GPU shown to be underperforming in DIrectX 9

[Anorilous]

Benchmark is accurate.
But there are many many factors that can effect the result. And as you can see from the distribution graph you end up with a very wide spread in the real world.

Here are a few (these are just examples, I don't really know why your setup is 10% below average.
- Device driver version differences.
- Poor cooling
- Wrong PCIe slot
- Monitor settings and refresh rates
- Device driver settings (quality settings overrides and again refresh rates)
- Weak CPU and or main RAM relative to the GPU
- Background software or gaming overlay or streaming software
- etc, etc....

Thanks for the reply. Cooling is fine while gaming and gpu stress tests, pcie slot is the correct one and I think if it wasn't it would be very obvious. I don't know how monitor settings could affect dx9 results specifically, i will try setting it to 60hz and re-doing it. I have a ryzen 5 7600 cpu and 32gb ram @6000mhz cl30 and the only active application during the benchmark was the Nvidia app. I could also see a Device driver version difference being possible, maybe the worsened dx9 performance in one of their recent updates, who knows.

[David (PassMark)]

Benchmark is accurate.
But there are many many factors that can effect the result. And as you can see from the distribution graph you end up with a very wide spread in the real world.

Here are a few (these are just examples, I don't really know why your setup is 10% below average.
- Device driver version differences.
- Poor cooling
- Wrong PCIe slot
- Monitor settings and refresh rates
- Device driver settings (quality settings overrides and again refresh rates)
- Weak CPU and or main RAM relative to the GPU
- Background software or gaming overlay or streaming software
- etc, etc....

[Anorilous]

As you can see in the images, the overall result is above average for the 4070 Super but specifically in dx9 only it is shown to be somewhat underperforming. Obviously I don't really care for top notch performance in dx9 applications but i'm still curious if this is just an error in the benchmark or a possible cause of concern. The result is very consistent and i don't experience any GPU related issues in any applications