RTX 2080 Ti Low Performance

[Chickens2Death]

Hi all,

 

My first ever post on this forum.

 

So my new RTX 2080 Ti FE arrived today (finally after a 3-week delay). I removed my old card (GTX 980 Ti) and installed my new card. I reinstalled my graphics drivers to be certain they are correct. I ran some benchmarks and a game or two and I got no performance increase at all. My benchmark on Cinebench was basically the same as my 980 ti (maybe 1 fps more), my games had 0 fps improvement, one game even had an fps drop.

 

Can ideas what could be going on?

 

I have an Intel i7-4790K overclocked to 4.6ghz. My Nvidia control panel is set to 'prefer maximum performance' too.

 

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Regards.

[CTR640]

Have you uninstalled the old drivers in Safe mode using DDU?

[FloRolf]

Okay, don't use Cinebench for gpu testing. 

 

What are clockspeeds and usage like in games? 

[Chickens2Death]

No, I haven't. I didn't think I would need to.

 

Will give it a go.

[Chickens2Death]

clockspeeds in games are around 4 ghz but the usage is low around 40%.

[CTR640]

4 minutes ago, Chickens2Death said:

No, I haven't. I didn't think I would need to.

 

Will give it a go.

At who were you replying?

[Jurrunio]

Quote people so they know who you're talking to

[KarathKasun]

Cinebench is not a valid GPU benchmark.

 

What games are you playing?  Games like Civ 5 will not be significantly faster because they are CPU limited.

[tp95112]

What resolution and games?

[Chickens2Death]

8 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Quote people so they know who you're talking to

Sorry.

[Chickens2Death]

8 hours ago, tp95112 said:

What resolution and games?

Resolution is 1080p.

games can be variety, crash bandicoot (this is fine), Prepar3d, GTA V, Crysis, Planet Coaster, robo recall other VR games.

[w1nger1]

2080 ti @ 1080p is so overkill.

Personally I use Heaven and Valley for GPU benchmark, maybe you can try that.

[Envit0]

Hey, 

 

It is pretty simple. At 1080p (especially going from 980ti) you will get a CPU bottleneck as you see from 40% GPU usage. On top of that add the 1666mhz RAM which you state to have in your profile. All of the system and especially the 1080p will not give ot barely give any performance advantage. It is important to always have in mind not just one, but overall part performance, given that you come from fairly good GPU as well. Might be agood time to invest in new monitor, ram etc.. 

[Chickens2Death]

1 hour ago, w1nger1 said:

2080 ti @ 1080p is so overkill.

Personally I use Heaven and Valley for GPU benchmark, maybe you can try that.

I know it is over kill for 1080p. It is more for the VR as I do struggle with VR on my 980.

 

i will give Valley a go as well.

[Chickens2Death]

1 hour ago, Envit0 said:

Hey, 

 

It is pretty simple. At 1080p (especially going from 980ti) you will get a CPU bottleneck as you see from 40% GPU usage. On top of that add the 1666mhz RAM which you state to have in your profile. All of the system and especially the 1080p will not give ot barely give any performance advantage. It is important to always have in mind not just one, but overall part performance, given that you come from fairly good GPU as well. Might be agood time to invest in new monitor, ram etc.. 

Hey, 

You say bottleneck but my cpu is only in low usage as well?

 

My screeen is only 18 months old. It is an Asus ROG. It wasn’t a cheap monitor almost £500.

[Envit0]

43 minutes ago, Chickens2Death said:

Hey, 

You say bottleneck but my cpu is only in low usage as well?

 

My screeen is only 18 months old. It is an Asus ROG. It wasn’t a cheap monitor almost £500.

Sometimes it is a single core that is bottlenecking and it won't show as 100CPU usage, try monitoring with hw monitor or cpuz. On the other hand there is a topic here where disabling HPET and VT-d in bios helped, try to find it. As for investing in monitor, I meant with higher rez. Like 1440p or 4k is where true advantages of 2080ti show up Cheers! Try those bios changes.. may help 

[Lathlaer]

2 hours ago, w1nger1 said:

Personally I use Heaven and Valley for GPU benchmark, maybe you can try that.

