[SOLVED] GPU drops performance after a sesion of full load

[AlwaysReaper]

I benchmark my GPU lately before and after playing something.

I get about 2% worse scores when benchmarking after i've finished playing BL3 for 2hrs. Also if i don't use my gpu for about 4 days it gets again better benchmark results(better than benchmarks right after booting up not after playing at full load). Is this normal?

 

[sizzling]

My guess here is heat. Benchmarking once the cpu and gpu are already hot probably results in slightly slower boost speeds in the early part of the benchmark. A 2% variance is nothing I would worry about.