Hi All,

I just upgraded my current rig to a GTX 1080 EVGA FTW edition. The card I've been hunting for over two months.

After installing everything and having to upgrade my PSU to a 750 Plat, which is also an EVGA part, I seem to be underwhelmed by the results.

I am a regular Tom Clancy The Division player and am quite puzzled at why my FPS is not higher.

My Results after running the benchmark utility over three times are the following:
AVG FPS: 74
TYPICAL FPS: 75
AVG CPU UTILIZATION: 72%
AVG GPU UTILIZATION: 96%

All at max settings at 1920x1080 @ 144HZ refresh with the latest drivers

Current Rig Stats:

i5 4670K overclocked to 4.4 Ghz
16 GB of Ram
250 GB SSD
EVGA FTW GTX 1080 stock clock speed

Is this what I should expect? Because if this is what I supposed to expected, compared to all the advertised benchmark results. This is low.

I even did a clean wipe of all my current drivers using the 3dGuru utility and was able to gain an additional 10 FPS.

I was expecting the FPS to be bouncing off the charts. HELP.

Update 8/1-----------—

Hi All,
 
I thought I would do a follow up...seems like the bottleneck exists on the CPU side.  
 
I ran the free demo of 3dMark and my results are listed below.  This is the new TimeSpy one...
 
I don't know how to embed it in here.
 
Overall Score: 6210
Graphics Score: 7232 (I'm assuming this is really good)
CPU Score: 3449 (this seems like trash)
 
h ttp://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13798724

Heya, I actually had the same thing as you. I was running 1080p @ 144hz and seemed very underwhelmed by the ingame performance. Thing is, with certain games the CPU just can't keep up with the GPU at the higher framerates. So decided to upgrade to 1440p and I couldn't be any happier. Except for the fact that I have to return the monitor because of a dead pixel lol. 
 
I am running 4670k @ 4.4 as well btw. 

Full_J
Heya, I actually had the same thing as you. I was running 1080p @ 144hz and seemed very underwhelmed by the ingame performance. Thing is, with certain games the CPU just can't keep up with the GPU at the higher framerates. So decided to upgrade to 1440p and I couldn't be any happier. Except for the fact that I have to return the monitor because of a dead pixel lol. 
 
I am running 4670k @ 4.4 as well btw. 

Hi FullJ,

So are we saying that it is game optimization related? Or is it CPU bottlenecking?

If it is CPU bottlenecking I might as well just upgrade my entire system. Basically build another system haha...

Here's looking at you i7 6700k

Supermutt, the problem is most likely thermal throttling. Monitor your temps using EVGA Precision and let us know the results. Look for frame rate drops or caps when GPU temps reach ~80C. Thanks and good luck! And FYI, this is the very reason why I switched to liquid cooling on all of my graphics cards ;-)

Do you have NVIDIA HFTS enabled? it's a new type of shadow detail,
 
http://images.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/comparisons/tom-clancys-the-division/tom-clancys-the-division-shadow-quality-interactive-comparison-001-nvidia-hfts-vs-nvidia-pcss.html
 
I read some steam posts, if you have this enabled, it will easy reduce your FPS by at least 20 FPS. The other thing is, Ubisoft aren't well known for making good quality PC ports. you might have the best system going, but a poorly optimised game won't run that well regardless.
 
I would as others suggest, try the firestrike benchmark, and some other games. I think the lowish FPS is game related, not hardware.
 
 

bcavnaugh
Welcome to the Forum
 
Maybe you can post some Fire Strike Benchmarks and the Links to them for us to review.
Links would be like this as you cannot post them yet:
 you can post this part /fs/9394581 of the link.
 Only has Four Cores and No (Intel® HT Technology) so your CPU most likely is why your FPS are low.
Is the Intel® HD Graphics 4600 disabled in your Bios?
Also what are your complete Computer Specifications.
MB Make Model
Is your MB Bios current?
What Background programs are running?
WHAT OS Version are you Running?

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies!

I will try a combination of things when I get back home tomorrow.

3dmark Firestrike benchmark
Evga utility ocmax to monitor for thermal throttling
Additional settings on my the division benchmarks

I will post my findings after it is done.

