Is my I7 2700k Holding my GTX 1070 back? Or what could be the problem?

[thor44]

Hi Guys,

I recently bought a gigabyte gtx 1070 g1 and have been testing it in various benchmarks.

Coming from a GTX770 it is a big Jump!

I read alot of reviews about the 1070 and looked at the benchmarks before buying.

I tested the card with multiple games like:
Dirt Rally, Rise of the Tomb raider, Witcher 3, Battlefield 4.

And of course synthetic benchmarks like Firestrike.
In Firestrike my graphics score is 18 724 which is great and even a little bit over the reviews benchmarks. So I know there is nothing wrong with the card. Temps are also great.

My overall score is around 13.800 points.
The reviews have higher overall scores with the cpu tests at 16 500 or more.

In games I get consistently 10 to 20 fps less then all these review sites. The numbers are still great like in Dirt rally all maxed out MSAA8x i get 75 fps and the review site 85fps

Could it be that my aging gaming system is holding the card back?
i7 2700k with a mild overclock to 4.1ghz
16gb DDR 3 1333 MHZ

I have three Full HD panels 27" but all the tests where made on one single Full HD panel.

Until now it just didnt seem worth upgrading to a new I7 because so little new has happened in the cpu marked.

Thank you for your help!

 

[Dragos Manea]

There is a bug in the curent gen cards, be sure to have steamVR off or the card wont boosts its frequencies, it will stay at base clock.

EDIT: This is with the latest driver version, the other drivers are does not affect the card clocks.

 

[thor44]

There is a bug in the curent gen cards, be sure to have steamVR off or the card wont boosts its frequencies, it will stay at base clock.

EDIT: This is with the latest driver version, the other drivers are does not affect the card clocks.

Thank you for your reply.

Interesting, I am using the newest driver.
I will definetly try that out when I get back home from work.
Where can I turn this setting off?

 

[Dragos Manea]

Well try to run games with steam client off (if you use steam) see if it makes any difference.
If you dont use steam then it is another cause to your problem, also you can try to msiafterburner to see in-game cpu and gpu usage, if your gpu is working 100% then you are ok, if your gpu is 70-80% then your cpu is holding you back.

 

[thor44]

Well try to run games with steam client off (if you use steam) see if it makes any difference.
If you dont use steam then it is another cause to your problem, also you can try to msiafterburner to see in-game cpu and gpu usage, if your gpu is working 100% then you are ok, if your gpu is 70-80% then your cpu is holding you back.

It really is the CPU holding the card back. I did extensive overclocking yesterday, scored an immense 21 000 Graphics score in 3d mark firestrike. (Almost reaching stock clock gtx 1080 FE level of performance).
Tested some games, and truly the gpu was not at 100% but the cpu was. But 150 fps in Battlefield 4 maxed out in Full HD is nothing to cry about

Ill upgrade the cpu and RAM when the new Intel architecture arrives in. ( I7 8700k )

Thanks for your help.

 

[Dragos Manea]

Glad i could help, just for my curiousity how much is holding your card back? How much percent is running your card with your curent cpu?

EDIT: You will decrease the bottleneck or even remove the bottleneck entirely by increasing the resolution, for exemple going to 4K or using all your 3 monitors. Increasing the resolution it would decrease the stress on your cpu and increase the stress put on the gpu.

 

[Dedy_2]

same as me. I use the i7 2700K and palit gtx1070 super jet stream. Initially very happy to take home gtx1070. when in test .. .. way as gtx680 haaaaaah less . especially games like crysis 3, Witcher 3, gta v, crysis 2 full DX11 and hi res. I finally became 4.5GHz overclock the processor, plus a 16gb ram into and i use windows software timer tool in 0.5. the result is pretty, games like Crysis 3, Witcher 3, gta v, crysis 2, ryse son of rome, the shadow of Mordor run fps smoothly despite its not as good as when using the i7 6700k. conclusions 1070 GTX, GTX 1080 requires at least i5 i7 6700k 6600k. I am sorry, my English is not good. I'm Indonesian .. thanks. hopefully help