Hello, I have been using a gtx 780 FTW edition (model 03G-P4-3784-KR) for about 5 months now. It was a very large investment, and I expected a very large improvement while playing games like battlefield 4 over my old 6870 that I replaced. Yes I did get a very large improvement (Averaging around 50 fps on ultra 1080p) but not as much as I expected for a 500 dollar card at the time. But with a couple of Google searches I came to the conclusion that maybe I had just had my hopes too high and that I was actually getting the typical performance. It is October now and the 900 series has just been released. Currently I am running on my Asrock Z77 Motherboard (Z77 Pro4) using an i5 3570k clocked at 4.2 GHz using a hyper 212 that keeps the temps under control. I have 16 gigs of DDR3 Dual channel ram running at 667 MHz, as well as my graphics card (the 780) all powered by my OCZ power supply (Model OCZ-ZS750W). My friend who is running his new gtx 970 (GTX 970 GAMING 4G) paired with a i5 4670k clocked at 4 GHZ with his msi motherboard (model B85-G41) and corsair Vengeance (model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B) 16 gigs of ram powered by the same power supply as above. We decided to test our fps on Battlefield 4 multiplayer and the differences were ridiculous. We both used fraps to monitor our fps and both monitored our temps and clock speeds with our own programs (me using the EVGA Precision). My power was up to almost 100% and the gpu clock was at around 1100, his being clocked around 1300. Although yes his is newer hardware, I was averaging around 45-60 fps while he was averaging around 85-110. First thing I thought was that I had a vsync thing turned on somewhere which I did not, and we even went into out Nvidia settings and compared and made sure we had the exact same settings. But still even after that he was averaging around 30+ more fps than I was. Upon googling more, seeing youtube videos people were receiving much more fps than my average with the same specs at 1080p gaming. I decided to run a couple of benchmarks using other programs one being 3d mark and the other being catzilla (720p on catzilla). He tested his using catzilla and received a score 23865 (http://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=350837). But when I tested I received just over 8300(http://www.catzilla.com/showresult?lp=350839 sorry if you have to log in). I did run one more test using 3d mark (http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4250079?). These results say that everything is running perfectly fine, (which I know is incorrect). I contacted EVGA support asking what I could do and they responded saying I could try the other bios setting on the graphics card. I tried it out, and is the current graphics bios I am running on, it gave me a slight increase in performance but the 3d mark benchmark, catzilla benchmark and various game tests came up relatively close with only a few fps/score performance. And obviously through all this testing I tried all the basic fixes including things like uninstalling all drivers before getting a new card (I used a drive uninstaller and made sure everything was clean). My bios is updated and my Window 7 64bit is updated. Because of everything I have tried, it makes me think that it could possibly be a hardware fault, but I’m not sure what could be the culprit. I’m up for trying many things and if I missed anything that could potentially help out, don't hesitate to tell me what to add. But in summary my question is, what is holding my card back or is it just the card itself?
By the way, If this is in the wrong area, I apologize this is my first post I have ever made on here. Thanks for the help everyone.
By the way, If this is in the wrong area, I apologize this is my first post I have ever made on here. Thanks for the help everyone.
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