Just finished building my mini ITX PC, moved nearly all components into this new case. One of them was a GTX 980. I used to get great scores on benchmarks and fps' on games as expected from a 980. But as soon as I tried to benchmark the same card in my new rig, it is under performing so much that is may even be beaten by a 960.
Same power supply. Same CPU. Same SSD. Much better cooling. Most up to date drivers. Only mobo changes, but the lane is PCIE 3.0 x16, just like my ATX board. The GPU has 2 PCIE 6 pin connectors properly connected.
This was my score on Unigine Heaven a week back.
unigine heaven previous score
And now I am getting 40fps average, with max of 60fps. And a Unigine heaven score of around 1050.
I have the EVGA Superclocked 980 edition, so core clock is 1266, boost to 1367. Memory of 1753Mhz.
When running the benchmark, GPU usage is 96%-100%. Core clock target is reached. And temps are fantastic at 70 degrees Celsius. Fan speed isn't that high too.
So what could be the problem, I even reset windows 10 64bit to make sure I start afresh. (also made sure to disable integrated intel gpu in bios). (and made sure all settings were the same as before as shown in image).
Same power supply. Same CPU. Same SSD. Much better cooling. Most up to date drivers. Only mobo changes, but the lane is PCIE 3.0 x16, just like my ATX board. The GPU has 2 PCIE 6 pin connectors properly connected.
This was my score on Unigine Heaven a week back.
And now I am getting 40fps average, with max of 60fps. And a Unigine heaven score of around 1050.
I have the EVGA Superclocked 980 edition, so core clock is 1266, boost to 1367. Memory of 1753Mhz.
When running the benchmark, GPU usage is 96%-100%. Core clock target is reached. And temps are fantastic at 70 degrees Celsius. Fan speed isn't that high too.
So what could be the problem, I even reset windows 10 64bit to make sure I start afresh. (also made sure to disable integrated intel gpu in bios). (and made sure all settings were the same as before as shown in image).