Ridiculously Low fps for EVGA GTX 1080 ti FTW3 (Ghost Recon Wildlands Benchmark and others)

[maxim126]

Hello Everybody,

So I recently got my hands on the EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW 3 and I am having a really hard time figuring out what is going on with my benchmark on Ghost Recon Wildlands or GPU for that matter. my fps stays stagnant between 20-25 sometimes reaching a low of 18 fps, here are my benchmarks with the graphics setting:

Ultra Settings 3440x1440 (100 Hz):

Ambient Occulsion: HBAO
Anisotropic Filtiring: 16
Anti-Aliasing:Temporal AA
Display Mode: Full Screen
Draw Distance: Very High
God Rays: Enhanced
High Quality DOF: ON
Lens Flare: ON
Level of Detail: Ultra
Long Range Shadows: Off
Resolution Scaling: 1.00
Shadow Quality: Very High
Terrain Quality: Ultra
Vegetation Quality: Very High
V-Sync: off

Benchmark Results:
FPS: CPU Usage: GPU Usage:
18.18 min 25.42 max 12.5% min 31.2% max 97.3% min 99% max
22.47 21.1% 98.7%

Also, I get this fps on average even when I lowered the settings to medium. It just wont budge from the 20's (Never seen it hit 30 fps). I also get micro stutters, borderline macro stutters

My PC Specs:

Monitor: Asus PG348Q Nvidia G-sync ON, 100Hz OC (also tried bringing it to 60Hz with g-sync off- no change)
MOBO: ASUS X99 A-II
CPU: Intel i7-6800k OC to 4.3 Ghz
PSU: EVGA 1200GQ
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 ti ftw3
Cooling: Thermaltake Pacific Rl360 liquid cooling with acrylic tubing
Case: Thermaltake core P5
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB
Storage: ADATA SU800 SSD 512GB

What I have already done:
1. Used the DDU program to wipe away AMD drivers (previously owned a radeon r9 295x2 XFX) and multiple times reinstalled NVIDIA drivers over and overt again.
2. Upgraded to windows 10 creators build (someone in the forum said it helped solve his problem with the gtx 1080 ti)
3. Turned off V-sync from nvidia control panel also and turned off the share button on geforce experience
4. Tinkered with EVGA Precision XOC. Kept all fan curves at 70% which is really loud and only achieved a fps of 28 no more.
5.Tested out the benchmark on Attila:total war and I am getting an average FPS of 22 (Performance settings), more worse than my r9 295x2

What I want to do next but need confirmation:
I've been reading up on my X99 A-II manual and noticed an interesting thing, turns out the slot I have the card in is a PCI-e Gen 2.0 x16 and the slot close to the cpu is PCI-e gen 3.0 x16. should I move it to the PCIE 3.0 slot? I've read on some forums that it doesn't increase performance, only like 1 or 2 fps and 3.0 Gpu's are backward compatible, but I'm starting that maybe I'm a different case.
Plus I can't get the screen to show anything when I put my stock riser cable to that slot, I'm assuming I need to go in my bios also to tinker with the PCH configuration or maybe put it traditionally without the riser cable since the cable might be 8 pin (x8)?


Please let me know what you think and I apologize if I didn't include any other information (let me know).

P.S I can provide you with Firestrike 4k Test result if need be, for I dont buy latest games other than Wildlands.

Thank you in advance

Solved!!!!!!! I Put the Video Card in the primary slot without the riser cable extension. to all owners that own a thermaltake core p5 case, put in your video cards how they should be put without that cable, it's cancer to amateur buildings like me and threw me off at first

 

[Supahos]

If you drop the setting and the fps stays the same it's usually a CPU bottlneck. Have you monitored it's speeds/temps while in game?

 

[Chugalug_]

Move it to the PCIE 3.0 slot, the extra bandwidth might help it, couldn't hurt.
CPU temps?

 

[rgd1101]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99-A-II/specifications/
https://ark.intel.com/products/94189/Intel-Core-i7-6800K-Processor-15M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz
look like you might be running at 2.0 x8 with a 28 lanes cpu.
put it in the first slot

 

[ARICH5]

you have ALL storage on a 512gb ssd? make sure that isnt getting full.

 

[Chugalug_]

In that case the bottleneck would be pretty huge.
Also HBAO and 16x can be FPS killers, might want to go SSAO and 8x for better performance anyway.

 

[rhysiam]

Definitely put the GPU in the right slot, that could be the problem.

Also, have you stress-tested your CPU overclock properly? Sometimes if there's too much heat, or even if temps are fine but there's not enough voltage, the CPU can drastically underclock itself under load. What you describe with dropping settings but seeing no increase in FPS sounds like a CPU bottleneck. There's no way a properly functioning 6800K would do that, but given you have OC'd... are you sure it's running properly?

