Looks like your new card is only off by 3 fps.

Sajin
Looks like your new card is only off by 3 fps.

Yeah but at 4K and those frames, that's a 12% difference. The difference in frames is bigger at lower resolutions. I upgraded from a 980 Ti so I'm trying to squeeze the most out of this GTX 1080 . It just doesn't make sense that the same type of card is performing worse at higher clocks and lower temps. Blows my mind. What did EVGA do to prevent this thing from exploding?
 
Nvidia needs to hook me up with one of those $600 Titans 

IchigoSoulReaper

Sajin
Looks like your new card is only off by 3 fps.

Yeah but at 4K and those frames, that's a 12% difference. The difference in frames is bigger at lower resolutions. I upgraded from a 980 Ti so I'm trying to squeeze the most out of this GTX 1080 . It just doesn't make sense that the same type of card is performing worse at higher clocks and lower temps. Blows my mind. What did EVGA do to prevent this thing from exploding?
 
Nvidia needs to hook me up with one of those $600 Titans 

Maybe the clocks of your new card aren't 100% stable. Try lowering your clocks a bit to match what your old card clocked at.
 
You'll need to talk to nvidia about the titans. 

I had RMAed my original FTW 1080 as well and received the new card November 7 with thermal pads installed. Like your situation, this new card clocks much higher than the original one I had. Below is a link to a Time Spy score at clock +125/memory +400. That's a graphic score of 8057 and an overall score of 7584. Sweet, and I've never had a score this high with the previous card.
 
I agree with what Sajin says about perhaps your clocks aren't stable as I have seen with some friends that additional boosts to clock OR memory can produce a lower score. In my case I know this FTW 1080 thermal mod card could take more than the clocks I used but frankly I'm not interested in trying. I only OC to see how the card runs with an OC in a benchmark and then it goes back to defaults for gaming.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16048877
 
And here is my Firestrike score, 19247. Didn't hit the 19K mark with by original card.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16048975?
 
PS: with my original card I clocked at +110/+400 as the core wouldn't take much more than 110-114.
 
PPS: most important to me is the original card at stock never went below 1898 core in gaming. That wasn't bad but with the new thermal mod card and the same fan curve this new card doesn't go below 1924 while gaming. Double sweet.

It seems like that your new card isnt under full load. So it has a lower temperature thus has a higher clock.(personal view) . Have you tried reinstall the software and the driver?(hope this will work)(sorry for my poor English)

Just for reference here's my score with pretty much the same system specs as the OP. 1080 Classified at stock + 6700K @4.5Ghz.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16145637?

Shen_Miao
It seems like that your new card isnt under full load. So it has a lower temperature thus has a higher clock.(personal view) . Have you tried reinstall the software and the driver?(hope this will work)(sorry for my poor English)

3D mark's details say GPU was under 100% load during the graphics tests. Yeah I tried a clean install with the latest 4 nvidia drivers but the results were always the same. No idea why it's scoring so low.

Keidj
Just for reference here's my score with pretty much the same system specs as the OP. 1080 Classified at stock + 6700K @4.5Ghz.
 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16145637?

Yeah that's how my last card was performing :/

Go install the 375.95 Driver, it's the latest. Don't install the 375.90, it's been reported that the memory O/C's aren't running at what they should be.

Legacy-ZA
Go install the 375.95 Driver, it's the latest. Don't install the 375.90, it's been reported that the memory O/C's aren't running at what they should be.

375.95 is what I had initially when I made this thread and it's the drive I currently have as well man

Try with a lower VRAM OC. These 10 series cards appear to have an aggressive ECC and pushing the memory OC too far can negatively impact FPS (and benchmark scores).
 
Also know that certain windows updates can, and have in the past, reduced overall PC performance.