Hi everyone, please help me out if you know something about this!
I bought a GTX980 Ti in January and of course I've done a lot of benchmarking back then to see how awesome it is. For more details, it is the MSI Twin Frozr model with highest "guaranteed" clock speed. Unfortunately I don't keep tabs about those benchmarks as much as I should, and at this point my ONLY reference is the saved 3D Mark record ran in January.
I haven't used it a lot because current job is very demanding, and I've ran more tests on it then use it to game. When I do game it's some online multiplayers which aren't the most demanding, although I do tend to leave my OC up whenever gaming.
Now in simply 4 months time. My GPU performance degraded 5-10% according to 3Dmark tests, and with the exact same OC (you can see my GPU clock speed, memory OC, in the screenshot below).
I ran multiple times to make sure it isn't a inconsistency issue, and they fluctuated a little bit but never got less than 5% decrease, and this is the worst run.
To make the result even more consistent. I had 3 OC settings, which push the performance to 3 different level, with all consistent degradation across the board. AKA at low OC, my current result is 5-10% worse than in January, so is mid OC, and at high OC. There isn't anything funky going on pushing it sofly or to its limit.
I honestly find it hard to believe this is natural, but I've tried as hard as I can to eliminate external factors. I have dual screens, but I'm positive I had the other screen on in my January test as well. I don't have any other weird apps running in the background, and quite honestly whatever that's going on now was going on back then. Therefore if I try to remove all of them it only makes it a worse comparison?
The only concerning factor that I want to address is that because I haven't benchmark in a long time, my initial plan wasn't to compare it to January, but to simply test its limit OC as I've heard G1s can easily do 1500MHz+, mine indeed could not and crashed hard at 1550MHz. It was after this I thought to do normal testing and compared them to old result.
I build and test computer for quite some time now, yet I never keep track of things very well so despite the experience I have no idea if that's something to be expected. As far as I used to know, a crash by barely pushing a GPU over its limit does little to no damage to the card; and I did this once. Also with my usage it's hard to see anything else causing this in this amount of time. I do OC it to play some not-even-demanding games quite a bit, but it is at a OC range where it's stable and never crashed.
All ears for what anyone think might be causing this?
I bought a GTX980 Ti in January and of course I've done a lot of benchmarking back then to see how awesome it is. For more details, it is the MSI Twin Frozr model with highest "guaranteed" clock speed. Unfortunately I don't keep tabs about those benchmarks as much as I should, and at this point my ONLY reference is the saved 3D Mark record ran in January.
I haven't used it a lot because current job is very demanding, and I've ran more tests on it then use it to game. When I do game it's some online multiplayers which aren't the most demanding, although I do tend to leave my OC up whenever gaming.
Now in simply 4 months time. My GPU performance degraded 5-10% according to 3Dmark tests, and with the exact same OC (you can see my GPU clock speed, memory OC, in the screenshot below).
I ran multiple times to make sure it isn't a inconsistency issue, and they fluctuated a little bit but never got less than 5% decrease, and this is the worst run.
To make the result even more consistent. I had 3 OC settings, which push the performance to 3 different level, with all consistent degradation across the board. AKA at low OC, my current result is 5-10% worse than in January, so is mid OC, and at high OC. There isn't anything funky going on pushing it sofly or to its limit.
I honestly find it hard to believe this is natural, but I've tried as hard as I can to eliminate external factors. I have dual screens, but I'm positive I had the other screen on in my January test as well. I don't have any other weird apps running in the background, and quite honestly whatever that's going on now was going on back then. Therefore if I try to remove all of them it only makes it a worse comparison?
The only concerning factor that I want to address is that because I haven't benchmark in a long time, my initial plan wasn't to compare it to January, but to simply test its limit OC as I've heard G1s can easily do 1500MHz+, mine indeed could not and crashed hard at 1550MHz. It was after this I thought to do normal testing and compared them to old result.
I build and test computer for quite some time now, yet I never keep track of things very well so despite the experience I have no idea if that's something to be expected. As far as I used to know, a crash by barely pushing a GPU over its limit does little to no damage to the card; and I did this once. Also with my usage it's hard to see anything else causing this in this amount of time. I do OC it to play some not-even-demanding games quite a bit, but it is at a OC range where it's stable and never crashed.
All ears for what anyone think might be causing this?
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