Wondering what this information means in benchmarking shadow of tomb raider

[ravndal15]

Hello guys ,
I’ve got a bit of a situation I was wondering if somebody out there could help me with . I have started playing the newly realeased title Shadow Of The Tomb Raider today . I have an i7 6700k and 2 x gtx 1080ti’s . I’ve utilised both cards when running benchmarks . The game shows 3 scenes in the test . For 2 of the scenes my cards use about 90-95-100% usage with 70-100 FPS which is great . However in 1 of the scenes my cards only use about 55-60-65% usage and my FPS is around 55 or so . After running the benchmark the following information was provided . If you look closely at the graph you will see the orange dip and geeen rise in the middle . This was when my cards were not using there 90-95-100% usage and FPS was lower . I see information written here I am not certain of such as cpu game , cpu render. I see milliseconds written on the left of the graph. I’m just trying to determine what all this means and perhaps find out why my cards dip mid benchmark run with the information I provided .
Thank you

 

[Dragos Manea]

It is because of the antialiasing, i get the same thing but everything is fixed by turning AA off, also if yout urn AA off there are some shadow flickering, you fix that by turning shadow quality to normal.

 

[ravndal15]

It is because of the antialiasing, i get the same thing but everything is fixed by turning AA off, also if yout urn AA off there are some shadow flickering, you fix that by turning shadow quality to normal.

Thank you so much for that . Works like a charm

 

[Dragos Manea]

Glad i could help.

 

[jankerson]

Yeah SOTR really is no joke with the settings cranked up.


Ran it on both my systems maxed out.


GTX 1080Ti and 8086K @ 1440P

GTX 1080 and 8700K @ 1080P

 

[Dragos Manea]

The problem is with sli, i have a 6950X@4.4 Ghz (10 cores/20 threads) , gtx 1080 ti SLI watercooled, and when i set any AA my usage drops to 50% on both cards. This is a bug, gtx 1080 ti in sli should run this game at max everything on 4k.without AA i got 130 fps. with smaa 2x drops to 45 fps.