01-21-2016
05:58 PM
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03-06-2024
03:01 AM
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ROGBot
01-21-2016 08:40 PM
01-21-2016 09:25 PM
Qwinn wrote:
Try a different benchmark, say, Heaven 4.0 (or whatever the latest is). See if you get a similar effect.
Also, what nvidia driver are you using? I know there's an open issue with the latest drivers and high idle usage that only affects X99 apparently. Don't think it's supposed to affect under load, but who knows?
I'd try running Firestrike on both setups as well.
Also monitor power usage on the video cards during your tests using MSI Afterburner or something similar.
Is it possible one system is set up as Max Performance either in windows or the nvidia control panel and the other is balanced? Shouldnt make that much difference, just trying to eliminate variables.
if none of the above clears things up, I'd list out all bios settings for both machines that differ from the defaults, tho the only setting I can think of that might make that much difference would be if hyperthreading was disabled.
01-21-2016 10:28 PM
Minsekt wrote:
theres a gforce driver fix thats available in the nvidia forums, its just not published yet over gforce experienced/the download section. (its 361.60)
01-22-2016 05:27 AM
Qwinn wrote:Latest drivers on both. Same card bios on both. Adaptive or Max performance in the NVCP makes no change. Heaven, FireStrike, MetroLL all seem normal but the frame rates don't run as high either. On the Z97 rig I can see over 200fps (through PX16 OSD) where on the X99 box I see over 150fps at points during a run. I've double checked my NVCP settings on both systems and they are the same for each even when I swap monitors/cards/drivers. I've tried drivers back into the 34x.xx series with no changes.
Try a different benchmark, say, Heaven 4.0 (or whatever the latest is). See if you get a similar effect.
Also, what nvidia driver are you using? I know there's an open issue with the latest drivers and high idle usage that only affects X99 apparently. Don't think it's supposed to affect under load, but who knows?
I'd try running Firestrike on both setups as well.
Also monitor power usage on the video cards during your tests using MSI Afterburner or something similar.
Is it possible one system is set up as Max Performance either in windows or the nvidia control panel and the other is balanced? Shouldnt make that much difference, just trying to eliminate variables.
if none of the above clears things up, I'd list out all bios settings for both machines that differ from the defaults, tho the only setting I can think of that might make that much difference would be if hyperthreading was disabled.
Minsekt wrote:Depending on the card bios I run I can see performance caps in all tests on both machines (stock bios) or no performance caps (modded bios) on either machine. No card throttling on any as 2 cards are under blocks and the one on air never runs over 60c. Yes I've run the blocked cards with the air coolers, they don't throttle on air either. For the record I don't run duel monitors on either system.
theres a gforce driver fix thats available in the nvidia forums, its just not published yet over gforce experienced/the download section. (its 361.60)
check GPU-z for any PerfCap. did you tried it with vsync enabled? (you dont have to disabled it anymore for gsync)
disconnect your 60hz screen, reboot and try again. there are known issues with 60hz displays and gsync displays connected at the same time.
Qwinn wrote:
Yep, I am running 361.60. I spend as much time on the NVidia forums as I do here, hehe.
The thread I'm talking about where NVidia acknowledged the X99 high idle load issue is here:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/910580/geforce-drivers/increased-idle-power-usage-since-358...
The NVidia rep that acknowledged it posted it on that thread on 15 JAN 2016. Hotfix driver 361.60 was released 3 days prior to that, on 12 JAN 2016. So it's a safe bet it hasn't been addressed yet.
For the record, if you have a 144 Hz monitor, you can resolve most of the high idle load issue by switching to 120 Hz. My clocks run very high at idle on 144 Hz with the recent drivers, and mostly ok at 120 Hz.
01-22-2016 07:13 AM
Qwinn wrote:
Yep, I am running 361.60. I spend as much time on the NVidia forums as I do here, hehe.
The thread I'm talking about where NVidia acknowledged the X99 high idle load issue is here:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/910580/geforce-drivers/increased-idle-power-usage-since-358...
The NVidia rep that acknowledged it posted it on that thread on 15 JAN 2016. Hotfix driver 361.60 was released 3 days prior to that, on 12 JAN 2016. So it's a safe bet it hasn't been addressed yet.
For the record, if you have a 144 Hz monitor, you can resolve most of the high idle load issue by switching to 120 Hz. My clocks run very high at idle on 144 Hz with the recent drivers, and mostly ok at 120 Hz.
01-22-2016 07:50 AM
01-22-2016 08:07 AM
01-24-2016 07:37 AM
Chino wrote:
I would take in game benchmarks with a pinch of salt. As suggested by Qwinn, Unigine Heaven is a good benchmark for GPUs. Try running it on a single GPU on your X99 and Z97 systems. Your result should be very close to each other.
01-22-2016 09:23 AM