GTX 1080 bottlenecked by cpu?

[commonon]

Picked up a GTX 1080 and it's been underperforming pretty badly on most fronts, thought it might have been because of a too low psu but now I'm on a 750W psu and it's still exceptionally low on 3dmark. With 16GB of ram, I'm assuming that the next issue would be my CPU? It scored ~5500 on 3dmark, with up to date drivers. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

specs:
16gb DDR2 RAM
i5-4460 3.20 GHz CPU
GTX 1080 GPU
Corsair CX750 PSU
Win10

let me know if you need more info

 

[Samer1970]

Which cpu ?

 

[madmatt30]

What's your CPU??

 

[InvalidError]

Regardless of how fast your CPU is, there will always be scenarios where the CPU is still the bottleneck and regardless of how fast your GPU(s) is/are, there will always be scenarios where the GPU will be the bottleneck. There always is a bottleneck. The name of the "no bottleneck" game is to make the bottlenecks happen beyond the performance level you care about.

 

[commonon]

Regardless of how fast your CPU is, there will always be scenarios where the CPU is still the bottleneck and regardless of how fast your GPU(s) is/are, there will always be scenarios where the GPU will be the bottleneck. There always is a bottleneck. The name of the "no bottleneck" game is to make the bottlenecks happen beyond the performance level you care about.

absolutely! I guess at this point I'm trying to get the 1080 to run at the level I've seen benchmarked and figured the cpu was the issue, bottleneck might not have been the best word

 

[commonon]

added my specs to the op, it's an i5-4460 3.20 GHz CPU

 

[madmatt30]

What resolution screen are you running ??

If its 1080p those scores are incredibly low, 1440p still low.

To put in perspective I'm getting 8000+ with a 970 at 1080p with an fx CPU.

 

[commonon]

this is on 1080. I've reinstalled drivers with ddu to no avail, if the cpu isn't the issue then I have to assume that the issue is the gpu, but I also know very little about the hardware which is why I came here

 

[madmatt30]

You should be trippling that score at least , did you have an amd GPU installed prior to this ??

 

[commonon]

Previous was a GTX 970, no issues at all

 

[madmatt30]

Did you ever run 3d mark with the 970 ?? If so what were the scores ??

 

[commonon]

I haven't, let me switch them out and try now. should have a response in ~15 minutes

 

[madmatt30]

You want to be listing your physics(cpu), GPU, & total scores separately mate.

That's going to let us know exactly where the problem lies.

 

[commonon]

or not! tried to switch out the gpu and the tab to push out the gpu busted off of my ~6 month old motherboard. if anyone has any idea how to fix this your help would be appreciated, because the most appealing option atm is throwing this shit into a lake: http://imgur.com/9rV4Q9J

 

[commonon]

also misclicked and chose old mates answer as the solution, so if someone could either tell me how to fix that or fix that, that'd be gre

 

[madmatt30]

^ that upvote was by mistake mate.

Tab locks the GPU in, if its snapped it's not great but not the end of the world because its not strictly a necessity just a safety measure.

 

[commonon]

these are the results from the 3dmark tests for both cards:
http://i.imgur.com/m6lyUcH.png
http://i.imgur.com/wFxH6nf.png

 

[madmatt30]

Ahh time spy, I assumed firestrike scores mate.

The scores are being dragged down a bit by your CPU.
I doubt it'll matter in real world gaming.

The GPU score is about right for stock clocks mate from what I've seen
You'll see bigger scores from other people but most are running k series CPU's at 4ghz+ and with over clocks on the 1080.