gtx 1070 low fps

[xxxYYYxxx]

I recently built a pc with a gigabyte windforce gtx 1070, AMD ryzen 5 1600 and 1x8gb hyperX ram. Yet on various games, I get far below the frames which review websites show for gtx 1070. On fortnite, I only get about 100fps and in rainbow six I get 70 fps. The gpu is shown to be at 100% usage and is at 72 c, the cpu is at around 70% usage. Also, my score on 3D mark time spy was 5932 which apparently was better than 59%.

[Orangeator]

Well if the GPU is at 100% load then it's not the CPU. Re-install drivers maybe?

[WereCat]

Becaue you only run a single stick of RAM.

Using single channel instead of dual channel will severely impact your performance.

[xxxYYYxxx]

1 minute ago, WereCat said:

Becaue you only run a single stick of RAM.

Using single channel instead of dual channel will severely impact your CPU performance and therefore, you cant use your GPU to its fullest potential as well.

ok, I'm gonna get more ram later on when the prices fall. And that should solve the issue?

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

ok, I'm gonna get more ram later on when the prices fall. And that should solve the issue?

Yes

[xxxYYYxxx]

12 hours ago, WereCat said:

Yes

I got my friend to bring over an 8gb stick of ram but when I plugged it in, there was little difference

[WereCat]

11 minutes ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

I got my friend to bring over an 8gb stick of ram but when I plugged it in, there was little difference

Have you plugged it to the correct slot to get dual channel?

BTW, what resolution you play on?

[faziten]

2 hours ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

I recently built a pc with a gigabyte windforce gtx 1070, AMD ryzen 5 1600 and 1x8gb hyperX ram. Yet on various games, I get far below the frames which review websites show for gtx 1070. On fortnite, I only get about 100fps and in rainbow six I get 70 fps. The gpu is shown to be at 100% usage and is at 72 c, the cpu is at around 70% usage. Also, my score on 3D mark time spy was 5932 which apparently was better than 59%.

Framerate also depends on CPU and RAM.

Ryzen 1600 is amazing for most things, but its not the absolute best for maximum FPS. Most testers do their benches with intel high overclocked CPU just because it can push a bit further in maximum FPS area.

In addition, RAM frequency is also important. Most benches will be done with 3200mhz ram in dual channel. It provides a rather small margin but it could be grater if we compare a ryzen stock + single ram module with i7 5Ghz + 2channel 3200mhz ram. And all this assuming you are using exactly the same ingame settings (comparable gameplay too) and same overclock in the GPU. 

 

In short there's a LOT under the FPS hood, game patches, ingame settings, gameplay section, hardware, drivers, OS patches, etc. It may seem straight through but it's not.

 

 

[xxxYYYxxx]

15 hours ago, WereCat said:

Have you plugged it to the correct slot to get dual channel?

BTW, what resolution you play on?

1080p, I plugged into the slot right beside the first stick

[xxxYYYxxx]

14 hours ago, faziten said:

Framerate also depends on CPU and RAM.

Ryzen 1600 is amazing for most things, but its not the absolute best for maximum FPS. Most testers do their benches with intel high overclocked CPU just because it can push a bit further in maximum FPS area.

In addition, RAM frequency is also important. Most benches will be done with 3200mhz ram in dual channel. It provides a rather small margin but it could be grater if we compare a ryzen stock + single ram module with i7 5Ghz + 2channel 3200mhz ram. And all this assuming you are using exactly the same ingame settings (comparable gameplay too) and same overclock in the GPU. 

 

In short there's a LOT under the FPS hood, game patches, ingame settings, gameplay section, hardware, drivers, OS patches, etc. It may seem straight through but it's not.

 

 

But I'm getting less than my friend who has a gtx 1060 3gb

[SpiralTTGL]

ram speed affects ryzen cpu performance heavily in games

[WereCat]

14 minutes ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

1080p, I plugged into the slot right beside the first stick

Then unless your motherboard has only two RAM slots, you plugged the other RAM stick into a wrong slot which means that you were still running in single channel.

[xxxYYYxxx]

13 hours ago, WereCat said:

Then unless your motherboard has only two RAM slots, you plugged the other RAM stick into a wrong slot which means that you were still running in single channel.

My task manager said there was 16gbs when I did it tho

 

My motherboard has it in this layout: red- black- red- black

was I supposed to plug it into the one with the same colour?

[WereCat]

6 minutes ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

My task manager said there was 16gbs when I did it tho

Yes.

But it was running in single channel.

 

To run dual channel, you need to occupy every other slot if you use just two sticks of RAM.

 

Just look into your motherboards manual.

[xxxYYYxxx]

12 hours ago, WereCat said:

Yes.

But it was running in single channel.

 

To run dual channel, you need to occupy every other slot if you use just two sticks of RAM.

 

Just look into your motherboards manual.

He also had a different brand, did that make a difference?

[WereCat]

3 minutes ago, xxxYYYxxx said:

He also had a different brand, did that make a difference?

It shouldn't matter