Is GPU-Z wrong or is there something wrong with my card?

[Andrew_203]

I've just noticed that GPU-Z is reporting wrong Pixel Fillrate and Texture Fillrate for my GTX 970 MSI GAMING 4G... https://imgur.com/XqSL5c8
Is this a common problem?, is it GPU-Z playing up? or could there be something wrong with my card?

Thanks

 

[velocityg4]

I wouldn't worry about that. It doesn't benchmark your card. Those are just numbers it pulls from its database. Perhaps it's some other method but those numbers aren't very accurate.

 

[Andrew_203]

I wouldn't worry about that. It doesn't benchmark your card. Those are just numbers it pulls from its database.

I thought it took it's numbers from the techpowerup dotcom database? but these are the ones that I am comparing it with :/

 

[velocityg4]

I wouldn't worry about that. It doesn't benchmark your card. Those are just numbers it pulls from its database.

I thought it took it's numbers from the techpowerup dotcom database? but these are the ones that I am comparing it with :/

Who knows what database they are using. Yours is very similar to this. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If there was something wrong with your card you'd be getting artifacts on screen and/or a bunch of crashing.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2620/geforce-gtx-970

 

[Andrew_203]

I wouldn't worry about that. It doesn't benchmark your card. Those are just numbers it pulls from its database.

I thought it took it's numbers from the techpowerup dotcom database? but these are the ones that I am comparing it with :/

Who knows what database they are using. Yours is very similar to this. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If there was something wrong with your card you'd be getting artifacts on screen and/or a bunch of crashing.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2620/geforce-gtx-970

I have been experiencing some stuttering and lagging in certain games.... could it be bottlenecking because I'm only running it on PCIe 2.0 instead of 3.0?

 

[ko888]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

 

[Andrew_203]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

Yeah, Of course.. I keep forgetting about that... Does anyone know if overclocking the memory helps with this? does it overclock the 0.5GB too?

 

[ko888]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

Yeah, Of course.. I keep forgetting about that... Does anyone know if overclocking the memory helps with this? does it overclock the 0.5GB too?

All of the VRAM operates at the same clock speed. You cannot overclock a segment of VRAM.

 

[Andrew_203]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

Yeah, Of course.. I keep forgetting about that... Does anyone know if overclocking the memory helps with this? does it overclock the 0.5GB too?

All of the VRAM operates at the same clock speed. You cannot overclock a segment of VRAM.

Are you sure? From what I was lead to believe the first 3.5GB were full speed vram and the rest (0.5GB) was a separate, slower module added in.

 

[ko888]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

Yeah, Of course.. I keep forgetting about that... Does anyone know if overclocking the memory helps with this? does it overclock the 0.5GB too?

All of the VRAM operates at the same clock speed. You cannot overclock a segment of VRAM.

Are you sure? From what I was lead to believe the first 3.5GB were full speed vram and the rest (0.5GB) was a separate, slower module added in.

I am definitely sure since I currently have a GeForce GTX 970 card in my system. The last 0.5GB has a lower access priority not a lower clock speed.

 

[Andrew_203]

You may notice a drop in performance or stuttering when you push the GTX 970 over the 3.5GB VRAM usage threshold. There was a class action law suit over this issue with GeForce GTX 970 cards a couple of years ago.

Yeah, Of course.. I keep forgetting about that... Does anyone know if overclocking the memory helps with this? does it overclock the 0.5GB too?

All of the VRAM operates at the same clock speed. You cannot overclock a segment of VRAM.

Are you sure? From what I was lead to believe the first 3.5GB were full speed vram and the rest (0.5GB) was a separate, slower module added in.

I am definitely sure since I currently have a GeForce GTX 970 card in my system. The last 0.5GB has a lower access priority not a lower clock speed.

Fair enough... So OCing the memory wouldn't help no?

 

[ko888]

Fair enough... So OCing the memory wouldn't help no?

That's right. No amount of overclocking will solve a GPU architectural problem.

 

[Andrew_203]

However, going back to the original topic... I have overclocked my card now using afterburner and I noticed these numbers changing as my clock speed was raised... In order to get gpu-z displaying the correct readings for my card I had to OC it to 1253MHz... weird :/