Graphics Card Deterioration

[Tr1oN]

Hello,

I recently bought an MSI 1060 6GB edition graphics card and on the first day I ran the heaven benchmark. My pc scored a FPS of 94.2 and 2373 on ultra settings with extreme tessellation, running at 1920 x 1080. However, the next day I ran the same benchmark again and only got a score of 1863 and an FPS of 64.2. I do not know why there was a sudden drop in performance; if anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Many thanks

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, Tr1oN said:

Hello,

I recently bought an MSI 1060 6GB edition graphics card and on the first day I ran the heaven benchmark. My pc scored a FPS of 94.2 and 2373 on ultra settings with extreme tessellation, running at 1920 x 1080. However, the next day I ran the same benchmark again and only got a score of 1863 and an FPS of 64.2. I do not know why there was a sudden drop in performance; if anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Many thanks

Huh. Didn't think they'd start gimping the new line so quickly. /s

Did you download any new driver updates or such?

[Tr1oN]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Huh. Didn't think they'd start gimping the new line so quickly. /s

Did you download any new driver updates or such?

Yes I downloaded all of the new drivers and still I have found no difference however, I had not downloaded any new ones from the last time I ran the benchmark

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Tr1oN said:

Yes I downloaded all of the new drivers and still I have found no difference

Did you DDU?

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Did you DDU?

Sorry if this sounds noobie, but what is DDU?

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Tr1oN said:

Sorry if this sounds noobie, but what is DDU?

Essentially when you uninstall the old drivers before updating/installing the new ones.

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Starelementpoke said:

Essentially when you uninstall the old drivers before updating/installing the new ones.

Oh ok, no I didn't, that may be why this has happened then

[Godlygamer23]

15 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Essentially when you uninstall the old drivers before updating/installing the new ones.

DDU is a program that is used to remove any traces of the drivers. DDU itself is not just uninstalling the currently installed drivers. 

[Godlygamer23]

15 minutes ago, Tr1oN said:

Oh ok, no I didn't, that may be why this has happened then

In my experience, updating your graphics drivers by installing over the previous revision should not be causing any problems. What are your GPU temperatures and clock speeds? What is your CPU temperature?

Edited January 8, 2017 by Godlygamer23

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

In my experience, updating your graphics drivers by installing over the previous revision should not be causing any problems. What are your GPU temperatures and clock speeds? What is your CPU temperature?

My GPU temps never exceed 60 degrees Celsius and CPU, not above 45. The clock speed on my GPU is roughly 2GHZ at the moment as I have not yet overclocked it

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Tr1oN said:

My GPU temps never exceed 60 degrees Celsius and CPU, not above 45. The clock speed on my GPU is roughly 2GHZ at the moment as I have not yet overclocked it

Is that a live clock speed? Did you monitor clock speeds while running the benchmark?

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Is that a live clock speed? Did you monitor clock speeds while running the benchmark?

I did not monitor it during the benchmark, I had a look afterwards in MSI afterburner to see how it fared.

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Tr1oN said:

I did not monitor it during the benchmark, I had a look afterwards in MSI afterburner to see how it fared.

Was this during both times you ran the benchmarks? 

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

Was this during both times you ran the benchmarks? 

The first time I did not have MSI afterburner running, however I ran the benchmark again today without it running and had the same low results

[Godlygamer23]

3 minutes ago, Tr1oN said:

The first time I did not have MSI afterburner running, however I ran the benchmark again today without it running and had the same low results

My first thought is the clock speeds somehow lowered. Did you play any video games with your PC yet?

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

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You seem to have a lo of experience at this, I would like to ask you: If I have a system running a GTX 560 which drivers were installed by Geforce experience and then I upgrade to a GTX 980, can I just plug it in and run geforce experience again and be done with it or you recommend that I should use this DDU and clean everything up before running the geforce experience?

[Godlygamer23]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

You seem to have a lo of experience at this, I would like to ask you: If I have a system running a GTX 560 which drivers were installed by Geforce experience and then I upgrade to a GTX 980, can I just plug it in and run geforce experience again and be done with it or you recommend that I should use this DDU and clean everything up before running the geforce experience?

I recommend that the other drivers be removed first with DDU. This will help to prevent any potential problems. But to be fair, I have not experimented with that, but I just might with my test PC. I'm not sure a hardware switch will trigger anything from GE since the drivers are already installed, unless there are newer drivers available at the time of upgrading. 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I recommend that the other drivers be removed first with DDU. This will help to prevent any potential problems. But to be fair, I have not experimented with that, but I just might with my test PC. I'm not sure a hardware switch will trigger anything from GE since the drivers are already installed, unless there are newer drivers available at the time of upgrading. 

I see, I wish this whole driver deal could be more automated by now, I will take the DDU approach, the best way around it is what, remove the old GPU, connect display through onboard, let the program do its thing, reboot, install the new GPU start up still on onboard and let the geforce experience do its deal, reboot and finally connect display to the new GPU, or am I missing anything?

[Godlygamer23]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I see, I wish this whole driver deal could be more automated by now, I will take the DDU approach, the best way around it is what, remove the old GPU, connect display through onboard, let the program do its thing, reboot, install the new GPU start up still on onboard and let the geforce experience do its deal, reboot and finally connect display to the new GPU, or am I missing anything?

You should be able to connect the display to the new video card to remove the current drivers. It'll likely rely on basic drivers if the current drivers do not work(I don't think they will). From there, you can remove the older drivers - the program will ask you to boot into Safe Mode anyway to ensure they're completely removed. 

[Tr1oN]

22 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

My first thought is the clock speeds somehow lowered. Did you play any video games with your PC yet?

Ahh ok, I have played quite a bit of csgo and overwatch with my PC so far, however I havent really played any intense games.

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Tr1oN said:

Ahh ok, I have played quite a bit of csgo and overwatch with my PC so far, however I havent really played any intense games.

How do you normally play those games? With or without V-Sync? 

[Tr1oN]

24 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

My first thought is the clock speeds somehow lowered. Did you play any video games with your PC yet?

However, I did leave my PC running Folding at home the night after I did the first bechmark

[Tr1oN]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

How do you normally play those games? With or without V-Sync? 

I usually play the games without v-sync

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Tr1oN said:

However, I did leave my PC running Folding at home the night after I did the first bechmark

I don't know if I would associate the Folding@home with the drop in performance with Unigine Heaven. One night of Folding@home shouldn't cause any noticeable deterioration in the video card hardware, including the GPU itself. 

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Tr1oN said:

I usually play the games without v-sync

Do you monitor your frame rate when playing video games?