Directx weirdness

[David (PassMark)]

Ironically, our first answer over a month ago, linked to the solution.

Thanks for following up in any case.

[Canniballistic]

I don't know what the cause is. But was taking the holistic approach. If (at least) two things are wrong, then maybe they have the same cause.

I worked out what my problem was.

My card was in a PCIe x8 slot instead of my x16, but that confuses me as to why there was no change in the dx11 result while the others were severely lower.

Maybe it shows an issue with the test or maybe theres an explanation?

Either way thanks for the help and hopefully this helps anyone else who makes the same silly mistake I did.

[David (PassMark)]

I don't know what the cause is. But was taking the holistic approach. If (at least) two things are wrong, then maybe they have the same cause.

[Canniballistic]

And what are your CPU, RAM results and RAM Qty and type?

If your CPU prime number results are down, then maybe it is slow RAM.

My CPU results were fine except for the prime number. I compared it to results from others with the same CPU and it seemed fine.

I have a dual 8GB of DDR3.

Honestly not too fussed about the low prime numbers unless I'm ignorant and that shows some sort of issue. My main concern is the video card results.

[David (PassMark)]

And what are your CPU, RAM results and RAM Qty and type?

If your CPU prime number results are down, then maybe it is slow RAM.

[Canniballistic]

And what hardware do you have?

3570k
gtx 1070
rest is run of the mill and all HDD's, plenty of ram and running on win7.

[David (PassMark)]

And what hardware do you have?

[Canniballistic]

And what are the actual results?

DX9

• I'm getting 57 fps stock and no improvement with OC
• My baselines range from 161 to 202 fps

DX10

• 183 fps stock with no noticeable improvement OC
• Baselines range from 228 to 279 fps

DX11

• I'm getting 190 fps and 272 OC
• Baselines are 265 to 284 fps

GPU Compute

• I've got 5626 stock and 6010 OC
• Baselines run from 6575 to 7413

CPU benchmarks are comparable except for prime numbers where there is a sizeable performance drop.

[David (PassMark)]

And what are the actual results?

[Canniballistic]

Canniballistic,

See Tim's initial post above for thing to initially look at.

Thanks.

Yeah I have done a bit of research into it and I believe I've ruled out drivers, overclocking, CPU bottle necking and my monitor from being the cause.

[David (PassMark)]

Canniballistic,

See Tim's initial post above for thing to initially look at.

[Canniballistic]

I'm having nearly the exact same experience.

I'm using very similar baselines compared to my own system so they make me think theres something wrong with my card or software and not the GTX 10xx series in general.

In practice as well the card seems to be under performing so I would love to find out what the issue is.

[Avatarian]

The Refresh rate is 60hz so I don't think that is it, and I'm using the current driver. My guess would be according to the other post that there is something about the 10 series that makes it perform lower on DX9 and DX10 tests, I'm not sure this is on Nvidia side which would be bad, or if this is just a problem with your test. Either way thank you so much for the help and I'd love to know if you guys ever get to the bottom of this.

[David (PassMark)]

There is another post here with a similar low DX9 scores.
What is the refresh rate of your monitor/TV?
What video card device driver version are you using?

[Avatarian]

Does your monitor have freesync/G-Sync? As these have been seen to cap frame rates.

No, it is a tv screen, but it doesn't seem to affect the other tests. Could any nvidia settings be only affecting the DX9 test. It isn't too important at this point, I won't need more than 100 fps on DX9, but I want to make sure there isn't an underlying problem.