FPS while gaming?

[JonnyLo]

Hi,
I am curious about getting more FPS while playing games. i am not an overclocker or whiz when it comes to things like that but I am a little confused at how people get FPS up in the 80-120 range? i have an EVGA 980 sc card and, after comparing it to many other cards on various benchmark and performance sights, i have only seen it equal if not surpass GTX 1070 while running many different games. Lately I have been back in to GTA 5 online and Userbenchmark shows my card to average 83 FPS on that game. Here is where my real question is. The game runs at 60 FPS at 1280x768 with normal settings, this is only using half of the cards resources and from the research i have done i should be able to at least run settings on ultra and pull a higher frame rate, it seems like no matter what i do i can't get the FPS to go over 60 like it just hits a wall there and stops. Like I said i am not an expert by any means but i feel like something is holding the card back. Any help is appreciated! TIA

 

[rgd1101]

might be the cpu? what is the temp and usage on the cpu?

 

[Atomicdonut17]

GeForce Experience, or GTA 5 itself, may be limiting the amount of frames to that which your monitor's refresh rate puts out. For example, if your monitor has a 60Hz refresh rate, it will only put out 60 frames per second, which makes it utterly useless to try and have more than 60 frames because you won't see them. So, if you had a monitor over 60Hz, (mine is 75, so with DisplayPort, I see 75 frames) you'll have a visible advantage for rendering more than 60 frames per second. That depends on the refresh rate of your monitor. Your programs, whichever run the card's utilization, will determine how much is used to reach the maximum refresh rate, and only use that much. Otherwise, it becomes useless to render more than 60 frames since you don't actually SEE more than 60.

 

[Dugimodo]

Vsync limits your FPS to the monitor refresh rate to make a smoother looking image, turning it off either in game or in the Nvida software (depending where it's set in the first place) will allow higher framerates but may reduce image quality. Also the 980 performs at the same level as a 1060, the 1070 is a much more powerful card.

For the most part this doesn't really matter, if your games play smoothly that's all that really matters.

 

[JonnyLo]

might be the cpu? what is the temp and usage on the cpu?

Temp is running min 18.0c and max 74.0c, I know the FX chips run hot though and it is averaging in the 40-50c range. The usage is hanging pretty steady between 48 & 50%. I am using cpu-z to get these numbers. Like i said i am no expert but looking at these numbers i should have alot more headroom for better FPS. Also with the graphics settings I am using 2571 of 4095 MB of the card, according to GTA display setting menu. it has gotten up as high as 62 FPS... The game looks good at 60 FPS and i can play it with that framerate without much issue (targeting etc.) but I just don't understand how the average framerate for this game is 83 FPS with ultra settings and I am pretty much grounded at 60?

 

[JonnyLo]

I am using a Samsung 32" television for a monitor and yes the max refresh rate is 60Hz. Now I understand. Thank you all for the input! appreciate it!