Nvidea GTX1080 Low direct x complex 9 scores

[Almayda]

3D Graphics Mark

#1 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 433.3
#2 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 1642
#3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1998
#4 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 462.0
#5 - AMD Radeon HD 6450 321.2
#6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 10341
My Baseline (2016- 5-2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 5201
This Computer 6337

Graphics 3D - DirectX 9 Simple

#1 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 41.8
#2 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 109.6
#3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 141.1
#4 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 26.8
#5 - AMD Radeon HD 6450 34.5
#6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 799
My Baseline (2016- 5-2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 418.2
This Computer 1129

Graphics 3D - DirectX 9 Complex

#1 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 23.0
#2 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 48.6
#3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 61.7
#4 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 16.3
#5 - AMD Radeon HD 6450 12.3
#6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 174.8
My Baseline (2016- 5-2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 87.9
This Computer 52.9

Graphics 3D - DirectX 10

#2 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 19.7
#3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 22.0
#4 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 4.04
#5 - AMD Radeon HD 6450 2.34
#6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 164.0
My Baseline (2016- 5-2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 66.0
This Computer 131.7

Graphics 3D - DirectX 11

#2 - ATI Radeon HD 5770 30.3
#3 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 34.5
#4 - Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 7.9
#5 - AMD Radeon HD 6450 4.54
#6 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 222.1
My Baseline (2016- 5-2 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 108.3
This Computer 310.7

[David (PassMark)]

Sounds a bit like this post.

To start with can you rule out these causes,
1) Does your monitor have freesync/G-Sync? As these have been seen to cap frame rates.
2) You are running Shadowplay, or similar screen recording software. This can happen without you knowing it, as some of it is now being auto-installed with drivers.

Also,
3) What are the rest of the hardware specs?
4) What video card device driver version are you using?

[Almayda]

no my monitor doesnt have freesync of g_sync and am not running shadow play. am running the latest Driver for my card version 373.06 and the rest of the hardware specs:

Operating System: Windows 10 Professional Edition build 10586 (64-bit)
CPU Type: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz
Number of CPUs: 1
Cores per CPU: 4
Hyperthreading: Enabled
Motherboard: Z170-P D3
Memory: 32GB Kingston DDR3 SDRAM
Videocard: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
Hard Drive: ST1000DM003-1CH162 (1TB)
Hard Drive: TS512GSSD370 (512GB)
Hard Drive: TS512GSSD370S (512GB)

Power Supply: Cougar SL 600w (can power shortage cause a prob like this with dx9) ?

[Almayda]

PassMark(R) PerformanceTest 8.0 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Thursday, October 20, 2016


Benchmark Results

Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 19634.0
CPU - Floating Point Math: 8169.3
CPU - Prime Numbers: 25.9
CPU - Extended Instructions (SSE): 52.9
CPU - Compression: 15601.5
CPU - Encryption: 2609.7
CPU - Physics: 581.9
CPU - Sorting: 9041.7
CPU - Single Threaded: 2353.4
Graphics 2D - Simple Vectors: 26.8
Graphics 2D - Complex Vectors: 181.5
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 269.3
Graphics 2D - Windows Interface: 155.4
Graphics 2D - Image Filters: 464.0
Graphics 2D - Image Rendering: 1119.2
Graphics 2D - Direct 2D: 64.6
Graphics 3D - DirectX 9 Simple: 1177.3
Graphics 3D - DirectX 9 Complex: 52.7
Graphics 3D - DirectX 10: 131.9
Graphics 3D - DirectX 11: 313.8
Graphics 3D - DirectCompute: 7306.7
Memory - Database Operations: 113.1
Memory - Read Cached: 32154.1
Memory - Read Uncached: 16191.7
Memory - Write: 10976.3
Memory - Available RAM: 30553.3
Memory - Latency: 26.0
Memory - Threaded: 21254.0
Disk - Sequential Read: 489.3
Disk - Sequential Write: 243.9
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 321.7
CPU Mark: 10687.5
2D Graphics Mark: 855.4
Memory Mark: 2904.4
Disk Mark: 3815.2
3D Graphics Mark: 6344.0
PassMark Rating: 4905.7

[David (PassMark)]

am not running shadow play. am running the latest Driver for my card

The latest drivers include shadowplay. It gets installed without you knowing about it. So are you sure it isn't installed?

