is 5951 a good Firestrike score for a Sapphire r9 280? seems low.

[ThatIrishGamer]

Hey i just got into this whole Firestrike benchmark thingy,and I was wondering if my 280 is not doing its best?

When i finish my test i go to MSI afterburner and see that my clock speed was only 850Mhz out of my 940Mhz ,though my Memory clock was the full 1250Mhz,when playing a game like tomb raider,the core clock was 940Mhz , also looking at the history it would seem that my GPU was running at 99% instead of 100% during the test.

my specs are as follows :

CPU - i5-4460
GPU - Sapphire r9 280
Ram - Corsair vengeance 8GB
PSU - Corsair CXM600 80+ bronze
Mobo - Gigabyte Z97P-D3
CPU cooler - 212 EVO
HDD - WD 1TB

Is something getting bottlenecked - i imagine not,also im going to upgrade to an Asus strix GTX 980 soon,will that get bottlenecked by the i5?

My temps on the GPU never got above 65C during the test,and fan speed was set to 40% at 60C

 

[clutchc]

Whether the GPU is running at 99% usage or 100% usage is not vital. The software isn't accurate enough to distinguish between that 1%. It shows that the GPU was at its max.

The i5-4460 will not bottleneck a GTX 980. And for what it's worth, I had a R9-280 and a Phenom II X4 @ 4.0 GHZ. This was my Firestrike score: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2170446 Both the GPU and CPU were at or near 100% usage.
I'd say your doing fine. The GPU is the weak link in the CPU/GPU combo.