980ti Gigabyte G1 gaming poor performance and low benchmark score

Niddles

Commendable
May 7, 2016
5
0
1,520
Hi,
I am concerned that there is a problem with my PC that is causing poor performance in games and I am not sure what it may be, i think its something to do with my new graphics card.

In games such as battlefield 4 and Tom Clancy's the division i have started to notice that the performance of my 980ti G1 gaming (which i replaced my gtx970 strix with last Christmas) is not performing as well as i expect it to and is not living up to other peoples benchmarks, I started to look more into this problem and went online to find other peoples benchmarks with the same card and they scored around 6500 in Unigine valley1.0 and on the same settings I with the same card (980ti G1 gaming) only scored 3999. This leads me to believe that there is almost certainly something wrong with my pc.

I don't believe this to be a hardware bottleneck and all of my nvidia drivers are up to date, the rest of my system specs are as listed:

CPU- i7-4790k@4.00 ghz
RAM - Corsair vengeance DDR3 16GB at 2133mhz
PSU - corsair RM850x
motherboard- Gigabyte GA-z97x-Gaming5

For reference in bf4 on ultra settings i have been getting around 80-110fps average and around 60fps on the division on ultra which compared to other peoples benchmarks with the same card is seemingly low. This concerns me just because it is (or at least should be) a very powerful pc.

I am hoping that someone will be able to be able to help me identify what is wrong and help my fix this issue.
Thank you.
*It should be noted that i am using Gigabyte's OC_GURU2, and am using the OC mode*
 
Solution

Ok, so for an update i have just spent the last hour and a half or so cleaning my radiator (there was an unbelievable amount of dust) and fans as well as adding another fan to my radiator to make it so they both exhaust the air out the back instead of one fan blowing air in through the back, this had made my idle temps go down from 65ish to about 35 so this appears to have solved the thermal throttling issue for now until my new cooler gets here. (i have ordered a corsair h80i GT).

Thanks for all the help and info so far. :)

Niddles

Commendable
May 7, 2016
5
0
1,520


I downloaded the program driver booster 3 to check if all drivers where up to date and they are, and I do not currently have any overclock on my CPU
 

maxalge

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your score of 3999 on valley is good for the extreme HD preset @ 1080p


you sure you are not looking at scores on lower settings?


~60 fps locked on the division? thats right
 

Niddles

Commendable
May 7, 2016
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1,520


I was running the Valley test benchmark at ultra quality with no anti-aliasing @1080p I was concerned as the other benchmarks i looked up were scoring much higher.
I have just run it on the ultra preset and scored 3550
 

Niddles

Commendable
May 7, 2016
5
0
1,520


Ok, so upon doing some more testing I have discovered that my cpu is actually slightly thermal throttling, when i run prime 95 after a minute or so the clock speed goes down from around 4.2 to about 3.6 and whilst recording my cpu temps during this i see that they go to the high 90's almost reaching 100c.
Does this necessarily mean that i need to get a new replacement cpu cooler or are there other fixes? thanks.
 

Niddles

Commendable
May 7, 2016
5
0
1,520

Ok, so for an update i have just spent the last hour and a half or so cleaning my radiator (there was an unbelievable amount of dust) and fans as well as adding another fan to my radiator to make it so they both exhaust the air out the back instead of one fan blowing air in through the back, this had made my idle temps go down from 65ish to about 35 so this appears to have solved the thermal throttling issue for now until my new cooler gets here. (i have ordered a corsair h80i GT).

Thanks for all the help and info so far. :)

 
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