Is my gtx 670 living up to what it should be?

Ceeeeej · May 14, 2013

I recently just finished up building my first pc. I'm no expert on computers, but I want to make sure that my gtx 670 card and everything else is doing what it should. For some reason, my graphics and gaming graphics rating for my windows experience index are both 6.9. Not sure if that rating really means anything, but my friend who just built one as well has a 7.9 graphics rating with a gtx 580 graphics card. Shouldn't my rating be 7.9 as well? I also just started running fraps and while I was playing hitman absolution, I was getting about 10-25 fps on ultra and 15-30 on high settings. I feel like that's a little low and was pretty choppy on ultra at times. Or is that about right for what I have? Drivers are up to date and my graphics card is in my pci 3.0 express slot. I know it's not the best of the best, but based on benchmarks that I saw before purchasing my 670, I figured it would perform better in a game like hitman. I appreciate the help, thanks.

Specs:
i7-3770k processor
Galaxy geforce gtx 670 2gb gc (factory overclocked)
ASrock Z77 Extreme 6 motherboard
8gb 1600 ram (free with motherboard)
corsair ax750 PSU
Sandisk ultra plus 256 GB SSD
asus vg248qe monitor

lt_dan_zsu · May 14, 2013

That seems pretty low. Hitman should be getting above 30fps on ultra.
Here is the link.
http://www.techspot.com/review/608-hitman-absolution-performance-benchmarks/page5.html
Another thing, you do realize you can google this stuff right? That was literally the first result on google.

17seconds · May 14, 2013

I don't usually like to rely upon the Windows Experience Index, but in this case you should be at 8.0 or well above. I don't know, are both power cables connected to the card? Maybe check your core clock speeds while gaming and see if your clocks are alright.

hizodge · May 15, 2013

You may have some anti-aliasing settings enabled in the Nvidia control panel which are overlapping with your ingame ones and lowering performance. Another reason why Nvidia cards might get so poor performance in this game could be related to the ambient occlusion that at high setting might actually be using HDAO, which is exclusive to Radeon cards.

Can't verify this though as I have no Nvidia GPU atm. Try see if you have some AA settings enabled in Nvidia control or try turning off ingame AA and see if the game gets all jaggy.

bryonhowley · May 15, 2013

I do not give much stock in the WEI ether but you should be at 7.9 with that card. If you are running Windows 7 it will only go to 7.9 because that is the max that Windows 7 goes to so it would never show 8 or above unless you are running Windows 8.

For example my i5 3570K rig is 7.9 on all scores on Windows 7. Not booted into Windows 8 at this time but I think my graphics scores were like 8.1 8.1 or close to that. Are you running the latest drivers?

bystander · May 15, 2013

I'd recommend running 3dmark11 and tell us your performance scores and link it. Windows WEI is so inconsistent and not very accurate. The total score is always the lowest score of all the tests taken. It is usually the HDD score unless you have an SSD.

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

Ok so I checked my power connections. Everything is good with that. I changed avatar pic to a picture of the connections if you want to check it out. I know it's basically useless since it's so small, but I figured it cant hurt. Does it matter that I use 1 cord with 4 connectors as opposed to using multiple cords to my PSU? My guess is no it doesn't. My settings for anti-aliasing are all application controlled in my nvidia control panel. I checked out my speeds using on GPU-Z 0.7.0. On the graphics card tab it says I have a gpu clock of 1006 MHz, a memory of 1502 MHz, and a Boost of 1085 MHz. But in the sensors tab it says I have a GPU core clock of 324 Mhz and a memory clock of 162 MHz and those do not change. I got my memory used up to 1575 MB while playing hitman on ultra for a min or 2. GPU load at 99%. Not sure what is useful here, but I'll try and get 3dmark stuff for you guys later tonight.

Paul Raver · May 15, 2013

Ceeeeej :

Ok so I checked my power connections. Everything is good with that. I changed avatar pic to a picture of the connections if you want to check it out. I know it's basically useless since it's so small, but I figured it cant hurt. Does it matter that I use 1 cord with 4 connectors as opposed to using multiple cords to my PSU? My guess is no it doesn't. My settings for anti-aliasing are all application controlled in my nvidia control panel. I checked out my speeds using on GPU-Z 0.7.0. On the graphics card tab it says I have a gpu clock of 1006 MHz, a memory of 1502 MHz, and a Boost of 1085 MHz. But in the sensors tab it says I have a GPU core clock of 324 Mhz and a memory clock of 162 MHz and those do not change. I got my memory used up to 1575 MB while playing hitman on ultra for a min or 2. GPU load at 99%. Not sure what is useful here, but I'll try and get 3dmark stuff for you guys later tonight.

clock speeds are of, way of that should most likely be the problem.
Consider removing the drivers reboot and install them again.

cookybiscuit · May 15, 2013

Pretty sure they are fine. 324 is the cards 2D clock. The memory x4 equals 6000Mhz, exactly what it should be.

Set up an on screen display using Afterburner, activate monitoring of core and memory clocks and see what they are at.

Paul Raver · May 15, 2013

cookybiscuit :

Probably misunderstood you, I checked out my speeds using on GPU-Z 0.7.0. On the graphics card tab it says I have a gpu clock of 1006 MHz, a memory of 1502 MHz, and a Boost of 1085 MHz. But in the sensors tab it says I have a GPU core clock of 324 Mhz and a memory clock of 162 MHz and those do not change.
GPU clock from 1006MHz to 324MHz and memory 1502MHz to 162MHz part is here i went awol

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

Yea they're still 324 using afterburner. I also updated my driver. I thought trying to install the latest through device manager would work but I found a newer driver online. Now it's version 314.22. My WEI for graphics went down to a 5.9 and gaming graphics remained the same at 6.9

17seconds · May 15, 2013

Go into the Nvidia Control Panel and change the Power Management Mode to "Prefer Maximum Performance".

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

Yea I already did that. Didn't noticeably help

bystander · May 15, 2013

So are you going to run some trusted benchmarks, or continue to fool around with WEI?

cookybiscuit · May 15, 2013

Ceeeeej :

During a game?

Also like others said WEI is worthless.

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

I'm downloading 3dmark 11 now. My internet is slow so in my room so it'll take a while

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

and yes during hitman absolution on ultra settings

17seconds · May 15, 2013

You need to do a full uninstall of your drivers, then a clean install of the latest.
Just make sure that you are running the Afterburner monitor afterwards and then play a game to see if your core clocks get up to normal 3D speed: 1006 MHz.

If that doesn't fix the issue, then you have a defective card.

Ceeeeej · May 15, 2013

Here are my results from the 3dmark11 basic tests

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/656269

bystander · May 15, 2013

That is not 3dmark11, that is 3dmark (the newest, but also less useful imo due to it bottlenecking so easily). Anyways, that graphics score is much lower than it should be, from what I have seen from 3dmark scores.

edit: Notice this page, it says your score is very poor. You could follow some of the tips it gives to attempt to resolve issues, but something is not right. http://www.3dmark.com/fs/460631

Ceeeeej · May 16, 2013

Well this sucks. I guess I figured that finding a solution to this would be easier. I'll have to give Galaxy a call tomorrow and see what they say.

bystander · May 16, 2013

You may have found the solution...it may just be a defective card.

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