Yeah i have both cpu 8 pin power connections plugged in, the cpu 6 pin power connection plugged in, and the 4 pin molex at the bottom of the board plugged in for extra power to the pcie slots for multiple gpu's. 

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On my godlike Z490 , there is a seperate power connector just for PCEi.
Could it be a power issue on your
MOBO?
Saying that, my KPE sli scores were pants .

Yeah thats where i get kinda confused, my score of 15699 time spy extreme has me at #22 in the HOF with dual kingpins on my intel board and on this AMD board my score is only 12000 not even in the top 100 so something is up for sure.  I have decided to remove the kingpins from the AMD setup and put them back into my Intel setup and see what happens. 

OK so with the kingpins back in my intel set-up the pcie power usage still shows the same thing with 0 usage so that seems to be a kinda normal thing i guess because my scores are way back up now. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What was the problem?
Don't tell me it was AMD, as if I didn't know lmao .

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What was the problem?
Don't tell me it was AMD, as if I didn't know lmao .

Don't know yet, once i put the cards back into the AMD setup i will have to try and narrow it down from there now that i know its not the kingpins or the nvlink bridge, don't know if its a bios issue for the AMD motherboard, might try a different bios and i'll probably reinstall the operating system as well.  Its weird, on the AMD setup my 3970X cpu score is almost 5000 points higher then the intel 9980XE, but on the AMD setup my GPU score is 3000 points lower then the Intel board with the same 2 gpu's. Challenging my knowledge for sure. 

I always thought GPU benefited from faster CPU clock speeds?

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I always thought GPU benefited from faster CPU clock speeds?

Depends on the resolution. Back when the 980 Ti's were new, my 980 Ti SLI at 1080P setup was hugely CPU bound - it wasn't with a single 980 Ti. 4K moved the bottleneck to the GPU(s) where it has stayed so far even with newer & faster GPUs.

Even with KPE in SLI ?
Wouldn't it be back on the CPU then .

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Even with KPE in SLI ?
Wouldn't it be back on the CPU then .

At 4K? Only for games that don't need GPU horsepower to begin with.

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What was the problem?
Don't tell me it was AMD, as if I didn't know lmao .

Are you saying my AMD just isn't gonna get to the performance level of my 9980XE with the Kingpins ? Well i guess the problem is too much CPU and not enough GPU bandwidth via the pcie because my problem was the bottlenecking of the the GPU's.  Went from 12,000 to 16,291 in time spy extreme by turning off the multi threading of the cpu.   Got me to #12 HOF for that category. http://www.3dmark.com/spy/13100025