested above! you might want to make sure these basic settings are also in place, In NVidia control panel > “adjust image settings with preview” menu, Check “use my preference…” and drag the slider to performance, hit apply! next on the same menu leave the slider where it is select “use the advance 3d image settings” tab, hit apply! Move to “manage 3d settings” menu "global settings" tab and make sure “power management mode” is set to “prefer max performance” “texture filtering” is set to “high performance” “vertical sync” is set to “off” Move to “program settings” tab and select 3Dmark.exe, make sure the above are set for that application as well,

are we running same base system? (i run 7670) is your bios is set on ultra performance and windows is running ultimate power for the test? (cool plan in bios will restrict dGpu performance, also in bios turn off hybrid mode)

that's odd, on my system i immediately gained 10% on 3DMARK,

just heard back from Dell's engineer responding to my TDP support ticket, he informed me that this specific gpu actually has a 175W TDP, more to come...

here we go gents... regain ≥ 10% performance by enabling resizable bar. 3DMARK first test with these settings activated, no under or over volt (still with 125 TDP), (my cpu is clearly not happy atm not being undervolted and is basically capped throughout the run) setup_var CpuSetup 0x42B 0x1 # Enable PCIE Resizable BAR Support (default 0x0 = off)

indeed, i under/overclock gpu, added 200 Mhz, but no matter what i did gpu wouldn't improve or get near average, as if it was already pushing itself to its max, which i believe it is within its TDP limits atm, these 42 off limit watts equal to 50%-60% inaccessible gpu performance, which we all paid for and i think we all like to have available at our disposal, it is possible that your cpu is overheating preventing dgpu from ramping up over 130W? in your specific case you have all 4 m.2 populated with 128 CANN module, maybe you are on the edge of power? (in our private i forgot to include the monitor in the wattage count 😮) I've come up with a theory, Dell might be segmenting gpu TDP based on the monitor of choice, as if trying to balance power consumption to peripherals (in my case 4k oled touch), all the while ignoring the basic scenario where end user do not use their screen as main output, in that case the screen wattage math is out the window yet we still cannot regain gpu's full potential,

out of curiosity i had a feeling something is off with nvflash and sure enough there is, i figured let me try to re-flash my own vbios, guess what... got a mismatch error with my own vbios i dumped and tried to flash back, run nvflash tool again with -6 switch, mismatch again only this time it asked me twice to override something, flash did complete this time around, so something in the tool needs updating to bypass NVidia new shenanigans,

@Aaron44126 reported his 7770 with 150 TDP, he also posted his vbios few posts back, unfortunately flash tool is having some issues cross flashing to this new 10DE:2420 chip variant, 150 TDP is better than 125, even 1w is a performance increase, native turbo for these new 3080 Ti 16gb variant is 167w, i see no reason why we should be limited to 125, (regardless if we can fully utilize in this chassis) some may perceive the following as nitpicking, i don't... on 3DMARK our 125 TDP is scoring 50% lower than average same configuration out in the wild, i tweaked and tuned everything i can but the gpu is scoring 9k max while others average 13.5k, i was able to break top cpu score on 3DMARK for the 12950hx (top cpu score is 14.5k), but the gpu score drags the unit to 50% below average, cpu in these units now days is secondary to gpu importance, leaving over 50% gpu performance on the table is just wrong for precision class workstation,

i have requested for his version and if possible a copy, he has not yet visited back to read my respond and reply, i also raised a technical ticket with Dell support requesting unrestricted vbios for the 3080, the agent was very nice and cool about it, she was unable to locate a higher TDP vbios and also requested the version number so she can match to his version, but i am still waiting for his response to fill in the gaps,

Thank you Operator, we learned the past few days some of us received 3080 units with 125 some with 150 and some with 157 TDP, one member notified me in private that he received his 7670 with 3080Ti at 157 TDP, the search is after the higher TDP vbios variants, we should have a repo for these once located, (the member with 7670 & 3080 Ti & 157w TDP who notified me in private has not visited the site since i replied 😞) grab your spectacles 😉

any 7670 owners with 3080 Ti out there willing to help with their vbios copy?

under the hood it does have changes that may or may not effect you pending one preferences, 22H2 further locks system security and adds few new native security services, in 22H1 it is easier to turns these off, in 22H2 its more cumbersome,

i have a 7670 with 16-inch, OLED UHD+ 3840 x 2400, 60 Hz, Anti-Glare, Touch, 100% DCIP3, 400 nits, IR Cam/Mic WLAN Item number: 391-BGSO

Thank you, gave it a try i get "ERROR: No NVIDIA display adapters found." it seems that the 3080 Ti chip 10DE-2420 in these is fairly new, all vflash revisions i tested with fail on not recognizing the card, the only revision that recognized the card is the recent unmoded build, it recognizes the card but fails on deploying even with -6 and "Y" confirmation, maybe the next build will support these newer chips,

@ATAN hang in there for bit longer, we are about to find out if this will shape up to be the current reigning king, i believe it can be even with its inferior current thermal solution it can be dialed in to do almost anything one can expect from top of the line mobile workstation today as we are learning together here, as mentioned earlier you can achieve higher CB scores by further tuning unneeded system services, correct me if i'm wrong... you currently have in the neighborhood of 150+ process running in the background at idle, my system has only 50 process running in the background at idle (after i tune the system to my liking), you would be surprised how much resources are wasted and the gains you have left on the table (see my task manager image below, the +1 is task manager itself running in foreground), i can confirm that while cool bios preset can still produce the highest scores on CB23, while keeping system surfaces cooler and almost completely eliminating thermal throttling, for 3DMARK and such mixed benchmarks cool bios settings will limit dgpu output,

@ATAN have you not been following my tests? as soon as i unleash the GPU TDP limit the 7X70 will the best workstation platform out there today, i already exceeded the best cpu results on 3DMARK with 15.6k, top performing before was 14.5k, i just need gpu to follow suit to take over the first position on 3DMARK, it doesn't really take much to get there, i already shown the same results can be reached with or without LM TIM and OEM pads! the rest is just system wide service tuning and few specific bios settings (and my secret sauce),

it seems as if Dell is setting vbios TDP based on selected screen option (which should not be the case),

i tested that as well, they all give the same error "ERROR: No NVIDIA display adapters found." the latest build with -6 switch also fails after prompting an overwrite, no idea what is missing for the tool to proceed, im hoping the private member who contacted me will share his vbios,

tested with that revision too, no go 😞 that version is not recognizing my gpu at all,