980 problems.

[Fishsticks]

So my friend recently got a GTX980 gaming from MSI.

And he gave me his old GTX770 gaming.

then one day we were hanging out in GW2, when he got some framerate problems(sub 60fps). Which is weird considering that he has DSR and MFAA all turned off and running 1080p.

What was weirder is that i got HIGHER framerates on his old 770 running a ultrawide 1080p display.

So checking afterburner gave no hints as to why that was happening(we were both running the cards at stock, and he had higher clock speeds)

So i was curious as to why this is happening and if it warrants a RMA of the card.

 

The rest of his system is a Predator G5 with a i7-2700k(not OCed), 16 GB RAM, and a 2TB WD red.

I have a MSI Z87-G45 gaming with a i5-4670 8GB RAM and a 500gb WD blue

 

And the rest of his system was cleaned(with compressed air), and put into a SM storm trooper since the predator case did not have good airflow, when we installed the 980.

[Manny Calavera]

Have you uninstalled previous drivers?

[Fishsticks]

Have you uninstalled previous drivers?

Yep

[Ganz]

Guild Wars 2 is heavily (and I mean heavily) cpu bound.  You i5 has higher core performance than his i7 so naturally you are going to see some higher frame rates.  Guild Wars 2 needs a potato GPU to run properly but even the strongest CPUs get brought to their knees at world bosses and in large scale WvW fights.  If you want to see the biggest jump in framerates mess with the Model Quantity Limit (or something like that) in the graphics settings.

[Fishsticks]

Guild Wars 2 is heavily (and I mean heavily) cpu bound.  You i5 has higher core performance than his i7 so naturally you are going to see some higher frame rates.  Guild Wars 2 needs a potato GPU to run properly but even the strongest CPUs get tested at world bosses and in large scale WvW fights.

We were just staring at the hills in Plains of ashes with nothing much going on.

[Ganz]

We were just staring at the hills in Plains of ashes with nothing much going on.

Doesn't change the fact that GW2 is still CPU bound, ambient and mobs still are affected by model limit.

[Fishsticks]

Doesn't change the fact that GW2 is still CPU bound, ambient and mobs still are affected by model limit.

True

[Fishsticks]

Oh yeah i forgot to add his CPU usage was pretty low across all threads for reasons(like 30-60%)

[Speed6408]

980 wow... that's a lot of problems for one gpu