Underwhelming RTX3080 Performance

[Moinkyz]

I'll address the elephant in the room first, because inevitably there will be comments coming my way.

I bought the Aurora R11 during the Black Friday sales in Canada at a very very attractive price.

RTX3080
i7 10700K 
32 GB 2933 Ram
500GB M.2 with 1TB HDD secondary drives

First things first - the price was very reasonable with $1000 off with Honey coupons on top of the sale. And better yet, it was in stock.

My daily driver has been the six month old Lenovo Legion 5i - With i7 10750H, GTX 1660ti. 

On most games in my Steam library that I play there was a noticeable performance increase - but the ONE GAME I main, virtually went completely unchanged.

Rust...

My laptop is a 300nit 144hz panel - so I purchased the ASUS TUF 27" curved 144HZ panel (I'm not trying to push 4k anytime soon) and yet my laptop plays rust near max settings (5 of 6) with just about everything pinned - GIBS off, motion blur, ambient occlusion and vignette turned off.

With the Desktop - it Nvidia presets it to the exact same specs, and the framerates are negligibly better. What I don't get - is that I'm unable to hit that 144fps mark I'm aiming for, and yet my brothers 2080ti hits 200fps without issue.

If I'm lucky I hit 120fps on the same preset as my 1660ti and hit roughly the same frames.

What gives?

[Falkentyne]

Vsync off? 

Check the GPU Usage% using MSI Afterburner (add it to the OSD monitoring in the settings), or add it through RTSS "plugin" in HWinfo64.  Are you getting 100% GPU usage?

[Moinkyz]

8 minutes ago, Falkentyne said:

Vsync off? 

Check the GPU Usage% using MSI Afterburner (add it to the OSD monitoring in the settings), or add it through RTSS "plugin" in HWinfo64.  Are you getting 100% GPU usage?

Vsync is off.

Rust is a strange title as it's older, Unity based and heavily dependent on CPU. That said, the 10750H (mobile) and 10700K shouldn't be anywhere near each other at all in capability. 

GPU is definitely trying to pick up the slack where it can - but I'll have to test these tomorrow when I'm back home.

Using the Alienwares oc software, I saw nothing erroneous or glaring in my face but the GPU fans sure spool up hard with Rust.

CP2077 however, runs fantastic, and a number of other titles in my library did get a noticeable bump. But I just cant crack why the performance isn't even hitting 144 fps here.

Lowering the settings actually reduces the FPS even more as again, it's a CPU dependent gfx. 

Bad silicone lottery for the CPU?

[Falkentyne]

4 minutes ago, Moinkyz said:

Vsync is off.

Rust is a strange title as it's older, Unity based and heavily dependent on CPU. That said, the 10750H (mobile) and 10700K shouldn't be anywhere near each other at all in capability. 

GPU is definitely trying to pick up the slack where it can - but I'll have to test these tomorrow when I'm back home.

Using the Alienwares oc software, I saw nothing erroneous or glaring in my face but the GPU fans sure spool up hard with Rust.

CP2077 however, runs fantastic, and a number of other titles in my library did get a noticeable bump. But I just cant crack why the performance isn't even hitting 144 fps here.

Lowering the settings actually reduces the FPS even more as again, it's a CPU dependent gfx. 

Bad silicone lottery for the CPU?

 

Use MSI Afterburner, press Control F and bring up the v/f curve

 

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/rtss-6-7-0-beta-1.412822/page-138#post-5855714

 

Then go to the 1.062-1.081v voltage point and press "L" on one of them, then press Apply.

Then run Rust again.

[Moinkyz]

6 minutes ago, Falkentyne said:

 

Use MSI Afterburner, press Control F and bring up the v/f curve

 

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/rtss-6-7-0-beta-1.412822/page-138#post-5855714

 

Then go to the 1.062-1.081v voltage point and press "L" on one of them, then press Apply.

Then run Rust again.

Thanks!

I'll test this in the AM at home

[Moinkyz]

12 hours ago, Falkentyne said:

 

Use MSI Afterburner, press Control F and bring up the v/f curve

 

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/rtss-6-7-0-beta-1.412822/page-138#post-5855714

 

Then go to the 1.062-1.081v voltage point and press "L" on one of them, then press Apply.

Then run Rust again.

Pardon the hodgepodge of clipped screenshots.

I'm getting 99 FPS, on "optimal" settings, all drivers updated and the afterburner steps applied.

In 1080p on an RTX3080


 

[Moinkyz]

No idea why it hyperlinked to nothing. But yeah, I'm just stumped as to why my GTX1660ti is on par in performance on this game, when any other title I've tested on this card has performed within expectations in gains.