Low Time Spy CPU Score for I5-8600K OCd

[stlwrx]

Hello,

I don't know whats really going on here. I have a stable OC on my I5-8600k at 5.0 GHz right now. However, my Time Spy CPU score is only 5400 - when comparing this to other I5s its pretty low, even lower that I5s not running an OC as high as mine. Any ideas what could be happening? Whats even more confusing is the fact that my Cinebench r15 scores are multi = 1200 and single = 213, which appears to be very good. My max temps under heavy load never get above 65c so i dont think its a thermal issue. My overall combined score in Time Spy was 6674.

Set-up

Intel - Core i5-8600K 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor - OC'd to 5.0Ghz
Corsair - H110i 113.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus - Prime Z370-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB ROG STRIX Video Card

[Princess Luna]

Cinebench it first of all things for us ^^

 

SS with a monitoring software open so we can see how's the CPU holding up and CPU-z ^^

[Vegetable]

Yeah your CBR15 scores seem normal. My 4790k at 4.6 Ghz does 920 multi and 185 single. That Time Spy score is low though. Maybe close any and all extra programs via task manager or reinstall 3dmark itself. 

[stlwrx]

14 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Cinebench it first of all things for us ^^

 

SS with a monitoring software open so we can see how's the CPU holding up and CPU-z ^^

So you want me to run Cinebench with HW and CPUz up?

[stlwrx]

11 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Yeah your CBR15 scores seem normal. My 4790k at 4.6 Ghz does 920 multi and 185 single. That Time Spy score is low though. Maybe close any and all extra programs via task manager or reinstall 3dmark itself. 

thanks - ill try that. I just saw on the Cinebench r15 thread a I7-8700k user got 1292 CB which is not far off from my 1200 on my I5... so maybe its G-Sync or something in the Nivida control panel throwing it off. 

[Jumper118]

tim spy like fast ram and yours is slow af. like ddr3 speed

[stlwrx]

Just now, Jumper118 said:

tim spy like fast ram and yours is slow af. like ddr3 speed

would swapping in faster RAM - say 3000MHz benefit me with these benchmarks as well as gaming?

[Jumper118]

Just now, stlwrx said:

would swapping in faster RAM - say 3000MHz benefit me with these benchmarks as well as gaming?

no just oc the ram you got  might oc to 2933 or 3200 even. 

[stlwrx]

6 hours ago, Jumper118 said:

no just oc the ram you got  might oc to 2933 or 3200 even. 

I think that was it - i wanted to get some RGB ram anyway - so i returned the RAM i had and picked up some Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3466 MHz RGB...i went from a CPU score of 5400 to 6715!

 

[stlwrx]

7 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Cinebench it first of all things for us ^^

 

SS with a monitoring software open so we can see how's the CPU holding up and CPU-z ^^

I think i got it figured out - as i said below - when i put in my new 3466MHz RAM up from 2400 - i saw an increase in Time Spy CPU score (added 1315 to my score!) Thanks for the help. Cinebench scores increased as well!