Gtx 970 Firestrike scores are low

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So I just recently received a gtx 970 and I ran it through Firestrike to see what score it would get. Well it wasn't pretty. If you look at other people's results you will see that most of them are at least over 10,000. But mine only got 8,000, which is worse than the 780, I think.
I'm very disappointed. I don't know what could be causing this. There shouldn't be any bottlenecks, THAT BAD at least. I'll post my specs at the bottom. Is my card defective? Did I just get the bad one out of the bunch?
But there's no coil whine like others have noted, surprisingly.
I should also note that before I made a custom fan profile in MSI afterburner, my idle temps were 50-60c and the load temps were 80c.
It's not due to thermal throttling though, the temps never go over 70 now.
I know it's the card for sure, unless a different part is for some reason limiting it.
According to other peoples scores an intel core i5 2500k gets a physics score of 7970 in Firestrike, and with that CPU the gtx 970 gets a graphics score of 13733. Total score is 10,687
My FX 8350 gets a physics score of 8,295and my GPU gets a graphics score of 11,108 which is about 2,000 under. Total score is 8,439.
Any helpful info would be appreciated, thanks.
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.3 Ghz
GPU: EVGA GTX 970 super clocked ACX 2.0
RAM:14gb 1700 MHz
Motherboard: MSI 970a g46
PSU: Corsair GS 600
Case: Apevia X Dreamer 4
My fire strike score:www.3dmark.com/3dm/4572500
Other fire strike score:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4090282
 
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Your results are only slightly lower than expected.
A lot of Firestrike results are with overclocked CPU-s and GPU. Sometimes extremely OC-ed.
AMD FX-8350 is pushed to over 5 GHZ, the 970 - to 1350 core clock.
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did you do a complete uninstall and reinstall of drivers? if not go do that by following this link: http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers#post15432476 then re-test. also play around with clocks, if you havn't overvolted with the included tool then try bumping it up slowly. if doing all of this doesn't help it could just be a bad benching card, but as long as games aren't effected i wouldn't be worried.
 
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I have an FX 8320 @ 3.8 ghz
8gb ram
MSI GTX 970 gaming

and my FIRESTRIKE result is 8134

so I think your score is ok

My HEAVEN score is 1742


I hope it help you.

I don`t think are bad.
 
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How in the world did you get 1742 score on heaven?? I got msi 970 with I5 3570k and got 1506 and thats after +200mhz overclock.
 
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Hey bud 780 score of 8600 is reference score at reference clocks. and 970's with over 10 k score is maxed overclocked. my 780 gets 11007 score single and 17487 sli. So maybe you should pay more attention to the reviews you read and make sure all the cards are overclocked and what clocks they are on. Also check for drivers they using in each card and complete rig. if this info is not given than you can take the numbers you see with a grain of salt

Oh and lets not forget Maxwells get slayed by heaven or valley benchmark. But its only bcz of the massive tessellation that the 256-bit bandwith of theirs can not handle. Other words not many games out there that use that kind of tessellation so throw your 970/980 heaven scores out the window. they do much better in almost all games than they would in Heaven/valley.

The cpu also holding you back some 5-10 % but i dont think its enough for you to throw it away. Also windows 8 seems to have advantage over win 7 in benchmarks like 3dmark. And lastly i was only getting 9500 ish single firestrike score with my 780... until i disabled all pcie express power management saving options in bios. It was like 4 different things i had to change in bios to get 1100 + score. Your bios would be different so look into it
 
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I didn't hit 10k until I OC'd my i5-4690k to 4.3 and my 970 gtx to +120 core and +400 mem. Stock CPU score was definitely lower, but only by a few hundred.

UPDATE: by upping 970 core to +130, I got 10127 as my score. Seems like upping CPU is about 1mhz:1 3dmark point. Upping GPU core clock is more like 1 mhz:10-15 3dmark points.
 
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I found it a lot easier (and cheaper) to just go Asus R9 280 Crossfire. Quiet & cool; with great reliability.
But it is not the best option for everyone I agree.

10392 Fire Strike
12/17/14 1:58:24 AM
Intel Core i5-4570S
Details
AMD Radeon R9 280

All at stock.
Crossfire; was less than the price of a single 970. No doubt in 3 years these will all be considered `noddy cards`.
 
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Power consumption is higher on just one 280 vs 970, let alone 2. And reliability becomes a factor when you have 2 devices instead of one, even if their design is great. The cheapest two 280s AFTER rebate is actually the same price that my 970 was (we all know how the rebate process goes... and I got far cry 4 for free.) I won't sweat it for a 200 difference in 3d mark score.
 
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So I use a 700W Platinum PSU. I save energy with that via efficiency
The cards run with no problems. I find ASUS to be uber-reliable.

Where I live, I had enough left over to pre-order The Witcher 3
 
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What you need to do is overclock your cpu as high as you can adjust your voltages so you can increase your ht and nb link speeds to 2600mhz each I can send a screen shot of my bios settings I'm running a fx8100 2.8ghz clocked to 4400 ghz on liquid cooling, I score 9234 on firestrike with a g1 970.
 
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what was your core clock of the gpu itself?
 
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I know this is a rather old question so if i don't get an answer I understand. I'm having the same problem but my score is 903. I repeated heaven like 10 times and I still get around 900 score. I contacted EVGA about this issue and about the step up program if I could trade my less than 3 month old 970 ftw+ card for the new 1070 that will be out in just a couple days. They gave me some things to try like re seating the graphics card, putting it in another computer, doing a clean uninstall of the drivers using a program in safe mode and getting rid of the Vulcan drivers also. Then restarting windows and letting geforce experience install the latest drivers. I did everything but putting it into another computer because I don't have another computer to try that part, But everything else never helped. Then they wanted my to run firestrike and send them the results so they can take a look at my issue. I have yet to do that but I will soon. But before I do that I have been looking for anything off the net that may point me in the right direction first. I just hope I can find something out quickly. Either that or I will have to RMA it back to EVGA and ask for the 1070 in return. The 1070 costs less by about $30, so I'm hoping them will say yes on that. But until then I wonder if anyone can help me find out if it's my 970 or my computer that's the problem. Sounds bad but I hope it's the graphics card, they would be more than willing to replace it if it is.

So you know my 903 heaven score, and when I play WoW my top fps is like 45-62 and sometimes it dips all the way down to 10fps out in the wild. And during raids I get 1fps randomly. I really only play WoW at the moment so that's the only game I know for sure that this problem is killing my game play. I'm not overclocked and my temps on the cpu never gets all that high because I'm water cooled. And the graphics card stays below 60-75 because at the moment I've got 7 case fans running to keep it cool. Yes it sounds like it's about ready to fly away. I use headphones so I never hear it when I'm playing my game.

Anyway my specs are
Windows 10 home premium.
asrock 970 extreme 4 motherboard
FX8350
Corsair h90 water cooler
EVGA 970 ftw+ newest driver 368.22
16gb 1866 gskill memory
256 SSD
1 TB storage drive
EVGA 1000GQ powersuply
Generic mouse and keyboard. And by generic, I mean cheap
I run 7 case fans to make sure it's not a heat issue
Right now I'm sitting at a cpu temp of 48c and a gpu temp of 38c . I don't think it's a heat issue.

Any help with my issue would be appreciated.
 
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