[Almayda]

Shadowplay is now called "Share" dunno why its there in the nvidea geforce general tab but its switched off here

[Almayda]

any help please?

[Tim (PassMark)]

It might be worth checking the power settings in the Nvidia control panel > Manage 3D settings > Global settings > Power management mode. Try the different power options and see if it affects the result. Also make sure that the DSR - Factors option is turned off.

[Roberto F Rossi]

Directx 9 complex just scores normally for me if I put the nvidia device driver image settings to "balanced" or "quality" (without customizing).

Using the nVidia "performance" setting reduces my score down by 50%.

NVIDIA settings performance scores 60fps, balanced 130+fps (using gtx 1060 6gb zotac amp!).

When i had a 960 it'was clear too that the test didn't use more than 50% gpu usage, seeing via osd/rivatuner, so I had, to hit maximum to enter Passmark performance test via balanced quality, run the directx 9 test, change the quality to performance, and run directx 10,11,12,and the other test. I've hit 11300 3d score with my geforce 1060 amp! zotac 10% overclock. 0% overvoltage.

[Tim (PassMark)]

We don't currently have a GTX 1060 to test with and are looking at getting one however we ran some tests with a GTX 960 and GTX 970 and didn't see the same drastic changes as you are getting;

GTX 970 Win7
Power policy	DX9	DX10	DX11	GPUCompute
Optimal Power	152	132	182	4566
Adaptive	152	132	182	4477
Prefer max	151	132	182	4585

GTX 960 Win10
Power policy	DX9	DX10	DX11	DX12	GPUCompute
Optimal Power	135	72	87	22	3696
Adaptive	135	72	86	22	3652
Prefer max	135	72	86	22	3685

We also tried the "Adjust image settings" options, Performance, Balanced and Quality and saw a bigger difference (due to the number of settings that are changed) but this was still only ~15% for the DX9 test;

GTX 970 Win7
Image Settings	DX9	DX10	DX11	GPUCompute
Performance	160	147	184	4504
Balanced	154	147	180	4371
Quality	136	145	173	4312

GTX 960 Win10
Image Settings	DX9	DX10	DX11	DX12	GPUCompute
Performance	145	77	89	22	3717
Balanced	146	77	87	22	3645
Quality	132	77	84	22	3614

[Roberto F Rossi]

Thank you Tim for replying me. It must be my specific hardware that causes it then! I love performance test!

[Tim (PassMark)]

We just tested a GTX 1060 here (Win10) and saw some similar results to what you are seeing, when the Nvidia device driver image settings are set to "Performance" the DX9 results will decrease. Which is the opposite of what should happen.

GTX 1060
Image Settings	DX9 (Frames per sec)
Performance	192
Balanced	226
Quality	223

We also ran the test using the "Advanced 3D" options to try some different resolutions and AA settings and still saw the same decrease in the result when the "Performance" settings was used.

I think the only explanation is that this is a nVidia device driver bug / quirk for the GTX 1060 card.

[Roberto F Rossi]

When I had a gtx 960 amp! from zotac with windows 10, I had the same issue.

Its not like the graphics card loses power.... the fact is that it uses less than it has, saving power (no matter what the options you use) and I dont know why.

GPU USAGE GTX 960/1060 ZOTAC AMP! WINDOWS 10 (I had both cards from the same manufacturer) performance test 9, amd processor, pci-e 2.0 x16 slot.
dx 9 complex - performance 60% GPU usage - balanced 85% gpu usage, quality ~~near balanced, but 1-2 fps lower.
dx 10 - 91-97% gpu usage (using 100% gpu a gtx 1060 wins a 980)
dx 11 - variable from 85%+, finishing with 99% gpu usage
dx 12 - my rivatuner (msi afterburner) do not work with dx 12 for me to know the real gpu usage
dx compute - some parts work with rivatuner statistics server (on screen display) and I can see a high gpu usage

[David (PassMark)]

The DX9 test runs at the lowest resolution of the four 3D tests. So it isn't surprising that the GPU load is a bit lower (and the dependency on CPU performance is higher).