Low FPS with MSI GTX 780 TI Gaming Edition

johnplow · Jan 7, 2014

Hey Guys,

I am hoping someone can help me out. I just bought the GTX 780 TI Gaming Edition from MSI and I do not seem to be getting the FPS i feel like i should. In BF 4 the card should be able to handle ultra but i am usually around the 47 FPS mark even with the settings tweaked with none of the AA or oversampling turned on.

I also noticed this issue in Assassins Creed Black flag. The card shipped with it and i have a mismatch of low to medium settings that i am using for that game. I feel like since it shipped with the card the game should be able to run on high.

My rig is a bit old but I feel like it should still get the job done:

CPU - Intel i7 X980 Ultra 3.33 Ghz (O.C. to 4.14 GHz)
RAM - 12 GB
Motherboard - MSI Big bang Xpower
Graphics Card - MSI GTX 780 ti
PSU - 1200 watt

Any help as always will be appreciated guys. Thanks in advance!

cjnnewman · Jan 7, 2014

Correct drivers are for SURE installed? That could be the first contributor to disaster.

johnplow · Jan 7, 2014

cjnnewman :

Hey thanks for the reply!

the Nvidia Geforce Experience says I am running on R331 Game Ready Driver (Version 331.82)

cjnnewman · Jan 7, 2014

Check your vSync settings. And run a dxdiag to ensure it's recognizing everything correctly. Post results?

Diamond-HP · Jan 7, 2014

What scores are you getting on Unigine Heaven?

Your BF4 does seem low, I get that on Medium and have what I got in my sig.

If I had an i7 and a 780 Ti I'd be expecting Ultra as well.

cjnnewman · Jan 7, 2014

My only guess is that your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU. A CPU&MOBO update may be required.

johnplow · Jan 7, 2014

so in Unigine Heaven I am getting the following results using the extreme preset out of the box and not changing any settings:

FPS - 61.9
Score - 1558
Min FPS - 8.6 (This number is not very accurate since i noticed that this seemed to be the first report when a new scene would load)
MAX FPS - 129.9

all in all this seemed to run at about 45 FPS under load in the heavy stuff... I find it hard to believe that i cant get BF4 to push more than 60 constantly after seeing this.

cjnnewman · Jan 7, 2014

Mess with the vsync settings in BF4 and in your nVidia control panel. That's my last guess, I'm not a video card expert either!

johnplow · Jan 7, 2014

Vsync is off in both applications.

I appreciate the help though!

Anyone have some other ideas? I would hate to have gotten this card only to find my CPU is a bottleneck, but I feel like if i can pull 60 FPS from that benchmark I should be able to get it in BF4 too right?

Palmbeatz · Jan 21, 2014

You Need driver R332.31 and i would just download it manual and do a manual install i get like 120 and 170 on ultra with a fx 8320 at 4.7 GHZ and non OC 780 ti

RobCrezz · Jan 21, 2014

The x980 at 4.1Ghz really shouldnt be a bottleneck I wouldnt have thought. What card did you have before?

johnplow · Jan 23, 2014

As of writing this my CPU is back at the stock 3.33 GHz. The OC Genie on my motherboard will no longer OC my CPU. It just reboots 4 - 5 times then sits at a black screen until i reset my CMOS.

i was running 2 GTX 480s in SLI before the GTX 780ti. I was going to post this question but maybe you guys could answer this.

I had 2 GTX 480s. I still have the cards. Can I SLI the 480 with the 780 ti without slowing down the 780 ti? So i guess what i am asking is that if I SLI the two cards would I be able to just use the 480 as a PhysX card?

RobCrezz · Jan 23, 2014

You cant SLI a 480 with a 780ti, but you can run one 480 in addition to dedicate to Physx.

RobCrezz · Jan 23, 2014

If I were you I would wipe and do a fresh installation of windows, to rule out a software issue.

johnplow · Jan 23, 2014

i already did a fresh windows install and the card still opperates the same way. I only play in 1920 X 1080 and from my understanding this card should be more than capable to beat up games at that resolution. I notice the card is only hitting around that 60% GPU Usage. Maybe i have a bottleneck somewhere?

I was playing borderlands 2 and i cant turn on any of the AA options because the game runs impossibly slow.

I am not a hardware guy by any means but I assume that my GPU is probably fine given that it is new and that i am paring it with 4 year old hardware. But what do you guys think? Could this be a bad card that needs to be RMAd?

johnplow · Jan 23, 2014

Is there a way, or a piece of software i can use, to test ONLY the GPU to see if it is performing the way it should? While i am sure the card is not the issue i can at least return / RMA it if it turns out to be the issue.

kngeyexo · Jan 30, 2014

47 FPS is a perfectly normal fps for the 780 Ti. I get 49 fps on ultra with no AA turned on with my EVGA Superclocked 780 Ti. BF4 is very poorly optimized, and the FPS is supposed to improve with patches. So, don't think your card is underperforming. It's not.

Amangoel23 · Jan 30, 2014

Lol no,my r9 280x on everything max at 1080p gets a stable 55+fps so no way you should get 47 fps on 780ti.

Xyklone · Feb 18, 2014

I have the same card paired with a i5 2500k @4.7 GHz and get 45fps sometimes on maps like Shanghai. It's the game dudes not the card.

Laytonoid · Mar 25, 2014

Did you ever fix this? I was just looking around thinking i was getting bad fps at 81.23 avg fps according to FRAPS on a 1920x1200 monitor. Something is very wrong here if your only getting 47 fps on a lesser resolution...

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