Strix 1080 TI Terrible Performance

[Knicks2012]

Bought a 1080 TI this past weekend and have been struggling to get the card to run right. Wolfenstein 2, Forza Horizon 3 and 4, Just Cause 3 and Insurgency Sandstorm run like crap at 1080p. Wolfenstein runs under 30 fps in Roswell, Forza Horizon is sub 30 fps, Just Cause is a little better and can go up to 60 but bogs down when the action ramps up.

I used DDU to wipe old AMD and Nvidia drivers and installed latest Nvidia driver, 411.63. GPU is running at 100% during gaming at over 1850 MHz. CPU is a i7-5930k running stock, 32GB RAM running at 2133 but can go up to 2666. GPU is in 2nd slot on Asus X-99A USB 3.1 Motherboard to avoid my Deepcool CPU Cooler and I have 2 8 pin cables powering the GPU. PSU is a Supernova G2 1000W. Nothing is overheating, highest GPU temp was 66 during stress test.

Fire Strike- 15643
Fire Strike Ultra- 6171
Time Spy- 6315
Time Spy Extreme- 3437

Would OC my CPU significantly help or is there some other issue? My MSI 390 ran flawlessly for the most part so moving up to 1080 TI and getting worse performance is not fun at all.

 

[boju]

Something else is wrong. That cpu is more than capable. Overclocking would obviously help minimum and maximum fps but this problem is quite bizarre and couldn't see how your cpu at stock speeds would cause this. Your 390 worked well right, the 1080Ti would perform the same if cpu was a bottleneck.

Try update bios and restore bios defaults afterwards.

Doesn't make sense getting low fps if gpu is running 100%. Check game settings, vsync etc.

Check cpu usages and temps to be sure all is good.

 

[rfgh606]

maybe it's the second pci slot, only giving 8x iso 16x, look in bios for settings like this, maybe turn off the first pci slot, so the second gives 16x, just an idea.

 

[boju]

Didn't notice about the second slot, good call.

Any reason why you're running 2nd slot?

 

[rfgh606]

he mentioned this, because of his cooler

 

[boju]

True. Id like to know why, is it the fan stopping it? If so, the orientation is facing vertically. If it's possible to change it then could use first slot.

2nd slot shouldn't have low performance issues though.

 

[renz496]

One misconception about cpu bottleneck was people thinking that if there is a bottleneck the performance would at least not going to be lower than slower card (in this case it was 390). Try using nvidia DSR for 4k res and see how the performance behaviour goes.

 

[Knicks2012]

I'm going to check cables, mess with BIOS and boost the RAM speeds and hope that works. If it doesn't I'm going to have to backup important files and start over. I'm using the 2nd PCIE because I need clearence from the CPU cooler but it's 16x so it should work fine. My mobo has 3 16x slots so maybe it's something in the BIOS. It took almost 30 min just to hit the tab to release the 390 from the PCIE slot so that's why I moved it down.

 

[Peter Martin]

possibly a bad card. people don't come here to say their card is working great, we only hear the failure stories and I think more often than not, it's the hardware

 

[Knicks2012]

Went into the BIOS and boosted the RAM to 2666 from 2133. I paid for 2666 so I might as well use it.

GPU is running at 1x on the 2nd slot, how do I change to 16x??

https://i.imgur.com/KxLIxKTm.jpg

 

[boju]

https://techreport.com/review/30456/asus-x99-a-ii-motherboard-reviewed/2

Have a look there, especially the pcie lane diagram.

If you can, try the 3rd slot.

 

[Knicks2012]

So moved it down to the third slot but then I had a USB 3 mobo cable that was now just short no matter what I did. So back to slot 1 and I'll have to struggle for 30 min to get the GPU in 2 years when I swap for a 7nm GPU. Went from 21 FPS on 1080p high for Wolfenstein to well over 200 close to maxed out. I've felt like an idiot for the past 5 days but I learned something new. Maybe I'll pick up an AIO in the future so slot 1 has plenty of room.

Thanks guys for all of your help.

 

[boju]

To release the pcie latch, try use a plastic chop stick. Might make things easier if you can needle the chop stick down there.