Msi 980 ti gaming firestrike score.

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Can anybody anybody let me know if my firestrike score is about right. I've overclocked my msi 980ti's core to 1450 and I get a 3dmark firestrike score 15,206
My rig is a 4770k 16gb,
supernova g2 750w
512 crucial ssd
Msi gaming 5 1150 board
And my case is a corsair air 540
Also card temps never go over 73
 
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You're in the 15k range which is very good. Did you overclock your Memory on the card? I know it's more important to OC the memory on 960s because of the 128 bit bus, but I wouldn't neglect the memory on 970s or 980s either.

EDIT: Please link the score page to your post so we can see the stats
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You're in the 15k range which is very good. Did you overclock your Memory on the card? I know it's more important to OC the memory on 960s because of the 128 bit bus, but I wouldn't neglect the memory on 970s or 980s either.

EDIT: Please link the score page to your post so we can see the stats
 
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Yeah I believe mine was around 15k between 15200 and 15300 would have to check when I get home but I have exact same card as yourself. Which is an awesome score as that is the same score as my old 970sli setup
 
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Ya, it's good. I got 16,300 with an evga reference 980 ti and i7 4790k at 4.6 ghz. My physics score is holding it down at 12,100 because some others clocked at 4.7 or 4.8 have like 17K or closer to 18K and their physics score is around 13,000 or more.

Physics is holding yours down, which is pretty much cpu intensive part, so you need a high overclock. Our graphics score the same at 20,100 ish and that was those other guys graphics score too. I'm gonna overclock to 4.7 or 4.8 and try it again later.

My reference is clocked at 1457 Turbo and around 2000 memory and temps around 73-75 max with custom fan curve.

I ran a few before that and I think my i7 at stock speeds was around 15,200 with a 1450 GPU overclock.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5297279



So at 4.7 GHZ, I only gained a few hundred but it did up my physics score to 13,000, cards stable at 1450 but will take some fine tuning to get up to 1480 or 1500...not gonna mess with it anymore now. 16,665

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5304837
 
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Sorry if I am breathing life into a dead post but I have the same card MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming and I am only getting the below result which seems awful low (plus the card has coil whine when witcher 3 starts up - not in game though?):

Score: 11353
Graphics Score: 13034
Physics Score: 12324
Combined Score: 5445

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5533846

I am running the card at Stock OC through msi gaming app: GPU clock 1178 MHz and Memory 1775 MHz.

I have an I7 4790k running at 4600 MHz (not sure as use Asus Ai Suite which says TPU + %10).

When running the test I set AI Suite to High Performance

My PC specs:

Corsair 750watt PSU
16Gb Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz Ram
Samsung Evo Pro SSD
Asus z87 Pro Mobo
i7 4790k
MSI Gaming GTX 980 Ti
 
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Yeah, that's too low...what is your gpu usage and gpu temps while in the firestrike benchmark or while gaming in say witcher 3? I doubt it's cpu temps or anything cause that's a good physics score...or what mine runs close to stock speeds.
 
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I uninstalled gforce experience, shut down all background processes and set my RAM to XMP in bios then re-ran the test. It is very likely that I have done something stupid with my computer though :)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5534333

My graphics score is still way lower than most sites are saying at 15438... I ran the test again with a GPU Clock of 1340MHz & memory at 2003 MHz and my score went up to 16,466.

My GPU stays at under 72 degrees in the test, GPU hits 82% usage whilst only 3549 of ram is used - feels like I got a 970 in disguise. The usage is up and down..

First time I have ever bought MSI and feels like I got a duff card - the asic quality is only %65.4 (if that means anything)

 
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Couple quick things...you should be at 99% GPU usage the entire time of firestrike but also look at your processor in those test results...some reason showing 800MHZ...Something is off there, go back into bios and double check your multipliers and voltage and maybe even save the profile but also load a new default bios setting or another overclock if you have one and try it again. Some reason your physics score is still high but that 800 shouldn't be reporting like that.

EDIT: Also check your powersaving features and make sure those settings allow you to hit max performance and make sure you didn't check something wrong in max and min processor state in those advanced settings.
 
