GTX 970 not running at full capacity in lower end games, resulting in lower performance than my GTX 760.

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About a month ago I picked up a GTX 970 from a local computer store and stuck it in my rig, hoping to get some nice performance increases over my current GTX 760. I ran into this issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/35wyj6/forcing_a_gtx_970_to_run_at_full_capacity_on_less/

Unfortunately this made the card worthless to me; slower than my 760. So I returned it. It's been a bit and I haven't been following the card much, but I figured since I'd take another look. Does anyone have any more info now about the issue, or whether it's been fixed?

Thanks!

[Trik'Stari]

I've never experienced that issue. Mine runs like a champ with games like GTA V, Battlefield 4, ESO, Metro LL and 2033 Redux etc.

 

Then again, I don't play CS:GO, Dota, or LoL I wouldn't imagine you would hit 99% usage on a 970 in those games because they aren't really all that graphically demanding (to my knowledge)

[Tim Drake]

CPU?

[AdamH96]

Never had that issue.. were you running v-sync?

[SuperPug]

Lemme guess, you´re running an FX CPU?

[adc]

Never had that issue.. were you running v-sync?

 

Certainly not!

 

CPU?

 

http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/2YW3vK

 

Here's a full pc part picker list; sorry I forgot to include it. As I said in the link in my first post, though, none of my CPU cores reach above 50%~, so I'm pretty sure it isn't a throttling issue (especially since the GPU goes to 100% usage at when downscaling from 4k).

[YOLOGUY]

The GPU usage on Nvidia cards will be locked lower when you are already getting very FPS, try a game like BF4 and you should see a high gpu usage (depending CPU too)

[CurlyCucumber]

I run lower end games all the time and my framerates in the 200-300s, lol.

I hope you get it fixed!

[adc]

Lemme guess, you´re running an FX CPU?

Yes, but it doesn't get anywhere near the cap on any of my cores, so unless Nvidia is intentionally crippling performance on AMD CPUs...

 

The GPU usage on Nvidia cards will be locked lower when you are already getting very FPS, try a game like BF4 and you should see a high gpu usage (depending CPU too)

30% usage when I'm getting less than 60 FPS seems a little bit absurd for a feature like this.

[theereal]

About a month ago I picked up a GTX 970 from a local computer store and stuck it in my rig, hoping to get some nice performance increases over my current GTX 760. I ran into this issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/35wyj6/forcing_a_gtx_970_to_run_at_full_capacity_on_less/

Unfortunately this made the card worthless to me; slower than my 760. So I returned it. It's been a bit and I haven't been following the card much, but I figured since I'd take another look. Does anyone have any more info now about the issue, or whether it's been fixed?

Thanks!

I switched from a 760 OEM to a EVGA 970, no problemos here...

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I switched from a 760 OEM to a EVGA 970, no problemos here...

I'm so glad.

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Bump.

[Grubite]

I'm suprised it slowed down slower than  the 760, but I will say Source Engine games do not utilize the GPU to it's full capability. On my GTX 780Ti, Garry's Mod only Utliizies 40-50% of my GPU which is why when I play DarkRP on a populated server, my $700 2013 Graphics Card drops to sometimes 30-40fps on a game running with Assets from 2004.