GTX 980 Strix perfromance at 1080p

[General_Greene]

Hello all! I just want to make sure that my ASUS GTX 980 Strix is performing as a GTX 980 should. I got it yesterday! I am pretty excited over it! This is my first time to spend over $350 for a GPU, let alone $589.99 for one. I think that this card is performing very well, however, I did expect a little bit more.

System specs as follows:
Corsair Air 540 Case
ASUS P8Z77-V mobo
Intel Core i5-2500K OC'ed to 4.5Ghz @ 1.35 VID (load temp is 62C) H100i CPU cooler
ASUS GTX 980 Strix 4GB; factory OC from ASUS out of box. I have not done any overclocking on this card..yet. (load temps on auto fan config 71C)
Gskill 8GB of RAM 9-9-9-24 @1600
Sound Blaster Titanium HD
Seasonic X-650 Gold
Samsung 830 120GB SSD
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD
WD Green 1.5TB HDD
Three Aerocool Sharks 140mm fans.

BenQ 24" monitor; 1920x1080. All games were tested at that res, no DSR was used in any testing.

Games I tested:

The Witcher 2 FPS: 57-75 occasional dip to 45
All settings on ultra; Ubersampling disabled.

Dragon Age Inquisition FPS: 40-58 all settings on ultra MSAA x4

Shadow of Mordor FPS: All settings set to ultra. 61-80

Far Cry 4 FPS: 31-76; all settings on ultra. TXAA x2. Frame rate is really all over the place in this game. Ubisoft, gotta love 'em, right.

Crysis 3 FPS: 37-120; Settingd maxed out; SMAAx2. Frames avg 57-72 outdoors.

GTAV FPS: 65-80 with occassional dip to 38fps. Custom settings; advanced graphics turned off, MSAA x2, TXAA x2. Most settings set to very high or ultra. Grass and shadows set to high. Reflection set to ultra with 8x MSAA

[General_Greene]

I'm simply asking whether or not this is in the realm of normal performance for my card, given my hardware, of course. Basically, I came here to get reassurance. Why come here? You lot here own these cards. So, I'll ask: does the performance of my card seem good? I am running 350.12 and I used a combination of Shadowplay (nVidia Geforce Experience) FPS counter and Fraps to "record" my FPS.

[Chino]

General Greene wrote:
I'm simply asking whether or not this is in the realm of normal performance for my card, given my hardware, of course. Basically, I came here to get reassurance. Why come here? You lot here own these cards. So, I'll ask: does the performance of my card seem good? I am running 350.12 and I used a combination of Shadowplay (nVidia Geforce Experience) FPS counter and Fraps to "record" my FPS.

Yes, those numbers sound right. A single Strix GTX 980 is awesome for 1080p gaming.

[drop4205]

I dont play those games so not sure. In Bf3 and 4 im maxxed out at 190 to 200fps as I think its capped at 200. Wow I believe is capped at 100fps and im bouncing between 85 to 100. Have you downloaded gpu tweak and messed with the setting on it. It can help out

[General_Greene]

Drop, I have BF4, but it isn't installed. I've thought about installing it again though, but then I realize how terrible I am in general as FPS titles online, so yeah.

Thanks, Chino! I had thought that they were, but again... I wanted to just make sure that I was getting my money's worth. I bought this specifically for The Witcher 3, well primarily, because there's also Batman Arkham Knight too.

[drop4205]

General Greene wrote:
Drop, I have BF4, but it isn't installed. I've thought about installing it again though, but then I realize how terrible I am in general as FPS titles online, so yeah.

LOL Yeah I suck at the game to but can relieve stress after a day with the kinda people I work with haha. The strix 980 has been an awesome card for me so far. If you want to mess with gpu tweak we can change a few things and see how it performs for you

[Chino]

You will not be disappointed. 😉

[General_Greene]

You know, I do have GPU Tweak, but I just haven't messed with any settings. It's new software for me as I'm used to Afterburner and EVGA PX. I'll fiddle with it.

I did notice that in HWmonitor my core clock for my 980 hits 540MHz, however in HWinfo64 and in GPU-Z it hits from 1309 to 1329, I think. Neddless to say I think it's obviously just a bug with HWmonitor. The problem for me though is that I can't run HWinfo64 and Corsair Link for my H100i as they conflict, unless I exit LINK. So while this topic is resolved for all intents and purposes; do you have any recommendations on software monitoring other than HWmonitor?

And no, I won't be at all disappointed with those two games and my GTX 980 at stock will handle The Witcher 3 on ultra @ 60fps without NIVIDIA hairworks and physx, however that just gives me an excuse to overclock this card! 😛

[Nahrga]

General Greene wrote:
I did notice that in HWmonitor my core clock for my 980 hits 540MHz, however in HWinfo64 and in GPU-Z it hits from 1309 to 1329, I think. Neddless to say I think it's obviously just a bug with HWmonitor.

HWmonitor shows the same for my Zotac 980, it just stays at 540MHz for some reason. However, in GPU-Z it hits around 1300MHz. So yes, I believe it's a bug in HWmonitor 😉

[Chino]

For GPU temperature and frequency monitoring, GPU-Z is all you need really. No need to run any other temperature monitoring program alongside it. Doing so will just cause polling errors and misreadings.