GPU might be underperforming

[Erundil]

Hi everyone, lately i've switced from a 4K 60hz monitor to a 2k 165hz one and i've noticed that the fps i get in games barely changed at all, in fact i've started to think that my GPU might be underperforming (or the other option is the CPU or something else bottlenecking it), so i looked up on google people's scores on Unigine heaven benchmark and i think mines are pretty low compared to those i've found, mines are in the range of 2700 points, and other people even get to the 3k points, granted i don't know if they're overclocked i wanted to know if there's a way to test if a particular piece is underperforming, or if something is causing some bottleneck (i'm pretty sure that my 4770K at 4.0Ghz is a small bottleneck), i've also been getting higher temperatures than usual playing Divinity Original Sin 2, like my CPU gets to almost 70C while my GPU runs lower at like 65C

So yeah idk, i think i'm gonna get a new CPU and MB if Intel decides to drop something interesting, but i don't know if my GPU is acting up as well

 

GPU is a GTX1080 Strix, the CPU is water cooled by one of those double radiator all in one from corsair, i dont remember the name, PSU is 750Watt

[Dragonheart]

Get a program like Precision XOC or MSI afterburner to check your usages. 

[Jurrunio]

Probably time to replace the thermal paste and overclock higher.

[AlTech]

23 minutes ago, Erundil said:

Hi everyone, lately i've switced from a 4K 60hz monitor to a 2k 165hz one and i've noticed that the fps i get in games barely changed at all, in fact i've started to think that my GPU might be underperforming (or the other option is the CPU or something else bottlenecking it), so i looked up on google people's scores on Unigine heaven benchmark and i think mines are pretty low compared to those i've found, mines are in the range of 2700 points, and other people even get to the 3k points, granted i don't know if they're overclocked i wanted to know if there's a way to test if a particular piece is underperforming, or if something is causing some bottleneck (i'm pretty sure that my 4770K at 4.0Ghz is a small bottleneck), i've also been getting higher temperatures than usual playing Divinity Original Sin 2, like my CPU gets to almost 70C while my GPU runs lower at like 65C

So yeah idk, i think i'm gonna get a new CPU and MB if Intel decides to drop something interesting, but i don't know if my GPU is acting up as well

 

GPU is a GTX1080 Strix, the CPU is water cooled by one of those double radiator all in one from corsair, i dont remember the name, PSU is 750Watt

2700 and 3000 are almost within margin of error. They're practically no difference.

[Erundil]

2 minutes ago, Dragonheart said:

Get a program like Precision XOC or MSI afterburner to check your usages. 

i have it, what should i look for exactly? my gpu when i play Divinity reaches something like 70/75% usage

[Erundil]

3 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

2700 and 3000 are almost within margin of error. They're practically no difference.

mhm, are you sure? they get like 20+ average fps more than me though, that's not that small of a difference

[MrTiC]

25 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Probably time to replace the thermal paste and overclock higher.

4770k's are shit for overclocking ... ive spent 3 weeks to get mine to 4.2 Ghz back in the day

[Erundil]

1 minute ago, MrTiC said:

4770k's are shit for overclocking ... ive spent 3 weeks to get mine to 4.2 Ghz back in the day

im not that much into overclocking, but i did it once and i got it to 4,5Ghz stable, then reverted it to 4.0 because i didn't really need the OC, i mgiht try to bring it up again to squeeze the last bit of juice it has i guess

[MrTiC]

Just now, Erundil said:

im not that much into overclocking, but i did it once and i got it to 4,5Ghz stable, then reverted it to 4.0 because i didn't really need the OC, i mgiht try to bring it up again to squeeze the last bit of juice it has i guess

then you got lucky, i had a 3770k at 5Ghz before that, but motherboard died and couldnt get a new z77 board that could hit that OC

[Erundil]

Just now, MrTiC said:

then you got lucky, i had a 3770k at 5Ghz before that, but motherboard died and couldnt get a new z77 board that could hit that OC

i guess i did, but as i said temperatures have been pretty high lately and idk what caused it, this week i'll be cleaning up fans and replacing the thermal paste, hopefully i'll get lower temps, idk if that explains the lower fps that it seems i've been getting compared to other 1080s

[Erundil]

This is one of the runs i've done, idk if running it on 1080p on a 1440p monitor can explain a 20fps difference between me and this other guy with a 3770K, or if maybe his stuff is OCd and it doesn't show

[GitGud]

CPU bottleneck ? Maybe ?

[DocSwag]

1 hour ago, Erundil said:

This is one of the runs i've done, idk if running it on 1080p on a 1440p monitor can explain a 20fps difference between me and this other guy with a 3770K, or if maybe his stuff is OCd and it doesn't show

Could you try downloading MSI afterburner and take some logs with it while running heaven(you can enable logging in the afterburner settings) and then send them to us? That would be helpful, thanks.

[Erundil]

19 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Could you try downloading MSI afterburner and take some logs with it while running heaven(you can enable logging in the afterburner settings) and then send them to us? That would be helpful, thanks.

aright i did it, here's the file, this time the benchmark went better though which is weird, because i tried to benchmark while overclocking the gpu but it never really add many more fps, so i reverted it back and left only the power target at 120% with 93C as target temperature, and i got like 115 average fps and 2,8k points, anyways here's the fileHardwareMonitoring.hml

[cowpker4life]

you say your running your cpu at 4ghz yet heaven showed as 3.5ghz an you get a cpuz maybe? also what are your clocks on the 1080 and temps if you are running 1500-1600 compared to 1800-1900 that will cause it or if your gpu is throttling somehow.

[Erundil]

idk why but the benchmark only shows the stock speed of the CPU, but it's running at 4.0Ghz, my gpu is running at like 1920

[Jumper118]

4ghz is slow af. What voltage are you running it at.?

[Erundil]

7 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

4ghz is slow af. What voltage are you running it at.?

1.140 VCore, as i said i can get it to 4,5/4,6 but temps are in the high when i play already with 4,0, i need to order some new paste and i'll try changing it these days

[Jumper118]

Just now, Erundil said:

1.140 VCore, as i said i can get it to 4,5/4,6 but temps are in the high when i play already with 4,0, i need to order some new paste and i'll try changing it these days

Buy a vice or a delid tool and some nail Polish and liquid metal. Then run 4.5ghz. Then your 1080 will stop being a 1060 and become a 1070ti.

[pallfy]

I had a under performing 1060, after I installed gpu-z I saw it was running at pcie-x1 instead of x16, I simply reseated the card and problem solved, card performance way up.