Question Graphics card upgrade seems to be worse

[Deccy1990]

I have just upgrade from a RTX 2080 to a 5070TI and have got the card in the machine but when running games it seems to be worse than my previous card. The games keep gittering and dropping to 20-30 fps and I'm not sure what is causing this. I have removed the old drivers from the machine and done a clean install of the Nvidia drivers but this doesn't seem to have helped at all. I have tried running multiple different games like hell divers 2, POE2, Elden Ring but they all seem to struggle. Any help would be much appreciated.

Tech Power up image for specs

https://imgur.com/a/IZLj8Xm

View: https://imgur.com/a/IZLj8Xm


PC Specs

I9 9900k CPU 3.6 GHZ 8 Core Processor
32gb Ram
Asus ROG Mazimus XI Hero
G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600
Corsair AX1500i 240V 1500 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

 

[beyondlogic]

I have just upgrade from a RTX 2080 to a 5070TI and have got the card in the machine but when running games it seems to be worse than my previous card. The games keep gittering and dropping to 20-30 fps and I'm not sure what is causing this. I have removed the old drivers from the machine and done a clean install of the Nvidia drivers but this doesn't seem to have helped at all. I have tried running multiple different games like hell divers 2, POE2, Elden Ring but they all seem to struggle. Any help would be much appreciated.

Tech Power up image for specs

https://imgur.com/a/IZLj8Xm

View: https://imgur.com/a/IZLj8Xm


PC Specs

I9 9900k CPU 3.6 GHZ 8 Core Processor
32gb Ram
Asus ROG Mazimus XI Hero
G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600
Corsair AX1500i 240V 1500 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

make and model of 5070 ti how many cables to psu etc.

 

[JayGau]

I'm waiting for the usual "reinstall Windows" comment. But seriously, this could be anything like corrupted driver, bad power connections or even a defective card. But first thing that comes to my mind is this: did you have a GPU management software running before and after you switched the cards? Like MSI Afterburner? This could do very bad.

How does it do in benchmarks like Time Spy? What is the GPU load when you run the games? At what resolution are you playing? If you were up to date with the Nvidia GeForce One driver before swicthing cards it should have worked out of the the box, but if you had something like MSI Afterburner running with some overclock it could have crippled your new card (especially if you reinstalled the driver with the software running in background). In that case you would have to uninstall/reinstall both the software and the drivers.

Did you try to put back the old card to see if it performs as before?

 

[ohio_buckeye]

What resolution are you at? I wonder if the cpu might be holding back that new card.

 

[ARICH5]

What resolution are you at? I wonder if the cpu might be holding back that new card.

That's right. The op should do a CPU upgrade for a fps boost. The GPU is eye candy graphics. I can have a i3 and a 5090 and only get 10 fps.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

Unfortunately the op is top of the line on their platform so at this point.

 

[Deccy1990]

Thanks for your guys advise, the card is MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio OC Plus 16GB GDDR7 PCI-Express Graphics Card. It has 3 cables that go from the PSU into a splitter cable that then plugs into the graphics card, this is the first time I have seen this type of cable. I don't run anything like MSI after burner. My screen resolution is 2560 x 1440. I tried call of duty out for this test and the CPU is sitting at 93 - 97% where as the GPU is sitting at like 8%. Not sure if this seems right or not. Do you think this could be pointing to the CPU is too outdated? I am going to take the pc apart again and check that there are no loose cables but I'm a bit stuck wondering if the best option would be to take it to a PC specialist to look at what's going on.

 

[Deccy1990]

Just to add to this a bit more I checked the temps also and getting the following.

https://imgur.com/a/pBmq4ag

View: https://imgur.com/a/pBmq4ag

https://imgur.com/a/qIAfuNZ

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

 

[falcon291]

Your CPU is old and it will have performance issues. I replace my 9700K 2 years ago, and it helped me a lot to gain FPS.

But still 10 fps is very much questionable. It should not be like that. Did you try different graphic settings? I would try that, if it does not work, unfortunately you will need to reinstall Windows.

I also play in QHD resolution with Nvidia recommended settings. 13900KF and RTX 3070, 32 MB of RAM. My fps is slightly above 100 on average, fluctuating between 90 to 120. For my case, the GPU is the limiting factor, but I can increase the fps slightly by selecting less ambitious setting. My monitor is 120 Hz thus any upgrade means, upgrading both my monitor and GPU, and it would be expensive for me for the moment.