Those benchmarks utilize one core to 100%, they are extremely bottlenecked by CPU frequency. They are terrible benchmarks for GPU performance and should be used mostly for checking OC stability.

[Chickens2Death]

22 minutes ago, Envit0 said:

Sometimes it is a single core that is bottlenecking and it won't show as 100CPU usage, try monitoring with hw monitor or cpuz. On the other hand there is a topic here where disabling HPET and VT-d in bios helped, try to find it. As for investing in monitor, I meant with higher rez. Like 1440p or 4k is where true advantages of 2080ti show up Cheers! Try those bios changes.. may help 

Ok awesome hanks I will take a look l.

 

will try the bios when I get home and check back in.

[KarathKasun]

7 hours ago, Chickens2Death said:

Hey, 

You say bottleneck but my cpu is only in low usage as well?

 

My screeen is only 18 months old. It is an Asus ROG. It wasn’t a cheap monitor almost £500.

Not all games use more than two cores.  And because of how Windows reports CPU load, you will not see any one/two/three cores maxed out.

[CTR640]

Even using a 1080p monitor, you can still set games their resolution up to 2160p by enabling DSR in nVidia Control Panel.

That's how I got GTAV/4, NFS games and other games at 1440 and 2160p. I tried GTAV running 1080p on my 1080Ti for giggles and it was running shit, like microstutters or something lol.  So 1440p is the way to go. 2160p is a piece of cake in older games.

[reptileexperts]

Download and run superposition in extreme 1080p against both cards. I bet you find your difference. 

[reptileexperts]

Also, download the Forza Horizon 4 demo from the windows store and use the benchmarking tool. It will display what your bottleneck is (CPU or GPU) 

[ImNotDeViLzzz]

12 hours ago, Chickens2Death said:

Resolution is 1080p.

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: O .. Get a 4K monitor or good 4K game playing tv if you can spend the money on a card like this.

[ybriK]

On 10/10/2018 at 6:15 PM, w1nger1 said:

2080 ti @ 1080p is so overkill.

Personally I use Heaven and Valley for GPU benchmark, maybe you can try that.

On 10/10/2018 at 7:34 PM, Chickens2Death said:

I know it is over kill for 1080p. It is more for the VR as I do struggle with VR on my 980.

 

i will give Valley a go as well.

 

Never understood the "overkill" argument when the whole point of purchasing flagship GPUs is for the performance down the line without having to do frequent upgrades which is in fact more costly.

 

The same people told me this when I bought a 780 Ti for 1080p and was laughed at on how "overkill" it was. So dumb to be honest.

 

An RTX 2080 Ti for 1080p isn't "overkill" it's "futureproofing". I'd rather not have to compromise to high/medium settings in a year or 2 year's time because I bought an RTX 2070 instead and cannot hit 60+ FPS. And yes I will also be buying an RTX 2080 Ti for my 1080p monitor. But I guess the "overkill" argument is from people who have a budget target perspective???

 

Rant over.

 

Have you tried doing a fresh install of windows? Sounds tedious but you can do a full system backup before reformatting so you can revert back to it if it doesn't fix it.

[SkilledRebuilds]

^This somewhat for me too.

I bought the GTX970 when it was considered a 1440p GPU, and ran with it at 1080p for Ultra + Headroom for Massive Explosions
My Mum has it now, I went Ultrawide 2560x1080p 75hz +1080p 60hz and have an "Overkill" GTX1070 for that.

Also.... 1080p Desktops - Use 4x DSR (4K-3840x2160) WITHOUT the Blur Filter and its very clean in Games.. for those with "overkill" GPU's can still pump Reshade & other 4K funzies alongside the ride.