Neither cards max out?

[A Silver]

I have two 1080's running in SLI and when bench marking both cards averaged at around 60-68% usage and never maxed out. Is this normal or do i need to do something?

[The Sloth]

full spec? sounds like a cpu bottleneck. 

[ARikozuM]

Full specs.

What games have you tried?

What resolution and frame-rate?

Et cetera.

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, A Silver said:

I have two 1080's running in SLI and when bench marking both cards averaged at around 60-68% usage and never maxed out. Is this normal or do i need to do something?

What games are you playing? What settings?

 

Also I noticed you're running a 1080p monitor, which is rather easy for a GTX 1080 to reach 100+ FPS in most titles.

[Majestic]

Wait, you're running SLI 1080 with an overclocked i7 on a 550W power supply? That's gotta be borderline, man.

[AntonChigurh]

19 hours ago, Majestic said:

Wait, you're running SLI 1080 with an overclocked i7 on a 550W power supply? That's gotta be borderline, man.

Holy crap how has his build not exploded

 

Turn up res as much as possible, crank all the graphics settings to max. If all else fails, disable SLI except for on games with good scaling.

[Dackzy]

For the love of god throw that crappy PSU out of the window and go out and buy something like an RM850x. Dear god, you do know they recommend a 500w PSU for a single 1080?

[A Silver]

19 hours ago, Majestic said:

Wait, you're running SLI 1080 with an overclocked i7 on a 550W power supply? That's gotta be borderline, man.

I forgot to update my signature properly. I now have a 850w PSU

19 hours ago, Dackzy said:

For the love of god throw that crappy PSU out of the window and go out and buy something like an RM850x. Dear god, you do know they recommend a 500w PSU for a single 1080?

 

19 hours ago, N1ghtshade said:

Holy crap how has his build not exploded

 

19 hours ago, Majestic said:

Wait, you're running SLI 1080 with an overclocked i7 on a 550W power supply? That's gotta be borderline, man.

I forgot to update my sig. I have an 850w psu

19 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

full spec? sounds like a cpu bottleneck. 

 

19 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Full specs.

What games have you tried?

What resolution and frame-rate?

Et cetera.

Look at my signature for specs. I was running GTA 5 benchmark at 4k on my 1080p 144hz monitor and i did timespy and some other 3d mark benchmarks

[Frankenburger]

~65% usage on both GPUs typically means SLI isn't scaling. GTA V is known to have some pretty good SLI scaling, so it sounds like a driver issue to me. Try doing a clean install of your drivers.

[A Silver]

16 hours ago, Frankenburger said:

~65% usage on both GPUs typically means SLI isn't scaling. GTA V is known to have some pretty good SLI scaling, so it sounds like a driver issue to me. Try doing a clean install of your drivers.

When playing GTA normally it usualy gets to 65%-87+ Ill try a clean install of the drivers anyway

[Frankenburger]

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

When playing GTA normally it usualy gets to 65%-87+ Ill try a clean install of the drivers anyway

If you're seeing 87% and higher, then SLI should be scaling.

 

Do you get lower FPS if you disable SLI?

 

If so, then you're not running GTA V at high enough settings to fully benefit from SLI.

[A Silver]

4 minutes ago, Frankenburger said:

If you're seeing 87% and higher, then SLI should be scaling.

 

Do you get lower FPS if you disable SLI?

 

If so, then you're not running GTA V at high enough settings to fully benefit from SLI.

I maxed out all settings (apart from grass and AA) and set the resolution to 4k and i seem to be getting better fps then i would with a single card at those settings so i think it is scaling fine now.

[Frankenburger]

1 minute ago, A Silver said:

I maxed out all settings (apart from grass and AA) and set the resolution to 4k and i seem to be getting better fps then i would with a single card at those settings so i think it is scaling fine now.

Awesomeness. Glad to hear it!

[A Silver]

Just now, Frankenburger said:

Awesomeness. Glad to hear it!

Thanks for helping. I am currently reinstalling my drivers anyway because i can.

[Frankenburger]

2 minutes ago, A Silver said:

Thanks for helping. I am currently reinstalling my drivers anyway because i can.

You're welcome

 

in regards to GTA V and drivers, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to force 16xAF through your drivers for GTA V. GTA V's in game AF solution is kinda meh, and the difference between in game AF and driver forced AF is quite noticeable.