1070 FPS Dip?

[Vonanx]

Hello,

 

I recently bought myself I GTX 1070, installed it into my PC, and began gaming.  The 1070 had a surprsingly high FPS when playing ANY game on Ultra.  Most games would easily make it over 100 FPS, until I noticed an issue.  Whenever the game needed to render something new, my card would dip to an extremely low FPS.  Subnautica, a game I like to play for example, would normally run an easy 120+ FPS..  When loading a new section of the map however, it would dip well below 30.  Now, at first I thought this was just a natural happening, as it was an early access game that wasn't optimized.  To test, I slapped in my old GTX 745.  Of course, the max FPS on the 745 was far lower than the max I had gotten on the 1070, but I did notice something shocking.  When rendering a new area, the 745 would only dip slightly below its normal FPS.  It seems as if my 1070 cant render something without a major dip in FPS.  

 

Im totally stumped about this.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks!

[Light-Yagami]

From what you're telling me, your CPU bottlenecks the GPU. It's partly the game but I believe mostly CPU. What are you runing? What CPU and what monitor resoluion?

[Vonanx]

Currently, I am running an i7 4770k (3.4 GHz)

one 1080p monitor 

[Moress]

6 minutes ago, Light-Yagami said:

From what you're telling me, your CPU bottlenecks the GPU. It's partly the game but I believe mostly CPU. What are you runing? What CPU and what monitor resoluion?

Going off this. What youre likely seeing is a cpu bottleneck. In both instances youre dropping down to ~30fps, but its a lot more noticeable from 120+ to 30 than it is from 40 to 30.

Do you have the cooling to overclock that I7? Cause running it on stock is probably whats causing the dips

[Vonanx]

Interesting.  I did worry about this happening, but from multiple sources heard my current CPU could handle a 1070 fine?  Is there any other CPU you would recommend for being able to handle a 1070?

[Light-Yagami]

1 minute ago, Vonanx said:

Currently, I am running an i7 4770k (3.4 GHz)

one 1080p monitor 

gtx 1070 will bottleneck most CPUs on 1080p. Yours is more than enough to deal with this beast, BUT. You need to overclock it to 4.4-4.5 ghz. 

 

You probably run some slow ass RAM as well. Because it's common for slow RAM to cause relly low dips in FPS, because it can't keep up. I'm talking 1600mhz or sth..

 

If you overclock your cpu to like 4.5ghz and have a RAM that's like 2400mhz+ and still have these issues, then Idk what's wrong

[Vonanx]

Ahhhhh I had a feeling it was the RAM..  Will look into overclocking the CPU as well.  Thanks for the help!

[Light-Yagami]

1 minute ago, Vonanx said:

Ahhhhh I had a feeling it was the RAM..  Will look into overclocking the CPU as well.  Thanks for the help!

Here, don't get all frustrated. First, listen to this music, it will give you motivation: 

If you don't know how to OC your cpu, here's how. 

1. Go to bios. Set it into the XMB profile so your CPU OC doesn't affect the RAM speeds.

2. Set the core ratio to sync all cores and set a manual multiplier, which will be (in your case) 45.

3. Set the core voltage to manual and go for something like 1.350v. Run the system and stress test it to see if stable. If it is, lower the vcore in small intervals (0.010) to the point where it crashes under heavy load. Then put it one vcore interval (0.010) above that and do extensive testing to see if stable.

 

Here's a video of Linus covering the topic with the 6700k : 

Here's a video of JayzTwoCents OCing the 4770k: 

I hope you get the idea from these vids. If you have any questions, do ask. As for the RAM, check fow high frequencies you can put inside your MB. You don't want RAM that won't work with it because the frequency is too high, you get the point. 

[Vonanx]

Will do, thanks!