1080ti: Not very impressed.....

[Storx]

I just upgraded from AMD R9 390 to the new GTX 1080ti and im not sure if i have a driver issue going on, but i have found that the smoothness of the game play is very stuttery and choppy at times. I ran heavenly benchmark and my results were lackluster at 48.3fps @4k.....

I also feel like the smoothness of the game play with my favorite game is off some, i get random pausing with graphics going from smooth to a few seconds of choppy, then back to smooth....as well seem to get no more fps @ 4k as my old R9 390 gave me..

 

[Jester Maroc]

Have you tried lowering the GPU load in order to make sure the issue is GPU related?

I would suggest lowering your resolution to 1080p, make sure Vsync is on, and then see if there are still dips in your games. If you still experience stuttery or choppy gameplay then it is likely that the problem is CPU (or something other than GPU) related.

Also, make sure you have MSI afterburner or another monitoring application running to see where the bottleneck is happening. Afterburner will show you your GPU's processor load, memory load, etc, and it will do the same for you CPU and RAM. Monitoring those will help you identify the cause of these performance dips in your system.

It will also nicely graph your temps for you as high temps on the Founder's Edition has led to throttling with some reviewers.

 

[sizzling]

Try using DDU to completely remove your driver and then reinstall the latest driver again. Could be a corrupt driver especially as you have gone from AMD to Nvidia.

 

[RCFProd]

Which exact Heaven benchmark settings did you use?

Did you check CPU and GPU usage in the games you were stuttering with?

How have you removed old AMD drivers prior to installing new Nvidia drivers?

 

[ahoj__]

its simple; any i5 cant offer what youre trying to achieve with the 1080ti at any resolution from 720p to 4k

 

[RobCrezz]

Try cranking that overclock up on your 3570k, 4.2Ghz is pretty mild, you should be able to get a bit more.

 

[Storx]

its simple; any i5 cant offer what youre trying to achieve with the 1080ti at any resolution from 720p to 4k

i can see the i5 being a little out dated, but does not account for lower FPS in the same games with untouched graphic settings between GPU's, i had smoother and slightly higher FPS with my old R9 390 in the games i play....that would be very sad if the new 1080ti is tasking my CPU more to achieve less GPU performance than my old R9 390, i did log the 3 games i play normally last night for a few minutes in after burner the highest the CPU's got up to during game play was 78% except during loading menu's which it would hit 100% for a split second while the GPU dropped to 0 for a split second.
I did notice that NONE of the games i play made the GPU usage 100% which confuses me, i was averaging between 38-55 FPS while the GPU load would max out at like 63%...
The only time i could get the GPU usage to hit 100% was during benchmarking... here was the benchmark i ran after running DDU to clean the system of old drivers...

 

[Storx]

Try cranking that overclock up on your 3570k, 4.2Ghz is pretty mild, you should be able to get a bit more.

Unfortunately voltage is not adjustable on my motherboard(Did not know this when i bought the MB/CPU combo from Newegg 5 years ago), so 4.2 was the highest i could go without upping the voltage, i could do 4.3 and it would boot, but i would get random freezes or errors so i backed to 4.2... i have been holding out on upgrading the CPU and motherboard because my CPU has never really gone above 80% in any game i play so figured it was plenty powerful enough still and i dont do any kind of rendering or such that needs the extra power of a newer CPU...

 

[RobCrezz]

Oh bummer. Yeah mostly that should have been enough, its just the the 1080 ti is such a fast card, it needs a fast CPU to keep up.

That said, you should still be seeing much faster performance than your previous 390.

If it was me, I would be trying a clean windows/driver installation from scratch to rule out any software/driver issue.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

You haven't mentioned which games you're playing. Right away however, 2 possibilities come to mind:

Your games could be limited by 1 or 2 heavy threads, so despite not hitting full usage of the CPU, you are still bottlenecking there.

Your games could be titles that run better on AMD hardware than NVIDIA hardware.