Unusually low performance with GTX 660?

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XxDerpyNomerxX

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Here's the deal, I have an old Dell monitor that is set to 60 Hz with a resolution of 1680x1050, and my graphics card is an EVGA 3 GB GTX 660, but there seems to be a problem, and that problem is the fact that my frames are unusually low. I've seen people get higher frame rates at higher resolutions at max settings.

Here are my frame rates for different games at 1680x1050 at high settings:

Minecraft: 100 FPS
Trove: 50 FPS
Bioshock Infinite: 55 FPS
Bioshock 1 and 2: 45 FPS


Basically, all of my games get less then 60 FPS or aren't as high as they should be. I've tried setting my power settings to performance mode, overclocking, etc.
 
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Games always spike up and down. Every scene is different. One scene is easy for a GPU to drawn, and you can simply turn a little bit, and a more complex scene appears that takes the GPU 3 times longer to draw. Thats just the nature of the beast.

You are not going to get a graphics card that will do 60 FPS constantly. I dont care if you buy a Titan X. You will have some scenes that will drag it down too. Obviously if you have a $1000 video card, you want less of those drops and with a $200 card, but they will still happen.

Stop paying attention to the FPS numbers while you are playing. They will go up. They will go down. Watching the numbers all the time is only going to frustrate you. Play the game. If you are not watching an FPS...
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Monitor if it is running at the highest frequency all of the time. Get GPU-Z, Afterburner, or something like that.
 
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Does a higher frequency mean better performance?
 
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Yes, when comparing the same chip. It could be that your drivers aren't allowing your card to clock to its non-idle state. Have you updated drivers?
 
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My drivers are updated to their latest versions, well, the only drivers I have are MSI Afterburner and the standard nVIDIA one from the website.
 
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Alright, I can confirm that my GPU and my CPU and all of my cores and stuff are running at their set clock speeds.
 
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If your CPU and GPU are running at their spec speeds, then most likely, those other people that were running at higher resolutions and getting higher FPS numbers than you most likely were using overclocked systems, lower settings in the games (less detail), probably had all of the anti-aliasing turned off and so on. On the other hand, you are probably playing with anti-aliasing on, which makes the screen look pretty but eats a ton of processing time.

Mine craft runs at 100 FPS for you. But your monitor is only able to display 60 frames per second maximum. The other games are pretty close to 60. And 60 isn't the only "playable" number of frames. Many games look good all the way down to 30 FPS. Others need 40, or 50, or even 60.

I say this a lot. Play your game without an FPS counter on your screen. If its fun to play, and you generally experiencing smooth gameplay, you are getting enough FPS. If its not smooth, lower the detail settings some, turn the anti-aliasing down or off. How many jagged lines can you actually see at 30 or higher FPS. Oh sure, if you take a screenshot and look at that later, yes you can see the jaggies, but during the game play if you are moving around, you are not going to see most of that anymore.
 
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XxDerpyNomerxX

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But I run without AA and a lot of times it spikes up and down, it gets distracting :/
 
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Games always spike up and down. Every scene is different. One scene is easy for a GPU to drawn, and you can simply turn a little bit, and a more complex scene appears that takes the GPU 3 times longer to draw. Thats just the nature of the beast.

You are not going to get a graphics card that will do 60 FPS constantly. I dont care if you buy a Titan X. You will have some scenes that will drag it down too. Obviously if you have a $1000 video card, you want less of those drops and with a $200 card, but they will still happen.

Stop paying attention to the FPS numbers while you are playing. They will go up. They will go down. Watching the numbers all the time is only going to frustrate you. Play the game. If you are not watching an FPS number, you will be happier.

When a game starts becoming frustrated, and you have lowered the settings, multiple times, and its still "unplayable", it might be time to consider an upgrade. But that is something that you have to decide for yourself.
 
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