Lower benchmarks with Overclock?

[Yandar]

Does this even make sense, my fps went down 2fps, and my low and max fps went down as well, and lowered my score in Valley Benchmark 1.0

 

[Undying89]

It means you pushed it too much. That's most likely coming from vram overclock. Back down a bit or try puting some more voltage...

 

[SkylerJacobs]

Please provide more information about your computer.

Sounds to me like you hit some thermal limits

 

[Justkeeplookin]

Now tell me can you notice 1-2 fps difference? Did you only overclock your GPU? If so i think it was slightly being bottlenecked by the CPU try overclocking the CPU too. Remember the CPU is like a messenger and the brain. Its like telling the GPU to go faster while the CPU is still slower and result the GPU can't completely do it's job without the CPU

 

[Yandar]

I know I didn't push it too far.

i5-2500k @ 4.8ghz
Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Xmigatek 700w PSU
Gigabyte G1 970 GTX

+300mhz on Memory Clock, +180mhz GPU Glock, 110% power limit.

 

[Yandar]

This was done in Gigabyte Guru OC program.

 

[SkylerJacobs]

What is your core clock, memory clock, and temps while benchmarking?

 

[Yandar]

My temps are fine, 62c max.. I have been overclocking for years never had an issue.

 

[Yandar]

My R9 290 benchmarks even higher...

Here's the 970 - http://gyazo.com/341ff60cfcb2959ce6dd34342c9a9c30


R9 290 - http://gyazo.com/29071efa73d19924fbaffb2ca49d47a1

 

[Justkeeplookin]

4.8 Ghz on the i5 2500k looks like your no newbie thats actually good. Step down on the GPU a bit

 

[Yandar]

Base - 1358 Boost - 1509 <--- Gpu Glock

Memory Clock - 7310.

 

[Yandar]

It just bumms me out the R9 290 next to me, benchmarks better and gets better benchmark settings than the 970..

 

[Justkeeplookin]

GTX series are made for power efficiency and still good performance R9 290 was made for full on gaming beast mode

 

[Raiin]

It just bumms me out the R9 290 next to me, benchmarks better and gets better benchmark settings than the 970..

from the benchmark you posted, these seem correct for the most part, a r9 290 and gtx 970 are similar in performance, a heavily OC r9 290 can easily beat a 970 and vice versa, i have my r9 290 OC to 1250/1700 and it scores similar to a 980.

 

[Yandar]

Of course I know this, but with my overclocking my 970 It scores slightly lower than a stock r9 290.

 

[Yandar]

Well, both of these cards are brand new I got them both for testing and etc to see which one I wanted to keep, the 290 during BF4 will go from 120+ fps and drop to 30-40.. The 970 keeps a more steady framrate.. I'm assuming this has to do with the fact my PSU does NOT have 42amps per 12v rail, and only 30. So I assume when the GPU is trying to pull more power from the PSU it freezes for a second and is what's causing me to drop fps.. What's your opinion on this? Because I LOOVVVEEE the build quality of the R9 290 Sapphire Vapor-x and prefer it over the 970 but with that issue bothers me.

 

[Justkeeplookin]

What company is your GTX 970 from? MSI? Nvidia? Also do both have the same V-RAM.
I don't think 30 amps may be enough. Try overclocking R9 290 lower than the 970 if it freezes also the below what you overclocked for the 970 its your PSU

 

[Yandar]

The GTX 970, I've had two.. EVGA SSC, as well as my Gigabyte G1. I'm swapping my current one out for my brothers cx750m, ( 60 amps per rail )

The 970 has 3.5g vram, 290 has full 4gb.

 

[Yandar]

Corsair CX750M*