So frustrating!!!!!! GTX 590 performance way too low in games..

[Guest]

I bought and installed Mafia 2, which seems to have recognized the dual - gpus in SLI (profile automatically set in nvidia control panel), and set everything to the nvidia-recommended settings (maxed w/o vsync) and ran the benchmark. The Nvidia website said that the average should be 57 fps, and reviewing websites gave even higher scores such as overclockersclub which says i should be getting 88fps, and hardwareheaven.com saying that i should be getting 109 fps, all at my resolution, with the same settings enabled (physx on, in-game settings to high)

so why the hell is it, when i run the benchmark, my average frames per second at the end of it is 47??? I wouldn't expect anything else to be a bottleneck, as i have an intel core i7 2600k overclocked to 3.8ghz, 8GB of G.Skill Ripjaws RAM, and 1000W Power Supply powering it all.

This is really frustrating, because all of my benchmark scores have been lower than they are in reviews for this video card!!!!!!!!!!!! for this game, Just cause 2, Crysis, and other games!! I would really appreciate help sorting this out ):

GPU-Z screenshot for one GPU:

GPU-Z screenshot for the other GPU:

EDIT: Mafia 2 does have a benchmark tool = that is where i got my 47 fps from.

I dedicated one GPU to Physx - this improved my Avg FPS to about 53 fps. This is closer to the official Nvidia score (that i assume they also got from the benchmark tool), 57 fps.

But it still does not explain the 80-110 fps that other reviewing websites got... !!

Also, I opened up Nvidia inspector while running it - The GPUs are not even at 100% usage!!! What could be going on with my $2600 computer... plz help..

 

[bystander]

No, I don't have one for your CPU, I'd recommend going to the Overclocking forum on this site: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum-29.html

They could probably point you in the right direction.

 

[FlintIronStagg]

Yeah, without physx - the whole point of the benchmark is to showcase a ridiculous amount of physx to see hwo your video card can handle it.

bystander, other benchmarks are most of the time also lower than they should be. Just cause 2 for example, my benchmark scores are lower than other benchmark scores, also Crysis 2 (DX11, with the high rez textures and 1.9 patch) drops to about 30 fps when there are a lot of particle effects and stuff going on, which seems way too low for my video card (which could get it up to 100+ fps on other versions of crysis 2...)

amd655, I paid a computer store to set my video card up for me - I really have no idea how to check if it's connected properly, i mean in terms of pcie 8 pin and 6 pin and etc... I played around in NCP and didnt get far, and yeah it is all stock settings, only the processor is OCed to 3.8.

Any other ideas or help would be appreciated?

My point in stating my results was to show you how taxing physx is and how well your gpu is running with it enabled if you are getting close to the same results with physx on. Try turning off physx and see what it can do and if you see a Jump in performance then there's your issue. Oh, and benchmarking is to see where your computer runs optimally for its power and not just to test physx.

 

[Guest]

Best answer selected by DTsoy.

 

[Guest]

Thank you everybody for helping me out

 

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