Is my 1080 TI Defective?

[Shadymer85]

Hey everybody,

 

I just recently built a machine with an EVGA 1080 TI Hybrid card and I'm not getting the same numbers I'm seeing others get online during game benchmarks. For instance, in Battlefield 4, I am getting only 80-100 FPS on ULTRA with dips as low as 54 FPS @1080p all the while I'm seeing guys running an average of 150 +FPS online with the same settings. Destiny 2 is also showing about 30 FPS less than what I'm seeing others get. I realize these numbers aren't atrocious, but I want to make sure I got what I payed for. I have the latest Nvidia drivers and Win 10 Pro is up to date. Any advice on what I might be missing would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

My setup:

 

Processor: 7700k

Motherboard: Asus Prime Z270 A

RAM: 16 GB G Skill Ripjaws V Series

Video Card: EVGA 1080 TI Hybrid 

OS: Win 10 Pro

 

 

[Damascus]

Did you DDU and is that processor overclocked

[Shadymer85]

Yes I used DDU and re-installed the newest driver. I have not touched the clock speeds on the card.

[Ginger_]

29 minutes ago, Shadymer85 said:

Yes I used DDU and re-installed the newest driver. I have not touched the clock speeds on the card.

CPU clocks, at 1080p especially the CPU becomes the bottleneck. The higher the resolution you move up the more the burden gets put on the GPU

[Shadymer85]

I've read that before. The part that confuses me is that

1. The cpu is pretty decent 

2. The cpu is not even close to being fully utilized. I figured if the cpu were taking over it would at least be at 100% if that were the case

 

 

Also if that were the case, how am I seeing other guys with 1080p performance much higher than mine with similar and sometimes even lesser specs?

[Maxxtraxx]

The best thing you can do is check utilization numbers on both the processor and the graphics card. That being percentage of utilization, clock speeds, memory usage, core usage and watching for any spikes in utilization. It's these numbers that will tell you wether your card is performing normally.

 

It could very well be that your graphics card is simply underutilized because it's being bottlenecked by the 7700 k.

 

Use some programs like afterburner and Intel XTU and hardware monitor while you're using the programs are having issues with then get back to us with some numbers.

[Shadymer85]

2 minutes ago, Maxxtraxx said:

The best thing you can do is check utilization numbers on both the processor and the graphics card. That being percentage of utilization, clock speeds, memory usage, core usage and watching for any spikes in utilization. It's these numbers that will tell you wether your card is performing normally.

 

It could very well be that your graphics card is simply underutilized because it's being bottlenecked by the 7700 k.

 

Use some programs like afterburner and Intel XTU and hardware monitor while you're using the programs are having issues with then get back to us with some numbers.

Ok will do. Thank you guys.

[Mick Naughty]

Have you ran a bench mark to ensure the card is being fully utilized? Any other games give you an issue?

 

Just hopped on real quick on my 1440p rig, single 1080 on ultra gets mid to 140-170 average.

[Shadymer85]

1 hour ago, Mick Naughty said:

Have you ran a bench mark to ensure the card is being fully utilized? Any other games give you an issue?

 

Just hopped on real quick on my 1440p rig, single 1080 on ultra gets mid to 140-170 average.

See that's what I don't understand. I ran MSI Afterburner while playing BF4 on Ultra and am averaging 70-100 FPS.The GPU is being fully utilized according to Afterburner and the CPU is sometimes around 50% utilization but not often. Temps are more than acceptable with GPU and CPU temps not exceeding high 40's and low 50's C. The idea that the 1080p resolution is not high enough doesn't seem to hold water here since the GPU is being fully utilized right?

[Mick Naughty]

21 minutes ago, Shadymer85 said:

See that's what I don't understand. I ran MSI Afterburner while playing BF4 on Ultra and am averaging 70-100 FPS.The GPU is being fully utilized according to Afterburner and the CPU is sometimes around 50% utilization but not often. Temps are more than acceptable with GPU and CPU temps not exceeding high 40's and low 50's C. The idea that the 1080p resolution is not high enough doesn't seem to hold water here since the GPU is being fully utilized right?

Well if its just on ultra settings and nothing else was swapped, turn scaling up to 120 I think it is, should be able to do what ever with that card on that game though. Only way to push the card harder. I couldn't use my 1080 on 1080 with bf1, couldn't get it to try so with the usage fluctuation it would make the same frames as one of my titans. If that doesn't help go back on gpu driver. 

[xg32]

it sounds like something's bottlenecking it rather than defective

[Rune]

Where did you buy the card from?

[zombienerd]

1 hour ago, Shadymer85 said:

-snip- and the CPU is sometimes around 50% utilization but not often. -snip-

Check per-core utilization.  You might see 100% on a few cores.  Reports vary on Battlefield's ability to use all the cores, such as this thread on another forum.

[Shadymer85]

Ok so it looks like the culprit in BF4 was Resolution Scaling being set to 200%. I didn't set it to that value, but that is where it was. I put it down to 120% and I am now getting 130 + FPS average on Ultra. I'm guessing the scaling is more taxing on the card than say actually rendering 1440p on a monitor that supports it. I'm hoping that is the case since I want to upgrade to a 1440p monitor. Anyways, thank you guys so much for chiming in to help. Much appreciated.