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GTX 1070 SC - Is my card not clocking up?

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Received an EVGA GTX 1070SC. Doing some benchmarks I noticed it was not as large of a performance boost as I had hoped. Ran some benchmarks, notably Metro Last Light with all graphics settings maxed out, 1440, SAA enabled. Left CPUID HWMonitor and MSI Afterburner on (these were not on during initial benchmarks). Performance remained the same but I noticed the clocks seem to be fairly low.

http://i.imgur.com/LW4HDXn.jpg

Unless I am misreading MSI AB, the core clock seems to cap out at 900 MHZ, memory clock at 4000 MHZ. As seen in the benchmark results, Metro Last List did not seem to get extremely high frame rates either.

I do have the latest Nvidia drivers, turned off the PC and re-inserted the card again. Does this seem normal for a GTX 1070, or is it running a bit slow?
 
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What does GPU-Z say for the pref cap reason?

Unless I am misreading MSI AB

I see 1949MHz max for the core speed while the game is running.

Maybe 1440p is too much for your system.
 
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Core clock seems to be around ~1900 now that I am double checking. Memory, according to GPU-Z, is at 2000 MHz. It seems as if some programs record memory clock at half speed but do they record it at 1/4th speed?

Performance still seems a bit slow. Only a 13 frame rate jump from my GTX 970 in Metro. Specs on profile page. Either something is wrong, or Nvidia priced this $200 too high. Don't think a 4670K would be a bottleneck even though it is only at 4GHZ.
 

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According to this video, there's nothing wrong with a 13-16fps jump going from 970 to 1070 in Metro Last Light. I don't play LL myself, so I cannot just load it up and test it out, but your numbers seem OK. Seems like a wonky and demanding game to begin with.

If a little low on the core clock. Perhaps need more ventilation in the 550D? What kind of load temperatures are you getting? What I know is that the 1070 may be quite efficient, but mine still caps out at 75 -76 during Valley and ARMA 3.

IIRC GDDR5 is "quad-pumped" so sometimes is displayed at 1/4 speed, as opposed to 1/2 speed for GDDR3.
 
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That explains the 2000/4000MHz depending on the program used then. Perhaps a 4670K is a bottleneck. Looking at GPU-Z my boost is 1974 max. Not sure if I can OC further than that before voltage comes into play. I will test more games, but those with built in benchmark tools are limited.

I have Rise of The Tomb Raider results:

GTX 970:
At 1080, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 48
At 1440, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 29.73

GTX 1070:
At 1080, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - Not yet done
At 1440, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - 43.47

* Note - textures set on very high saw a drop of 1-2 frame rates compare to high with the GTX 1070 so keep that in mind when looking at the numbers.

Temp wise the GTX 1070 is hitting 73C, but the fan speed is very low. Hitting around 27%. Very quiet. It is not a hot day but seems to be equal to the GTX 970. The default fan curve seems a bit less aggressive. I believe if the card was over heating it would start ramping up the fan.

Overall a bit disappointed with the performance difference. Was hoping to see similar results to the TPU review on the GTX 1070SC:


I used the official benchmark tool, maybe they benchmarked a different scene for the TPU review.
 
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Perhaps a 4670K is a bottleneck

I doubt that. Although you should be able to push it alittle farther atleast 4.4GHz single core loaded.
 
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That explains the 2000/4000MHz depending on the program used then. Perhaps a 4670K is a bottleneck. Looking at GPU-Z my boost is 1974 max. Not sure if I can OC further than that before voltage comes into play. I will test more games, but those with built in benchmark tools are limited.

I have Rise of The Tomb Raider results:

GTX 970:
At 1080, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 48
At 1440, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 29.73

GTX 1070:
At 1080, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - Not yet done
At 1440, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - 43.47

* Note - textures set on very high saw a drop of 1-2 frame rates compare to high with the GTX 1070 so keep that in mind when looking at the numbers.

Temp wise the GTX 1070 is hitting 73C, but the fan speed is very low. Hitting around 27%. Very quiet. It is not a hot day but seems to be equal to the GTX 970. The default fan curve seems a bit less aggressive. I believe if the card was over heating it would start ramping up the fan.

Overall a bit disappointed with the performance difference. Was hoping to see similar results to the TPU review on the GTX 1070SC:


I used the official benchmark tool, maybe they benchmarked a different scene for the TPU review.
Do you happen to have overwatch, witcher 3, star wars battlefront so we could compare fps? I have a 1070 SC and a 2600k at stock clocks and havent had any trouble with my performance matching review results.
 

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That explains the 2000/4000MHz depending on the program used then. Perhaps a 4670K is a bottleneck. Looking at GPU-Z my boost is 1974 max. Not sure if I can OC further than that before voltage comes into play. I will test more games, but those with built in benchmark tools are limited.

I have Rise of The Tomb Raider results:

GTX 970:
At 1080, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 48
At 1440, all settings maxed out (except textures set to high, VRAM limit), 2x SSAA - 29.73

GTX 1070:
At 1080, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - Not yet done
At 1440, all settings maxed out, 2x SSAA - 43.47

* Note - textures set on very high saw a drop of 1-2 frame rates compare to high with the GTX 1070 so keep that in mind when looking at the numbers.

Temp wise the GTX 1070 is hitting 73C, but the fan speed is very low. Hitting around 27%. Very quiet. It is not a hot day but seems to be equal to the GTX 970. The default fan curve seems a bit less aggressive. I believe if the card was over heating it would start ramping up the fan.

