Game Benchmarks vs Software Benchmarks

[Dcourtade]

I just switched from a Asus GTX 970 to the Zotac 1070 Amp Extreme and I gave noticed something interesting. I ran Furman on it for about 20 minutes and the GPU usage hit 100, the power usage hits 100, and the temps hot 70c. I ran a light overclock of 1950 and it all ran as expected. However, when I ran the GTA V benchmark and also played the game for about two hours the results were a different story. I'm running at 4k and everything maxed minus MSAA and my GPU for egged at 100 but my power was only running at 60% and temps sat at 60c.

Is this result because GTA V isn't an intensive game for benchmarking vs benchmarking software or am I  missing something all together? Thoughts? 

[bgibbz]

GtaV is a very CPU bound title, it may just be that your CPU is limiting your performance. 

[typographie]

4 minutes ago, Dcourtade said:

Is this result because GTA V isn't an intensive game for benchmarking vs benchmarking software or am I  missing something all together? Thoughts? 

Well, it means GTA V is less intensive than Furmark, which is not surprising at all. Furmark is a stress test, its purpose is to completely max out every function on your GPU at once in order to expose a problem if one exists. A real game doesn't do that, at least not at all times. A game only uses what it needs from moment to moment.

[Phentos]

Furmark is an exceptionally brutal program to subject your GPU to.

 

Here is an analogy. You know volcanologists right?

 

GTA V and practically all other games would be like standing a couple of meters from a little lava flow. Yea, you'll feel a good amount of heat from it, but not much.

 

Furmark is like sticking your head directly into view of a broiling lava lake right in front of you. If you watch volcanologists doing this, you'll see they have to wear a heat reflective suit. There are some fascinating videos of this stuff on Youtube.

[Guest]

1. Furmark is not a benchmarking software

2. GTA V is not a demanding game in every aspect. Try Crysis 3,  ROTR, Deus Ex and TW3 instead

[SaladFingers]

Furmark is just hardcore like that. I don't think any game will stress your card as much. Even if you see 100% usage, that doesn't make it the same kind of usage. You can notice that with CPU stress tests as well, the temps will differ from test to test even if the CPU usage stayed at 100% at all times.

[Vellinious]

Furmark is a heat machine.....there's absolutely 0 reason to use it.  It puts unimaginable stress on the hardware for no good reason at all.

[ivan134]

FurMark is unrealistic in guaging real world scenarios. You are never going to play a game that puts that much stress on your GPU.

[Dcourtade]

Some interesting things have happened and been learned in this weekend with the 1070. To clarify,  I was working with a Zotac tech because I was worried about a power issue hence the furnark testing. I have discussed versed after testing in Doom, GTA V, Crisis 3, Valley, Heaven, and Shadows of Mordor that at stock that card pretty much runs great. However I have pegged my problem to over clocking. Everything I apply a +100MHz overclock to the card it crashes and becomes unstable. Will be testing this more!