Average GTX 970 Fire Strike score

[Arkiece]

Just wondering what I should be scoring with a GTX 970 for graphics on 3DMark Fire Strike, cause I want to make sure my set up is working ok. I got an 11775 in graphics with the card, paired with an FX-4300. Some GTX 970 results I've looked up have been around 13000, but they were paired with i5s. So is my cpu bottlenecking my card in the test, could the results I looked up be overclocked, or could it be a problem unique to my card? Just curious.

P.S. I know my cpu is going to bottleneck in actual usage and games, I'm curious if this test would be affected by it or if it individually tests/rates the components.

 

[thor220]

Not only is your CPU bottlenecking but 3DMark is notoriously bad with AMD processors. They were accused of using special Intel compilers that slow down AMD code.

Just use fraps to compare in game FPS. You should be loosing 9 FPS on average compared to an i5 4670K.

 

[neieus]

I agree your CPU is a bottleneck but I can't speak much on the 3DMark comparison. So with that being said you should use Fraps or some other tool to compare your performance with. I've found that I'm able to achieve the same or better performance as the Intel CPU's when comparing to online posted benchmarks.