Krad123
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Hi,
I've been testing my tri SLI Titan X cards on Unigine Valley benchmark and I noticed that the GPU's are not all being used fully. I'm still new to this so I'm wondering if there is something I did wrong. Here's a picture of the charts I got from EVGA precision X 16
Shouldn't all cards try to run at maximum % of usage? or is there something limiting it?
I'm running on an intel core i7 5960x 3.00GHz. All cards have a GPU clock offest and memory clock offest of 40MHz.
Thanks
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/02 23:05:05
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Krad123
Hi,
I've been testing my tri SLI Titan X cards on Unigine Valley benchmark and I noticed that the GPU's are not all being used fully. I'm still new to this so I'm wondering if there is something I did wrong. Here's a picture of the charts I got from EVGA precision X 16
Shouldn't all cards try to run at maximum % of usage? or is there something limiting it?
I'm running on an intel core i7 5960x 3.00GHz. All cards have a GPU clock offest and memory clock offest of 40MHz.
Thanks
Welcome to the forum. If you're getting over 85% utilization with 3-way SLI TITAN X GPU's you're doing fine. You didn't tell us your resolution. Higher resolutions will result in higher GPU utilization and so would overclocking your CPU help to a certain extent. Increasing the clocks on the GPU's is not going to increase their utilization.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/02 23:06:38
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What resolution are you running at? What are the settings in the menu for Valley? Make sure you turn your settings up to the maximum available and have everything set to the highest detail possible.
You can not post pictures, links or anything like that until you have been on the forums for a bit. That is just to keep spammers from coming in and trashing the forums, which they still do occasionally.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/02 23:12:18
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Try posting your image again, it didn't come through.
You can go to the Nvidia control panel, and enable the on-screen SLI indicator to see what the load is on the cards. It should fill the bar completely, but it will vary based on what's being rendered.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 07:34:36
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Thanks all.
I was running on a single monitor at 1920 x 1080. Valley was running at extreme HD settings.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 07:51:26
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Try posting your image again, it didn't come through.
You can go to the Nvidia control panel, and enable the on-screen SLI indicator to see what the load is on the cards. It should fill the bar completely, but it will vary based on what's being rendered.
I can't post pics or links yet lol  . I enabled the visual indicator when running Valley on extreme, but the bar doesn't get filled completely. More like 50% up to 80%.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 08:37:04
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Krad123
Thanks all.
I was running on a single monitor at 1920 x 1080. Valley was running at extreme HD settings.
Wait a minute! You have a $1,000 CPU 3 $1,000 GPUs And you're running a 1080p monitor?! I'm surprise you're even getting any usage at all on the other 2 as 1 Titan X would eat up and spit any and everything out running at 1080p
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 09:44:12
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MrImSoGood
Wait a minute!
You have a $1,000 CPU
3 $1,000 GPUs
And you're running a 1080p monitor?!
I'm surprise you're even getting any usage at all on the other 2 as 1 Titan X would eat up and spit any and everything out running at 1080p
That's what I thought would happen. I thought I would get really high scores on the benchmark results like it's nothing. But the scores weren't as I expected. I got: FPS: 130.3Score: 5450Min FPS: 36.5Max FPS: 215.0SystemPlatform:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz (3000MHz) x8 GPU model:NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 9.18.13.4788 (4095MB) x3 SettingsRender:Direct3D11 Mode:1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen PresetExtreme HD And when I see other people's results, I see some running GTX 980s on Tri SLI and getting over 194.1 average FPS with a score of 8121. And another on a titan X SLI with an average FPS of 190.1 and a score of 7955. This is where I started suspecting that I might be doing something wrong. When I ran a single card, I got an average of 85 FPS. I usually run on 3 monitors by the way lol. But I only ran one for benchmarking process 
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 10:00:32
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Krad123
MrImSoGood
Wait a minute!
You have a $1,000 CPU
3 $1,000 GPUs
And you're running a 1080p monitor?!