You can either:
a) just put everything back to stock in the BIOS and try the game again
b) monitor your CPU frequency with something like CPU-Z under a stress test. If the OC is stable the CPU should hold its frequency (~4.3Ghz you say) for the test.

 

[maxim126]

If you drop the setting and the fps stays the same it's usually a CPU bottlneck. Have you monitored it's speeds/temps while in game?

I am beginner when It comes to this, but I have done it with MSI afterburner and the temps were fine.... no more than max 38 degrees on each core.

 

[maxim126]

Move it to the PCIE 3.0 slot, the extra bandwidth might help it, couldn't hurt.
CPU temps?

spent all night because I ran into an unexpected problem with that slot. For some reason it won't boot windows. it just loads and freezes. I can get into the bios only. another weird about the x99 a ii bios is that in the PCH configuration it doesn't even have the option of changing it to Gen 3.0. Am I missing something here?

P.S I have it connected back to the second slot which works fine. Could it be that my riser cable is damaged?

 

[maxim126]

you have ALL storage on a 512gb ssd? make sure that isnt getting full.

its def not full. I have one game installed on it and still have around 200gb left. was planning on buying if I had those promised fps from the gpu

 

[maxim126]

In that case the bottleneck would be pretty huge.
Also HBAO and 16x can be FPS killers, might want to go SSAO and 8x for better performance anyway.

tried it and average fps increased by 3 fps (25-28)

 

[maxim126]

Definitely put the GPU in the right slot, that could be the problem.

Also, have you stress-tested your CPU overclock properly? Sometimes if there's too much heat, or even if temps are fine but there's not enough voltage, the CPU can drastically underclock itself under load. What you describe with dropping settings but seeing no increase in FPS sounds like a CPU bottleneck. There's no way a properly functioning 6800K would do that, but given you have OC'd... are you sure it's running properly?

You can either:
a) just put everything back to stock in the BIOS and try the game again
b) monitor your CPU frequency with something like CPU-Z under a stress test. If the OC is stable the CPU should hold its frequency (~4.3Ghz you say) for the test.

So last night I stressed testesd the stock CPU clock on CPU-Z and it passed (stayed at 100% with no fluctuations). I put up the default settings on the bios when I reinstalled it to slot x16_1 and noticed some frustrating things:

1. It refuses to load Windows (screen just freezes) on the primary slot....downgraded to an HDMI cable and sometimes wont even show the screen to enter Bios (have to press the restart button a couple of times to get it.
2. PCH configuration does not even give me the option to set it to Gen 3 (only has option Gen 1 and Gen 2)
3. Dont know if this releveant also, but under tools in Bios on the GPU drives sections: it shows a picture of it plugged into slot_1 but right beside says: Native at x4. When I put it back to the second slot and check in tools, it shows a picture of it connected to slot_2 which is gen 2.0 but says native at x1. KEEP IN MIND i am using a stock riser cable (ribbon) that came with the core p5 and cant traditionally plug the GPU in the slots because one of my acrylic pipes is in the way.
4. Could it be the riser cable itself? my previous X99 that I RMA'd was damaged cause of a leak but the riser I never changed for it never wet or anything. Maybe that ribbon riser cable is losing bandwidth?

Thank you for being patient with me and I apologize if im asking stupid questions.

 

[Carnaxus]

What do you mean by "riser cable?" An adapter that raises your GPU above the normal mounting height?

 

[maxim126]

What do you mean by "riser cable?" An adapter that raises your GPU above the normal mounting height?

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812183015&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwordsCA&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwordsCA-_-DSA-_-CategoryPages-_-NA&gclid=CjwKEAjwgtTJBRDRmd6ZtLrGyxwSJAA7Fy-hoU6va5qNdrkbMREuEz8RU3KJ7is-Ts7kO59GvL_UHBoC_wfw_wcB

Its a riser cable that makes me put the card vertically. I cant put the card directly in slot given one of my acrylic tubing is in the way. Any ideas on whether the the riser cables current might be screwed over time?

 

[Carnaxus]

Can you get a pic of this thing installed in your computer? I've never heard of such a thing before...

 

[maxim126]

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99-A-II/specifications/
https://ark.intel.com/products/94189/Intel-Core-i7-6800K-Processor-15M-Cache-up-to-3_60-GHz
look like you might be running at 2.0 x8 with a 28 lanes cpu.
put it in the first slot

Re-did my whole piping and made space to traditionally put it on the first slot without the cable. The fps have skyrocketed! Thank you everyone!