[SOLVED] RTX 4080 Time Spy Graphics Score 25911. Is this normal? (Problem Solved)

[SwallowFire]

Just built my new PC. I paired my Zotac RTX 4080 Trinity with AMD 7600x.
When I ran Time Spy I got a Graphics Score of 25911, which is 10% slower that what I read about 4080 in those tech reveiws.
I checked everything I could think of. 1000w power supply should be enough; PC power mode is on "performance"; GPU driver is up-to-date.
So is this score normal for 4080 or am I just very unlucky with the silicon lottery?

https://imgur.com/a/TvgfvoE

View: https://imgur.com/a/TvgfvoE

 

[kerberos_20]

 

[mjbn1977]

With my MSI 4080 Gaming X Trio I have 28534 (3 run average) in TimeSpy at stock settings. No increased Powerlimit.

 

[kerberos_20]

With my MSI 4080 Gaming X Trio I have 28534 (3 run average) in TimeSpy at stock settings. No increased Powerlimit.

he doesnt have OC model, he should refer to reference score benchmarks, his picture shows that hes getting ok score for non OC model

 

[SwallowFire]

With my MSI 4080 Gaming X Trio I have 28534 (3 run average) in TimeSpy at stock settings. No increased Powerlimit.

This is what I expect from a 4080.

 

[SwallowFire]

I think this graph shows the overall score which takes both cpu and gpu score into consideration. I tried to OC my 4080 to + 120 MHZ on cores and + 1000MHZ on VRAM and could only push the score up to about 26500.

 

[kerberos_20]

This is what I expect from a 4080.

but thats two different cards, trinity uses nvidia reference PCB, no change to power delivery whatsoever

now compare with msi gaming x trio

msi has way more robust power delivery than zotac

zotac has proper OC model called AMP

you see those VRMs? too many right? thats where all that power is comming from

zotac amp extreme has power set to 320-450watts
zotax trinity has power set to 320-352watts
msi gaming x trio has power set to 320-370watts

OC models can run same GPU clock as non OC models at lower voltages, so they can boost higher

anyway...can you post picture from GPU-Z? maybe youre loosing some performance due to pcie lanes

 

[kerberos_20]

I think this graph shows the overall score which takes both cpu and gpu score into consideration. I tried to OC my 4080 to + 120 MHZ on cores and + 1000MHZ on VRAM and could only push the score up to about 26500.

ye probably, but looking at 3d mark results for 4080...28k score on GPU is around 2.8GHz GPU clock

so 26500 on 2.5GHz looks legit

 

[kerberos_20]

With my MSI 4080 Gaming X Trio I have 28534 (3 run average) in TimeSpy at stock settings. No increased Powerlimit.

msi is making good cards...i have rx 6800 from msi gaming x trio and its a beast, i did undervolt it and reduced vram timings a little

overal score compared to others with same hardware looks fine, that 16611 best is also mine aswell

3DMark.com search

3DMark.com search

www.3dmark.com

with better cpu or mobo (im on pcie gen 3), gpu score could be a bit higher, 20k points gpu score is max on 3dmark

 

[SwallowFire]

but thats two different cards, trinity uses nvidia reference PCB, no change to power delivery whatsoever

now compare with msi gaming x trio

msi has way more robust power delivery than zotac

zotac has proper OC model called AMP

you see those VRMs? too many right? thats where all that power is comming from

zotac amp extreme has power set to 320-450watts
zotax trinity has power set to 320-352watts
msi gaming x trio has power set to 320-370watts

OC models can run same GPU clock as non OC models at lower voltages, so they can boost higher

anyway...can you post picture from GPU-Z? maybe youre loosing some performance due to pcie lanes

Yeah. Maybe the power consumption is the reason. During my test the power consumption never went above 300w.

https://imgur.com/1abYlkp

View: https://imgur.com/1abYlkp

 

[SwallowFire]

ye probably, but looking at 3d mark results for 4080...28k score on GPU is around 2.8GHz GPU clock

so 26500 on 2.5GHz looks legit

Actually during my 26500 points run. The gpu clock never went below 2.9GHz. I guess the problem is with the power. According to GPU-Z the GPU only draws around 3w from the PCIE slot, almost all power comes from the PSU.

 

[kerberos_20]

Yeah. Maybe the power consumption is the reason. During my test the power consumption never went above 300w.

https://imgur.com/1abYlkp

View: https://imgur.com/1abYlkp

try updating vbios, C3 bios is latest

 

[kerberos_20]

gpu-z looks fine, i did find your test results
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35027045

I scored 21 514 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

compared to others with 28k score on gpu (with same CPU), your gpu/ram frequency looks fine (average frequency), but your CPU score seems to be slightly weaker, GPU tests does use full 4 CPU cores, do you have enabled high performance power plan? that should give you 100mhz on boost clock

what is your infinity fabric clock? it should be 2900MHz if im not mistaken with your 5800MHz ram

 

[SwallowFire]

gpu-z looks fine, i did find your test results
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/35027045

I scored 21 514 in Time Spy

AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 x 1, 32768 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

compared to others with 28k score on gpu (with same CPU), your gpu/ram frequency looks fine (average frequency), but your CPU score seems to be slightly weaker, GPU tests does use full 4 CPU cores, do you have enabled high performance power plan? that should give you 100mhz on boost clock

what is your infinity fabric clock? it should be 2900MHz if im not mistaken with your 5800MHz ram

I finally solved the problem. It was due to a bug with the motherboard BIOS. I updated that and it is all good now!
Thank you so much Kerberos for providing help! Thanks for reminding me of checking GPU-Z which revealed the PCIE slot power consumption issue, which then led me to considering updating the motherboard BIOS.
I have a Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX. So anyone who has the same motherboard, update your BIOS!

https://imgur.com/byosvvf

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