This guy worked on a SLI profile for that game to help gain performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu8lFyqAzns
 
The profile is in his description.

ipkha
If you are running a chip on the x58 platform, you're missing a good 50%+ improvement in performance per MHz over current chips. It's not just bus speeds sliding you down. Architectural improvements are slow and steady, but add up over time.

50% is quite an exaggeration... Its probably something like 10-20% bottleneck depending on the specs of the LGA1366 chips, and what overclock he is running.
 
EDIT: Misread, saw you were comparing clock for clock improvement over previous generation processors. Even so, an i7 920 is not going to bottleneck a GTX1080 that much at 1080p.

supermut555
Hi All,

I just upgraded my current rig to a GTX 1080 EVGA FTW edition. The card I've been hunting for over two months.

After installing everything and having to upgrade my PSU to a 750 Plat, which is also an EVGA part, I seem to be underwhelmed by the results.

I am a regular Tom Clancy The Division player and am quite puzzled at why my FPS is not higher.

My Results after running the benchmark utility over three times are the following:
AVG FPS: 74
TYPICAL FPS: 75
AVG CPU UTILIZATION: 72%
AVG GPU UTILIZATION: 96%

All at max settings at 1920x1080 @ 144HZ refresh with the latest drivers

Current Rig Stats:

i5 4670K overclocked to 4.4 Ghz
16 GB of Ram
250 GB SSD
EVGA FTW GTX 1080 stock clock speed

Is this what I should expect? Because if this is what I supposed to expected, compared to all the advertised benchmark results. This is low.

I even did a clean wipe of all my current drivers using the 3dGuru utility and was able to gain an additional 10 FPS.

I was expecting the FPS to be bouncing off the charts. HELP.

That is about right for your system honestly, especially if you are running max AF, max AA, max texture, shadows,etc - Most reviews say "max detail" or something similar, they do not say what AA level they used, chances are the AA was left off, and they just went max everything else and got the numbers they posted.

If it helps at all.  On the latest drivers, a 5820k at 4.4 and 980TI sli I am only getting 78.6 fps on 1440p for comparison purposes.  I know you said you are at 1440p.
 
1080P was 105.0.  All settings on ultra. 
 
 

Did you try looking at this :
 
LINK
http://forums.evga.com/Basic-troubleshooting-steps-Windows-clean-boot-clean-driver-install-debug-mode-etc-m2504606.aspx
 
 
Also, post #15
LINK
http://forums.evga.com/I-feel-like-my-GTX-1070-SC-edition-is-underperforming-Advice-please-m2521587.aspx

EVGATech_RayH
This happens a lot with GTA V specifically if you are running with a single threaded Quad-Core CPU. We made this guide based off of my own experience with the issue with the game running an OC'd i5-4670K and a GTX Titan where my FPS was stuttering and awful at 1080p and was smoother at 4k due to the bottleneck being placed on the GPU rather than the CPU at the higher resolution. Likely it is just the buggy game not utilizing the CPU like it should and this guide should help:
http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59641
Making that batch file worked wonders for my performance in GTA V

I have weird issues with every ubisoft game that came out in the last year or so. They really do not optimize well. 

Hi All,
 
I thought I would do a follow up...seems like the bottleneck exists on the CPU side.  
 
I ran the free demo of 3dMark and my results are listed below.  This is the new TimeSpy one...
 
I don't know how to embed it in here.
 
Overall Score: 6210
Graphics Score: 7232 (I'm assuming this is really good)
CPU Score: 3449 (this seems like trash)
 
h ttp://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13798724
 
 
 

I tend to agree with stalinx20.  I am generally pretty solid with my Ubisoft games as well.  The only game that seems to run funky from time to time is the Division.  This isn't me saying it has any issues running.  It just from time to time will randomly drop FPS for no apparent reason.  Next time I load the game up, it won't drop in the same spots. 

stalinx20

ragevirusqq
I have weird issues with every ubisoft game that came out in the last year or so. They really do not optimize well. 

You have 2 980TIs and you're having horrible performance on every Ubisoft game? Wow... No issues here. I think it's on your end.

When they launch they are terrible. It always takes them a couple months to iron stuff out. Also, not horrible performance only weird issues. like Far Cry 4 sli flickering. Division at launch driver crashing and the floor falling out etc.