3dmark Firestrike 600 point drop after driver updates/win 10

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Asked this on the Windows 10 forums but never got any replies. Wanted to see if anyone else ran into this issue. I have 2 XFX R9 280's in crossfire, mildly overclocked. Just updated to the new catalyst BTW (no change). Tried wiping the drivers (and doing a driver cleanup) and reloading that got it up to 9187. Previously in Win 7 Pro I was able to get a score of 9522 - 9646 in Firestrike (at 1080p) with the system in my sig. Since the Win 10 update I am stuck between 8890 - 9187. No hardware change, no settings changes, nothing at all, tried with vsync on and off as well (in catalyst).

What I did notice is my graphics score dropped from about 15k to about 13k while my Physics score shot up from about 6k to about 7k.

Examples: 8932 (8/6 on Win 10)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5637093

9646 (7/30 on Win 7)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5547171

Now what I will say is that higher physics score is noticeable, while the result is lower it "feels" smoother and in the physics test its a huge difference. So I'm not really complaining, however I feel like with such a drop in graphics if Physics could remain what it is now, and Graphics would go back where it was, I would be around 10,000 or more.
 
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Most likely has to do with the new everything...drivers and win 10 combination. I lost about 400-500 points in firestrike at same clock speeds and everything, from win 8.1 to win 10. And after a week or two or whatever, I've had to lower my clock speeds on my GPU from 1292 MHz base clock to 1240-1250MHz to be stable on all my games that were stable in 8.1.

I've thought about going back to 8.1 until we get dx 12 games but I don't know...I'm sure it will get fixed as it goes along.

EDIT: I also tried all the different drivers available for win 10 and it didn't change anything either.
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Most likely has to do with the new everything...drivers and win 10 combination. I lost about 400-500 points in firestrike at same clock speeds and everything, from win 8.1 to win 10. And after a week or two or whatever, I've had to lower my clock speeds on my GPU from 1292 MHz base clock to 1240-1250MHz to be stable on all my games that were stable in 8.1.

I've thought about going back to 8.1 until we get dx 12 games but I don't know...I'm sure it will get fixed as it goes along.

EDIT: I also tried all the different drivers available for win 10 and it didn't change anything either.
 
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Ok thanks for the replies I was kind of suspicious of the drivers as well. Since the latest update it has gone up a bit and now is solidly in the high 9100's (where when I first updated it was as low as 8890). Guess I'll need to be patient. Like I said the physics score has actually made it all feel like better performance anyway.
 
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