Bad performance (970 GTX)

NoBioN · Dec 16, 2014

Hi everyone.

Since a upgrade from a Geforce 560 Ti to a Geforce 970 GTX i've been dissapointed by the performance upgrade. But i think the problem is on my end.

I google the game "Ryse - Son of rome" which i thought is a fine game for "benchmarking" my game compared to others.

Running the game with Very high settings and etc. should run fine. According to youtube video's and websites, people with similiar setups have smooth gameplay. I have in generally often only around the 30 fps mark and with alot going on, on the screen, it typically dives down to 15-25 fps.

Ryse - Son of rome is not the only game in which i think the performance is not up to par. almost everything i throw at this new setup is not very impressive. My expectations to the 970 GTX was that it would bring my System up to date with fluid gameplay, afterall, its not a cheap card.

My Spec's are in my signature

Anyone have an idea what to do?

EarthDog · Dec 16, 2014

Cpu heavy game... Bad barometer.

Try something else like unigine heaven or something.

NoBioN · Dec 16, 2014

One of those whom i compared my system to, was running a I5-3570K which is not that far from a i5-2500K

I also used MSI afterburner to check... Game was constantly using 98% load on the GPU while being in the 60-80% on the 4 different CPU cores...

GatorChamp · Dec 16, 2014

As stated by earthdog, get a different test(s). Use something like heaven, Crysis 1 or 3, Farcry 4, Metro, Witcher 2 ect...

EarthDog · Dec 16, 2014

NoBioN said:
One of those whom i compared my system to, was running a I5-3570K which is not that far from a i5-2500K

I also used MSI afterburner to check... Game was constantly using 98% load on the GPU while being in the 60-80% on the 4 different CPU cores...

are you sure the resolution was the same? In game Settings? Cpu clock speed?

But as we said, do something less cpu intensive. Hwbot unigine heaven would be great.

NoBioN · Dec 17, 2014

EarthDog said:
are you sure the resolution was the same? In game Settings? Cpu clock speed?

But as we said, do something less cpu intensive. Hwbot unigine heaven would be great.

Yes, same settings.

Hmm.. might try Unigine heaven

NoBioN · Dec 17, 2014

Okay...

Did a Unigine Valley test... Preset was Extreme HD

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:
48.7
Score:
2040
Min FPS:
22.3
Max FPS:
92.0
System

Platform:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (3292MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 9.18.13.4475/Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000 9.17.10.3347 (4095MB) x1
Settings

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Extreme HD

Not sure if this is good or bad...

Look at this thread.. and go to post #47 Compared to that, this is not very impressive at all!!

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic...ark-scores-thread-over-250-submissions/page-3

ATMINSIDE · Dec 17, 2014

Get Unigine Heaven from this link:
http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/hwbot_unigine_heaven_v103/index.htm

Run both Basic and Xtreme, then tell us the scores you get.

NoBioN · Dec 17, 2014

Basic:

Extreme:

GPU:

Basic did not run very well... is it supposed to be running worse?

ATMINSIDE · Dec 17, 2014

Does your CPU ever clock up higher than the 1.6GHz shown?

NoBioN · Dec 18, 2014

ATMINSIDE said:
Does your CPU ever clock up higher than the 1.6GHz shown?

Yes

Any comment to the scores i got?

EarthDog · Dec 18, 2014

Scores are a bit low... I am reviewing a 970 now and in the version of Heaven you posted, I scored 2,990.xx. NOW, that card is HEAVILY overclocked out of the box (its 120MHz higher clocked out of the box). But you are still a couple hundred points low.

Have you run MSI AB and checked the graphs for the core clock throttling?

NoBioN · Dec 20, 2014

Made a clean driver install and OC'ed the CPU to 4.6 GHZ and extreme preset of the HWBOT Unigine heaven benchmark scored 2527 points compared to the earlier 2344.

NoBioN · Dec 20, 2014

3dmark 2010 "Fire strike" test. just the normal free one... Score is

SCORE
8709 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(1x) and Intel Core i5-2500K Processor

Graphics Score 10645
Physics Score 8269
Combined Score 3814

EDIT:

Tried OC'ing the GPU +140 mhz to core clock and +500 mhz to memory clock which increased the score with about 500 points

grumperfish · Dec 20, 2014

That seems low compared to my 290 results. Do you have some rogue process running and maxing out your CPU maybe?

NoBioN · Dec 21, 2014

grumperfish said:
That seems low compared to my 290 results. Do you have some rogue process running and maxing out your CPU maybe?

Not that im aware... everything is fairly Oc'ed and should be well... Clean OS install a month ago

NoBioN · Dec 26, 2014

I tried installing a new PSU today, a Be Quiet 580 watt 80+ gold certified... Also i tried running with and without OC on CPU... there is no differences.

I have been tracking how things run with RivaTuner in many games and i see that the CPU never seems to be near maxed out. its always the graphics card and its sitting at 98 % most of the time. I guess Riva never really shows 100%?

As said, i overclocked the card and tempatures arent bad at all as they are never above 70 degree's from what i recall...

Must be faulty motherboard or something that does i can't archieve good results with my setup... with this much Overclocking it should be delivering fairly better... i just can't identify a problem

EarthDog · Dec 27, 2014

grumperfish said:
That seems low compared to my 290 results. Do you have some rogue process running and maxing out your CPU maybe?

3dmark scores are cpu dependent... The more core, the more you score...

Mr.Scott · Dec 27, 2014

EarthDog · Dec 27, 2014

Gpuz always does that idle. Put a load on it and it should ramp up...

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