RTX 3090 FE is underperforming

[dhruvky94]

Hi All,



So I recently finished my build and got some time yesterday to play around with my PC. I noticed right out of the box, my RTX 3090 FE was underperforming compared to the benchmarks/scores people have posted to forums. Here my PC specs:



CPU: Ryzen 5900X (Stock)

Cooler: NZXT X63

Ram: GSkill Tidentz NEO 3600MHZ

SSD: Samsung 1 TB EVO PLUS

GPU: RTX 3090 FE (Installed in PCIE first slot with Gen 4)

Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VIII Hero X570

PSU: Corsair RM1000X

Case: NZXT H710



I change my GPU's power management to: "Prefer high performance" and results improved a bit, but I am still not able to achieve 60 FPS 4k lock in games where I should.



Here is the timespy's best result (graphics only) with a very aggressive fan curve: 19,165

With out of the box setting: 19,020

AC:O

Setting: 4k, Ultra high

Issue: FPS drops to 54 during open world gameplay

Control:

Setting: 4k, DLSS: 1440p, RTX - High, Graphic- High

Issue: FPS drops to 50 during any action/new area



I am not sure what the issue is.... max temp for GPU is 69 with default fan curve...



Thanks for your inputs!

Edited November 18, 2020 by dhruvky94
Corrected the score origin

[tikker]

Is that the total Timespy score or just the graphics score?

[dhruvky94]

5 minutes ago, tikker said:

Is that the total Timespy score or just the graphics score?

Sorry my bad, it's the graphic score. Adjusted the original post too.

[tikker]

12 minutes ago, dhruvky94 said:

Sorry my bad, it's the graphic score. Adjusted the original post too.

Hmm. It feels a bit low looking at the 3D Mark results list, but on the other hand it's higher than their average... I'm not sure. Did you see how other benchmarks compare?

[dhruvky94]

Just now, tikker said:

Hmm. It feels a bit low looking at the 3D Mark results list, but on the other hand it's higher than their average... I'm not sure. Did you see how other benchmarks compare?

Yes, it's not very low... it's just not what it's supposed to be for an FE. TBH, I wouldn't have mind this if the games were performing as expected but like I mentioned in the post, the games I want to play right now are dropping fps to 50s when they are supposed to run at 60 locked.

[dhruvky94]

4 hours ago, tikker said:

Hmm. It feels a bit low looking at the 3D Mark results list, but on the other hand it's higher than their average... I'm not sure. Did you see how other benchmarks compare?

I checked the list again, it's actually lower than average: https://tinyurl.com/yyckghf7

[tikker]

2 hours ago, dhruvky94 said:

I checked the list again, it's actually lower than average: https://tinyurl.com/yyckghf7

Ah right. I must've clicked overall score instead of graphics score. When gaming or benchmarking, what clock speeds does the card reach? Do e.g. MSI Afterburner or anything show signs of throttling (power or otherwise)?

[dhruvky94]

6 hours ago, tikker said:

Ah right. I must've clicked overall score instead of graphics score. When gaming or benchmarking, what clock speeds does the card reach? Do e.g. MSI Afterburner or anything show signs of throttling (power or otherwise)?

The speeds are quite low compared to benchmarks I have seen online. It hits max 1800 MHZ on core with reason being Power limit.

[dhruvky94]

Bump! Any tips here?

[dhruvky94]

One additional observation: I used game mode on my Ryzen 5900x and the score immediately improved by 200 pts for the graphics test but dropped for the CPU part. Could my CPU be holding back the Graphics score of my GPU?

[jones177]

The games scores are a bit low but when I got my first 2080 ti in 2018 the game scores were low as well. It took about 6 months of driver updates to change that.

 

Still a lot of people think the 2080 ti was not a good upgrade from a 1080 ti but in reality it was better than going from a 980 ti to a 1080 ti.

 

Give it some time.

 

[dhruvky94]

53 minutes ago, jones177 said:

The games scores are a bit low but when I got my first 2080 ti in 2018 the game scores were low as well. It took about 6 months of driver updates to change that.

 

Still a lot of people think the 2080 ti was not a good upgrade from a 1080 ti but in reality it was better than going from a 980 ti to a 1080 ti.

 

Give it some time.

 

Ok thanks.... I am jumping from GTX 1080 to RTX 3090 

[jones177]

2 minutes ago, dhruvky94 said:

Ok thanks.... I am jumping from GTX 1080 to RTX 3090 

That is a big jump.

 

My GTX 1080 stuttered in half my games for the first 6 months. I used it with a 3440 X 1440 monitor. Fortunately I had 2 980 tis in SLI in my 4k rig so I just waited it out until the drivers got fixed.

 

Looking forward to any updates you do.

[true1hart]

18790 Timespy 4k

20302 Timespy

 

EVGA FTW3 Ultra

 

[dhruvky94]

9 hours ago, jones177 said:

That is a big jump.

 

My GTX 1080 stuttered in half my games for the first 6 months. I used it with a 3440 X 1440 monitor. Fortunately I had 2 980 tis in SLI in my 4k rig so I just waited it out until the drivers got fixed.

 

Looking forward to any updates you do.

 

Yup.... I am loving the performance so far... I don't have a monitor so I pair it up with a OLED TV which is 4k and GTX 1080 wasn't cutting it for most games.

[dhruvky94]

8 hours ago, true1hart said:

18790 Timespy 4k

20302 Timespy

 

EVGA FTW3 Ultra

 

Yeah my results are 19,124 max in Timespy.