I'm surprise you're even getting any usage at all on the other 2 as 1 Titan X would eat up and spit any and everything out running at 1080p
That's what I thought would happen. I thought I would get really high scores on the benchmark results like it's nothing. But the scores weren't as I expected. I got:
FPS:130.3
Score:5450
Min FPS:36.5
Max FPS:215.0
SystemPlatform:Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz (3000MHz) x8
GPU model:NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 9.18.13.4788 (4095MB) x3
SettingsRender:Direct3D11
Mode:1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
PresetExtreme HD
And when I see other people's results, I see some running GTX 980s on Tri SLI and getting over 194.1 average FPS with a score of 8121. And another on a titan X SLI with an average FPS of 190.1 and a score of 7955. This is where I started suspecting that I might be doing something wrong. When I ran a single card, I got an average of 85 FPS.
I usually run on 3 monitors by the way lol. But I only ran one for benchmarking process
At the res with Tri-SLI especially with 3 Titan Xs you'll run into bottleneck issues with the CPU, especially if you're not overclocking it
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 13:19:21
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i7-5960X will probably easy to work on 4.0GHz and that's ideal temperature/performance speed for him and you can get few percent more GPU usage on that way. Check drivers, Power options and everything else.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 13:42:58
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MrImSoGood
At the res with Tri-SLI especially with 3 Titan Xs you'll run into bottleneck issues with the CPU, especially if you're not overclocking it
It's not bottlenecked. The CPU runs without issues. I have it overclocked to 4.3Ghz, also. Vlada011
i7-5960X will probably easy to work on 4.0GHz and that's ideal temperature/performance speed for him and you can get few percent more GPU usage on that way. Check drivers, Power options and everything else.
As for drivers I have them all updated to the latest 350.12. Power options are set to high performance.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 13:50:24
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If you normally run 3 monitors, run 3 for the benchmark and see if it taxes the gpu. The lower the resolution, the lower the gpu usage and nevmceasity to push the gpu.
Why did you spend over 3k on his just to run 1080p? That is a huge waste of resources. Get a 144hz 1440p or 60hz 4k monitor at least.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 14:05:55
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Krad123
MrImSoGood
At the res with Tri-SLI especially with 3 Titan Xs you'll run into bottleneck issues with the CPU, especially if you're not overclocking it
It's not bottlenecked. The CPU runs without issues. I have it overclocked to 4.3Ghz, also.
Vlada011
i7-5960X will probably easy to work on 4.0GHz and that's ideal temperature/performance speed for him and you can get few percent more GPU usage on that way. Check drivers, Power options and everything else.
As for drivers I have them all updated to the latest 350.12. Power options are set to high performance.
Yes it is bottlenecked because the GPUs aren't working hard to render and you have 3 of them
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 15:55:31
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Who say bottleneck is bad thing...
I know many people here who would like to experience bottleneck with poor i7-5960X in battle with TITAN X 3Way SLI.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/03 16:01:10
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If you normally run 3 monitors, run 3 for the benchmark and see if it taxes the gpu. The lower the resolution, the lower the gpu usage and nevmceasity to push the gpu.
Why did you spend over 3k on his just to run 1080p? That is a huge waste of resources. Get a 144hz 1440p or 60hz 4k monitor at least.
I usually run multiple CAD modeling software. Most would have complicated structures and assembly that requires rendering. I wanted to check on Valley why am I getting lower scores than most people. For example on post number 12014. with the same specs. I get much worse scores than the one posted. And both of us are using 1920 x 1080p while he's running on SLI. can't post links ( http:// www. overclock.net /t/1360884/ official-top-30-unigine-valley-benchmark-1-0/12010) I ran with 3 monitors, but I got lower FPS and the utilization wasn't much different than it was before.
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Re: Low GPU usage in Valley benchmarking (Titan X tri SLI)
2015/05/05 10:28:31
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