My gpu is underperforming.

[Speezquick]

So i have had issues with performance lately and i decided to do a 3dmark benchmark my specs are GTX 970 military grade, i7-7700k 4.2ghz running at 4.5 all the time basically, 16gb ram etc. And i was noticing in the gpu tests my gpu wasnt performing very well and i was right i got like 11k in score and i googled what other gtx 970 owners get and they mostly get around 13-14k, screenshot of score. https://gyazo.com/897c61e5dbbd521cde30c0b288477616, So any feedback on how to fix this would be very much appreciated thank you very much in advance.

-Jonas

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

Where are you seeing people get a 13-14k Firestrike score with a GTX 970?

 

[Speezquick]

Where are you seeing people get a 13-14k Firestrike score with a GTX 970?

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7120047, http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7026315. For example those two.

 

[cosmoji]

maybe they're heavily overclocking? i just went and looked up my old scores when i built this system with a 970 gigabyte g1 gaming, and 10117, 10161, and 11008 with a very mild overclock. as for 13-14 on a single card.... idk. also those links you have are 11 and 12k, and 1-200mhz over my cards stock in clockspeed, so yeah. overclocking.

 

[Speezquick]

maybe they're heavily overclocking? i just went and looked up my old scores when i built this system with a 970 gigabyte g1 gaming, and 10117, 10161, and 11008 with a very mild overclock. as for 13-14 on a single card.... idk. also those links you have are 11 and 12k, and 1-200mhz over my cards stock in clockspeed, so yeah. overclocking.

Yeah they are 11-12k but not the "Graphics scores" thats what matters for the gpu

 

[cosmoji]

ah yes, i didnt look at that. went back to check and yeah my graphics score for stock is like 11.8 and 13.1k for my overclock i spent all of 5 minutes on. so again, they're hitting these scores with an overclock, as you can see by checking the gpu core and memory clock when you scroll down. you'll notice a very heavy memory overclock on those scores you see as well. they put some time in to it i'd assume.

my stock
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4812598

my quick oc
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4812665

keep in mind those were done around 2 years ago.

your graphics score look pretty good for stock.

 

[Speezquick]

ah yes, i didnt look at that. went back to check and yeah my graphics score for stock is like 11.8 and 13.1k for my overclock i spent all of 5 minutes on. so again, they're hitting these scores with an overclock, as you can see by checking the gpu core and memory clock when you scroll down. you'll notice a very heavy memory overclock on those scores you see as well. they put some time in to it i'd assume.

my stock
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4812598

my quick oc
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4812665

keep in mind those were done around 2 years ago.

your graphics score look pretty good for stock.

And what about my cpu scores