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GTX 1070 Performance Issues

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Go to solution Solved by Mira Yurizaki,

Let's figure out what's going on with the GPU first. Grab GPU-z and launch it. On the second tab ("Sensors"), check the "Log to file" box and run your game. After you've played enough, uncheck that box and open up the file. If you have Microsoft Excel or similar, you can change the extension to .csv and it'll load up just fine.

 

In any case, what you want to look at is the core clock, temperature, and load. Here's what I think is going on based on those three things.

  • If the core clock goes down when the temperature goes up and stays up (at around 80C-85C), the GPU is thermal throttling.
  • If the temperature remains at 80C-85C or less and the GPU core clock is above 1506MHz and the GPU load is less than 100%, it's likely the driver doesn't think the workload is heavy enough for the GPU and is doing some basic power saving measures (you can also confirm this via the electrical stats)
  • If the temperature is below 80C, the core clock is hovering less than whatever boost clock it has, and the GPU load is less than 100%, then it's definitely saving power because the drivers don't think the workload is heavy enough.
  • You can check the VDDC out (I think that's it) and if it's flat lining at about 13A and the clocks start dropping, the GPU is preventing itself from using more power.

Although: If you don't have a 144Hz monitor, I wouldn't worry about this.

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have a prebuilt asus computer that came with a gtx 970. It is the G10AJ. It has a 4790, 16gb of ram, I put a 500gb ssd in, 600w power supply, and now replaced the graphics card with a 1070. Now I am getting the same or worse performance with the new card. My 970 overclocked could get 120 fps on bf4. With the same settings my 1070 gets just around 110.

The same situation is repeated in other games. I used DDU to uninstall the drivers and installed the 1070 fresh. Short of a new windows install I dont know what to do.

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25 minutes ago, cried22 said:

have a prebuilt asus computer that came with a gtx 970. It is the G10AJ. It has a 4790, 16gb of ram, I put a 500gb ssd in, 600w power supply, and now replaced the graphics card with a 1070. Now I am getting the same or worse performance with the new card. My 970 overclocked could get 120 fps on bf4. With the same settings my 1070 gets just around 110.

The same situation is repeated in other games. I used DDU to uninstall the drivers and installed the 1070 fresh. Short of a new windows install I dont know what to do.

Check your temps. If its not thermalthrottling then i have no clue. Is it FE or what brand is it ? Have u plugged in all 8 pin connectors properly ?

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Let's figure out what's going on with the GPU first. Grab GPU-z and launch it. On the second tab ("Sensors"), check the "Log to file" box and run your game. After you've played enough, uncheck that box and open up the file. If you have Microsoft Excel or similar, you can change the extension to .csv and it'll load up just fine.

 

In any case, what you want to look at is the core clock, temperature, and load. Here's what I think is going on based on those three things.

  • If the core clock goes down when the temperature goes up and stays up (at around 80C-85C), the GPU is thermal throttling.
  • If the temperature remains at 80C-85C or less and the GPU core clock is above 1506MHz and the GPU load is less than 100%, it's likely the driver doesn't think the workload is heavy enough for the GPU and is doing some basic power saving measures (you can also confirm this via the electrical stats)
  • If the temperature is below 80C, the core clock is hovering less than whatever boost clock it has, and the GPU load is less than 100%, then it's definitely saving power because the drivers don't think the workload is heavy enough.
  • You can check the VDDC out (I think that's it) and if it's flat lining at about 13A and the clocks start dropping, the GPU is preventing itself from using more power.

Although: If you don't have a 144Hz monitor, I wouldn't worry about this.

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Thank you guys for your help. It is not thermal throttling because I have a custom fan curve. It ended up being that only 4 of my 16 gb of ram was being accessed. I fixed that and it works great now. Than you. 

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Wow....great you fixed it because that sounded weird. Memory issues can fix a lot of people's issues.

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