[SOLVED] Brand New 3080 Stuck at 480mhz core clock. 8 FPS on Furmark FHD.

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Frooz

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Hello,

I just bought a new 3080 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N3080AORUSX-WB-10GD-rev-20#kf) to replace my 2070. Upon installation I also did a clean wipe of all drives and a fresh install of windows (now windows 11 not by choice). After updating all the drivers to the newest possible, I downloaded a couple games to play with friends first of which was CSGO. I couldn't get more than 60 fps on a 720p resolution. I have already uninstalled the drivers using DDU in safe mode and installing the newest drivers again. I downloaded and ran MSI Afterburner and it says that the GPU is currently running a core clock speed of 480mhz and a temperature of 28 Celsius which never change no matter what happens . Just to try and see if it would fix it, I upped the core clock with +300 and tried running the FurMark benchmark to see if it would improve. I got a solid score of max 8 fps.

After this and plenty of googling, I couldn't find anyone with a similar issue. I then proceeded to download GPU-Z and check what that has to say. It displays the correct GPU Clock on the main screen of 1440mhz but if I click on the sensors tab, everything is blank.

View: https://imgur.com/a/t28ctpW


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 
Solution
The riser cable is connected to slot 1.

I updated the gpu drivers to 512.95 after that test to the most recent according to the NVIDIA Driver website. Here is the result of that test: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/53042977

The GPU doesnt even show up.

Here is the GPU-Z output: View: https://imgur.com/a/nNnKy4l

It shows it operating at 1.1. Also, all the missing information is of concern.

You need to try with the card connected directly to motherboard without riser cable.

Frooz

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Next plan is then eliminating the riser cable as an issue and directly plugging the gpu into the mobo.

Just a little update. Finally got around to re tubing the system and it works completely fine now without the riser cable. Can’t believe I missed that as an issue. Thank you all for your input and diagnostics!
 
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