Hello,
 
a few days ago i received my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW. The card runs smooth and silent but there is a thing which worries me.
When i do some Benchmarks or just stress tests the card has a 99-100% GPU workload over the whole time with a 70-90% power draw.
But when i play games like BF4 (Ultra at 1080p MSAA x0) the card only runs at 40-60% workload. This sometimes causes low FPS in scenes where much action like explosions and particles is.
 
Since the card arrived i installed the newest NVidia Driver, MSI Afterburner (6.4.0) and EVGA POC.
 
What's the problem?
 
Hardware:
i5 3570k @ stock (will be OC'ed when my new PSU arrives)
GIGABYTE GA Z77X UP7
EVGA GTX 1070 FTW with fixed BIOS(86.04.50.00.72 and the other one for the Slave BIOS)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W 80+ (will be exchanged against a BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 750W 80+ Platinum)
Corsair H100i GTX
Fractal Define R5 Black
Corsair SSD and 2 HDD's
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1600MHZ DDR3 (2x8GB)
 
OS: Windows 10 64bit
 
 
Should i make a clean install of Win 10? I've seen a thread where this has helped the user.
The thermalmod itself isnt applied yet but it will be hopefully in the next days/weeks.(thermal pad and paste)
 
I thank you for all advices!
 
DREHK1CK
 

The problem? "i5 3570k @ stock"

Sajin
Use nvidia dsr feature to increase your resolution to 1440p. That should help.

You know DSR does not look good in every game. Personally i dont like it at all.
And thats not really a solution, because there is no problem :D
 
I have they same in some games but as long i have high enough fps i dont care if my Gpu is at 60% or 70%.

Sajin
Use nvidia dsr feature to increase your resolution to 1440p. That should help.

I don't believe you need Nvidia DSR in BF4.  If I remember right it has a Resolution or Render Scale setting in-game for this.
 
Anyway, low GPU usage usually means the game isn't very graphically demanding (in relation to the power of your GPU) or it's a CPU bottleneck (CPU can't feed the GPU enough instructions to keep it tasked).  As someone else said, you didn't mention what FPS you are actually getting.  Also, increasing the Render/Resolution Scale setting that I mentioned earlier would certainly help push the GPU more.

stalinx20
You have not explained what kind of FPS you're getting in your applications.

I'm going to make a short video of some games with Afterburner Overlay activated.

Finished uploading.
Heres the video. You will see, that the card sometimes goes up too 100% and goes down back again.
Dont mind the gameplay, just the Overlay.
 
Afterburner setup in the picture.
 

DREHK1CK
DSR didnt bring any positive changes.

It should have increased your gpu usage.

http://www.coderbag.com/p...u-core-parking-utility

DSR didnt help. Im going to test it again later.
I've already changed power management to maximum. Didnt bring any positive changes in BF4.

Im going to take a look at those parked cores.

Ehm. I've had installed the buggy NVidia Driver and a day later i installed the fix of it.
Cant tell you which driver im running right now but i guess its the latest WHQL.

I really think that my PSU is messing things up.
The idle vCore of my i5 is way too high. 0.972v while ideling on 0% usage and 1.6GHz.
Normal should be 0.825v.
I can set a negative offset of 100mV and more.
Also the card isnt clocking down in idle. 1607MHz on the core and 4007MHz on the VRAM's.

Im going to test a 600W Corsair PSU later when im back home.
I will tell you my results then.

I have also made a full clean install of Win10 64bit. Couldnt test it yet but later im able.

Thanks for all replies.