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Reaper,

I use AI Suite from Asus and run Bios at "optimised profile" - i.e. I don't touch anything other than boot disk order :) I dicked about with the BIOS settings and discovered I wasn't very good at it!!!!Clock Frequency still shows as 800MHz though - this might be a Power Saving Feature that I haven't turned off - Asus make good kit but poor instruction manuals as I have looked to find out how to maximise performance and cannot find any info..

Without overclock and by putting the TPU switch furthest left on my mobo and checking the EPU switch was off I got a Graphics Score of 16456 and overall score of 13809... I was using stock OC on the card, one thing I noticed is that GPU Z says my GPU Clock is 1178, memory 1775 and boost 1266 - I think the boost score is a low as most reviews have stated 1279 as stock boost?!



 
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It's still pretty low compared. I just lowered my GPU core clock speeds to match yours at 1175 Mhz to compare and my graphics score is above 19,000. Mine hits around 21,000 graphics score with a heavy overclock. Don't worry about the CPU core clock speeds in firestrike, it must be a bug now because it wasn't showing my cpu overclock at all and now shows me with 0 memory lol but previous tests it did.

MSI has a few different overclocking profiles and they all vary, I wouldn't worry about that discrepency. Try this...there is a power limiter slider in msi's software that will allow you to go to 110%. It doesn't change voltage or anything like that, so it's completely safe. Change it to 110%. If it is not in MSI's software they use, they also make MSI afterburner, which I use and there is a power limiter slide you can change. Change it to 110% and run it again.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7949524
 
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Here is a funny thing... tried what you said using Afterburner and it crashed firemark so I restarted my PC..

Started Firemark and forgot to start afterburner - http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7950259?

Score of 18197 without even stock overclock!!!!

I am not Sherlock holmes but I have a hunch....

Going to try using Asus GPU Tweak with this card or another tweak software..
 
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There ya go man, that's much much better...there's something fishy with the regular msi software they give you and the settings they have from the factory. Uninstall it and just use msi afterburner, it works really good by itself. There may have been a conflict or something and afterburner usually will load up your settings on a reboot or start up of windows, even if it's closed or whatever.
 
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haha...wtf...uninstall both of them and then maybe try the one you said up there, or leave it alone if you don't care about overclocks and such. There's probably a conflict if you have more than one of those tweak softwares installed. I had issues when I had evga precision X and msi afterburner installed at the same time.
 
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Decided today to RMA the card as results are totally inconsistent (run from 14k to 18k on same settings) and the GPU usage is totally up and down in benchmarks. Plus the card is making some strange noises (might be coil whine but isn't high pitched) when under load and has an ASIC score of %65.4. I thought it might be my PSU (CX750M) but this is only 1 year old and should have some spare headroom even with this card - it ran a 300watt R9 290 OC without issue...

Bloody Americans! Try $900 (£570 GBP) for the card - not that I am a sour Brit or anything :) When you spend that amount of cash you don't want to be disappointed or suspect it is second class.

Might change it for the ASUS Gtx 980 ti Strix to match my mobo (I am an ASUS Fanboy).
 
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Bloody Americans! Try $900 (£570 GBP) for the card - not that I am a sour Brit or anything :)

Haha, yeah EU gets shafted pretty hard on prices, I feel bad for you guys. That might be the best thing to do. Rma or exchange sucks but best to make sure you get a card that works to your satisfaction when you pay that much money for it. Good luck, let us know how the new one works out.
 
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UPDATE

Just replaced the GPU and got the same buzzing noise when under load - really loud, did a thorough check and my PSU is either too weak or knackered as that is where the noise is coming from. So it is getting replaced by a RM1000mw unit and I will try and RMA then ebay the old one...

Really pissed off!!!
 
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Damn man, shame. It's probably the CX corsair, they are not that good and a lot of people have had coil whine with the cx and was fixed with a good psu...the capacitors are cheap and the RM is better but is still tier 3 but the ax and tx of corsair are the ones you really want if you want corsair, they are tier 1 and two.

There are some much better seasonic, xfx or evga psu's for around the same price that are much better than corsair.

It's not the amount of wattage but the quality that is the issue with that most likely.
 
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I got the HX1000i and has been dispatched or I would have taken your advice and bought evga or xfx..

It had about $100 off and is still tier 1. Raised a rma with corsair and will ask for a refund - hoping that as the replacement is also corsair will help.

Just glad I didn't fry my mobo...
 
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