2080ti underperforming by a large margin

[driver81]

Hi all,

New to this forum - hope you can help me find a solution for this problem.

I have a two year old machine, that used to perform really well, but recently been having trouble getting the FPS I was used to. Thought maybe an update to the Geforce driver would help, but it continues.

So thought I would do 3Dmark benchmark and compare, and my score is in the below 2% of same systems. Just did a complete reinstall of Windows, which didn't help.

Is there anything in the benchmark that stands out? Or anything you would recommend me try?
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/19816039


Also did a user benchmark, that could give some more insights.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/42363133


What I have checked :
Fresh install of Windows
Updated BIOS on MB
PCIe running gen3
RAM is running in XMP mode
Power management in Windows and Nvidia Control Panel is set to Performance
G-Sync is off when running benchmarks

 

[JediFragger]

Might be good to give the specs of your machine too, could be useful to diagnose.

 

[driver81]

Ah, I thought everything was visible on the two benchmarks.

Its a i7 8086K, Asus 2080ti, Asus Z370F MB and 16 GB DDR4 RAM

 

[Rroff]

How recent? there is a Windows 10 update which is causing performance issues and/or stuttering in games for quite a few people - thread here https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...erates-and-causing-games-to-stutter.18926593/

 

[Jay-G25]

according to your 1st benchmark it looks like XMP isn't enabled as Ram is running at 2183 Mhz but your userbench shows 3000Mhz for Ram Temp seems a bit warm for a Stock clock card ... maybe time for a repaste and new thermal pads .

 

[driver81]

Thanks for helping out

The problem started before the Windows 10 update, but have already removed that update, just to be sure it wasn't causing more issues.

I can see I posted the results in the first bench before XMP was re activated - here is a later run : https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19892687

 

[driver81]

My GPU temp has since the beginning been around 68-70 degrees, so it shouldn't be the reason for the performance drop

 

[Marak]

Definitely something wrong there, looking at other Timespy scores with similar specs you're showing a 20-30% performance loss.

Download the latest GPU-Z and take a look on the sensors page when you have all other programs closed. If the GPU Load is above 0% then start loading all the programs you might have in the background, Steam, Discord, browsers etc one by one and see if the GPU load increases at all.

There was a time a while back where the Blizzard launcher was causing me performance issues while gaming, and I had to minimise it when in game or it got all choppy. It might still be happening but i have it set to minimise on game start all the time now.

 

[Jimbo Mahoney]

How recent? there is a Windows 10 update which is causing performance issues and/or stuttering in games for quite a few people - thread here https://www.overclockers.co.uk/foru...erates-and-causing-games-to-stutter.18926593/

Could be that.

Beware that almost everyone of the GPU benchmarks online is going to be overclocked.

My rigs are the same until I overclock the GPU - i.e. it "looks" like they are underperforming, but only because so many people submit overclocked scores.

PLUS people who are into tweaking and overclocking will submit more results than normal, further skewing the results to the hign end.

I can't find my benchmarks with my default (i.e. straight from the box) settings, but my GPU scores are 10%+ higher now I've overclocked / tuned the MSI Afterburner profile.

 

[Sh4rkie]

Something very wrong with those numbers. Is your mb and gpu bios up to date?

My 2080ti running on a quiet fans profile together with my 9900k capped to 4.8Ghz (old W10 install, no fancy tweaks and not optimised for benchmarking).

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/19582057/spy/19892687#

 

[StrongSad]

Wow My 2070 super score is higher than yours.

What is your GPU utilisation as the GFX score is way down on what it should be. CPU looks OK.

All I can think of is a Framerate Cap somewhere.

 

[CuriousTomCat]

Check the GPU and memory frequencies while gaming in case they're clocking down

 

[JediFragger]

Check the GPU and memory frequencies while gaming in case they're clocking down

And if they are then set it to 'Performance Mode' in the NCP

 

[driver81]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

I have downloaded GPU-Z, and with the regular app open, its at 0% GPU Load, so that should be fine.

I have tried running GPU TweakII from ASUS, to monitor GPU/Mem frequencies and they were at the expected level. Tried OC and got 1905mhz on the GPU. Right now it is uninstalled, as I wanted to make sure that software didn't do something.

Cant think of any other software that could be capping my FPS, as I only have Nvidia Control Panel and Geforce Experience installed now.

 

[driver81]

Even tried taking my ASUS AC Wifi card out, to make sure it wasnt doing something bad to my GPU, but no difference.

 

[driver81]

I have updated my MB BIOS to the latest, is it also possible to update GPU BIOS? Have never done that before

StrongSad -> My GPU load according to GPU-Z during gaming is 99%

 

[driver81]

Just ran another Time Spy - GPU-Z says :
GPU clock 1890MHz
Mem clock 1800 MHz
GPU temp 72,6
It also has something called Hot Spot - that says 107,3?
Mem temp 99,5

Max fan speed 1&2 48%

 

[chaparral]

Just ran another Time Spy - GPU-Z says :
GPU clock 1890MHz
Mem clock 1800 MHz
GPU temp 72,6
It also has something called Hot Spot - that says 107,3?
Mem temp 99,5

Max fan speed 1&2 48%

Am going run a test of time spy with my PC which is almost the same spec as yours

My PC
i7-8700k
Asus 2080ti

 

[chaparral]

Am going run a test of time spy with my PC which is almost the same spec as yours

My PC
i7-8700k
Asus 2080ti

My test came out at 12892

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-8700K Processor,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MAXIMUS X FORMULA (3dmark.com)

 

[chaparral]

I just been comparing my Test vs yours can you not increase the CPU overclock as 4500mhz is a very low clock speed for a 8086k cpu