Overall a bit disappointed with the performance difference. Was hoping to see similar results to the TPU review on the GTX 1070SC:


I used the official benchmark tool, maybe they benchmarked a different scene for the TPU review.
~45% perf jump on tomb raider is good. But I agree cpu is limiting a bit. You should try and clock it higher. 4.5ghz at least. I think metro could be limited by that - but you should always compare numbers by % increase not bare fps numbers.
 
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Do you happen to have overwatch, witcher 3, star wars battlefront so we could compare fps? I have a 1070 SC and a 2600k at stock clocks and havent had any trouble with my performance matching review results.

No to any of those, sadly. I have a feeling my CPU is just a bit slow at 4GHZ. Might need an i7. Still amazed that TPU's gains over a 970 are that large; although my 970 was overclocked. But even then, the difference in many of the TPU/Guru3D benchmarks are larger margins than my own.

Will give OCing this 1070 a try. Should I alter the Core Voltage, or try moving the Power Limit to 112% and up the Core Clock/Mem Clock and see where that gets me first? Never played with Core Voltage before. With my 970 I just moved the power limit to 100% and upped the Core/Mem clock a decent bit.
 

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No to any of those, sadly. I have a feeling my CPU is just a bit slow at 4GHZ. Might need an i7. Still amazed that TPU's gains over a 970 are that large; although my 970 was overclocked. But even then, the difference in many of the TPU/Guru3D benchmarks are larger margins than my own.

Will give OCing this 1070 a try. Should I alter the Core Voltage, or try moving the Power Limit to 112% and up the Core Clock/Mem Clock and see where that gets me first? Never played with Core Voltage before. With my 970 I just moved the power limit to 100% and upped the Core/Mem clock a decent bit.

@Kanan is right. Most reviews are conducted at 1080p (to the chagrin of 1440p users like me), where the 1070 commonly pulls in ridiculously high FPS compared to the other cards like the GTX 970. But in 1440p testing, it must be done differently. For most games, the 1070 retains its performance lead, but in a %-wise comparison, and it is this way with just about any card. Pure fps comparisons will only yield disappointment, as the higher the resolution the more likely you'll be comparing unplayable numbers like 20 fps to 30 fps (an increase of 50%, but comparing a potato with a slightly faster potato).

I highly doubt your 4670K is a bottleneck at 4GHz. I run my 4790K at reduced speeds - 3.6GHz constant, turbo disabled - to limit the heat unearthly 4.4GHz heat. I know there was an article floating around that claimed the 1070 was too much for i5s, but upon further examination it is only the entry level i5s that fall short in every recent generation (i.e. the ones hovering at 3Ghz or slightly below ). I can run Valley to see what scores I can pull for a comparison.
 
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1070 is proper muscular compared to a 970... don't think you are bottlenecked at all either.

Buying a 1070 myself :)
 
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@Kanan is right. Most reviews are conducted at 1080p (to the chagrin of 1440p users like me), where the 1070 commonly pulls in ridiculously high FPS compared to the other cards like the GTX 970. But in 1440p testing, it must be done differently. For most games, the 1070 retains its performance lead, but in a %-wise comparison, and it is this way with just about any card. Pure fps comparisons will only yield disappointment, as the higher the resolution the more likely you'll be comparing unplayable numbers like 20 fps to 30 fps (an increase of 50%, but comparing a potato with a slightly faster potato).

I highly doubt your 4670K is a bottleneck at 4GHz. I run my 4790K at reduced speeds - 3.6GHz constant, turbo disabled - to limit the heat unearthly 4.4GHz heat. I know there was an article floating around that claimed the 1070 was too much for i5s, but upon further examination it is only the entry level i5s that fall short in every recent generation (i.e. the ones hovering at 3Ghz or slightly below ). I can run Valley to see what scores I can pull for a comparison.

I'm actually doing my benchmarks at 1080 and 1440. I have a slightly unorganized spreadsheet with the frame rates I got on the 970 compared with the 1070.

Trying OCing at the moment. Currently running at 100% Core Voltage, 112% power limit, +100 core and +200 memory. Default fan profile.

What it looks like in Valley after about 10 minutes:

http://i.imgur.com/i4kzXAE.jpg

Decent mild OC so far?
 

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I'm actually doing my benchmarks at 1080 and 1440. I have a slightly unorganized spreadsheet with the frame rates I got on the 970 compared with the 1070.

Trying OCing at the moment. Currently running at 100% Core Voltage, 112% power limit, +100 core and +200 memory. Default fan profile.

What it looks like in Valley after about 10 minutes:

http://i.imgur.com/i4kzXAE.jpg

Decent mild OC so far?

I have not touched my clocks yet even though I have the same nice cooler because overclocking in Pascal is really fucky (basically if not limited by voltage and power and temps, the GTX 1070 will Boost itself through the roof without any need for OC input from you). In valley, my untouched clocks vary anywhere from 1840 to 1936MHz (the base clock basically means nothing anymore). You are welcome to experiment with higher clocks but they may be met with minimal returns. I leave it on the stock fan profile and it always caps itself at 76 degrees; this is the one thing I really hate about the new generation of cards as if you give the card better ventilation all it will do is just wait longer before starting up the fans (essentially inaudible anyways).
 
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