HELP! RTX 2080 Performance Issues. Need some advice

Tyhe

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I recently purchased a Lenovo T730-28ICO Gaming Desktop while it was on a fantastic sale. Here are the important specs:

i9-9900K
RTX 2080
32GB Samsung 2666MHZ Ram
256GB M.2 SSD
2TB 7200 HD


I downloaded Destiny 2 and figure I would destroy the game in 1440p with these specs. I was very disappointed to find that my average FPS was around the mid 60's (compared to 140fps + others were reporting with these settings). I lowered the preset from Ultra to High and noticed a slight bump of about 10 FPS to mid 70's. I figured there was a driver issue so I deleted the display driver and reinstalled the driver from Nvidia, but still no improvement. I then decided to run some benchmarks to see if I could identify the issue and here are my results:

Heaven Unigine: (1080, ultra texture, extreme Tesellation, Direct X 11)
111.9 FPS (140+ vs what others have reported)
2820 score (3300+ vs what others have reported)

Passmark 3d Graphic Mark:
5470 (RTX 2080 model average of 15,577)

I know there is such a thing as silicon lottery and sometimes yours just doesn't perform as well but this is well below what others are reporting

I contacted Lenovo and discuss this issue with two different reps and after some suggestions (reinstall driver, update bios etc.) they said that this was not a hardware issue but a software issue and told me to go to software support. Issue with software support is that they will only help for a payment of $60, or a membership plan (I didn't ask how much this premium support plan was).

Anyone run into similar issues? What advice do you have?
 
Yep, it was having some thermal throttling issues because the fan would not ramp up on its own. I downloaded EVGA Precision X1 to increase the fan to 100% (to remove that variability) then ran the benchmarks. This lowered the max temps to ~70
 
Still having the same issues even after the fan speed adjustment. It seems to be able to hit 100% load and doesn't appear to be under utilized.

Coreclock is set at default 1515 MHZ with Memory at 3000MHZ. Power limit is set at 100%

BIOS on the motherboard has been updated to the latest version.