Is this normal for a stress test?

[TheEternal]

I was running FurMark with 8xMSAA and noticed that it was somewhat stuttery with ~15fps, the GPU power draw was only about 77%, and temps were stable around 66C.

Then at 4xMSAA, it went up to ~26fps, GPU power draw went up to ~95%, and temps were up to 71C within 2 minutes.

Lastly, with no AA, the power draw was ~100%, and temps were up again to about 73C.

Is that normal? I get that MSAA is more demanding and should have less fps, but I would think increasing the AA would also increase the power draw and temperature?

980 Ti - stock speeds
i5-4690k - stock speeds
16GB RAM OC'd to DDR3-2400

 

[ShadyHamster]

Most modern cards throttle back when programs like Furmark are being used as these programs apply an insane amount of load on the gpu.
I suggest using something like Unigine Valley or Heaven for stress testing along with runs of 3Dmark Vantage, 11 and Firestrike.
After all that, play some games for a few hours to make sure you are 100% stable.

 

[TheEternal]

Most modern cards throttle back when programs like Furmark are being used as these programs apply an insane amount of load on the gpu.
I suggest using something like Unigine Valley or Heaven for stress testing along with runs of 3Dmark Vantage, 11 and Firestrike.
After all that, play some games for a few hours to make sure you are 100% stable.

Ran Valley and Heaven for probably about 15 minutes total without issue. FPS in Heaven was 87.6 with a score of 2206...sound about right for stock Gigabyte G1 980 Ti?

 

[Reaper_7799]

Most modern cards throttle back when programs like Furmark are being used as these programs apply an insane amount of load on the gpu.
I suggest using something like Unigine Valley or Heaven for stress testing along with runs of 3Dmark Vantage, 11 and Firestrike.
After all that, play some games for a few hours to make sure you are 100% stable.

Ran Valley and Heaven for probably about 15 minutes total without issue. FPS in Heaven was 87.6 with a score of 2206...sound about right for stock Gigabyte G1 980 Ti?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[TheEternal]

Most modern cards throttle back when programs like Furmark are being used as these programs apply an insane amount of load on the gpu.
I suggest using something like Unigine Valley or Heaven for stress testing along with runs of 3Dmark Vantage, 11 and Firestrike.
After all that, play some games for a few hours to make sure you are 100% stable.

Ran Valley and Heaven for probably about 15 minutes total without issue. FPS in Heaven was 87.6 with a score of 2206...sound about right for stock Gigabyte G1 980 Ti?

Yeah, that sounds about right.

I'm assuming yours is OC'd fairly heavily?

 

[Reaper_7799]

Yeah, it's overclocked pretty good. Mine stock is around that 2200 mark.