Gaming Performance issues - Swapped a 6800XT for a different 6800XT

[chrismscotland]

Folks looking for a little help; I briefly had an ASUS Strix 6800XT LC (with the AIO) in my rig and was getting great performance at 4K in all of the things I mainly play (COD Warzone, Battlefield V, F1 2020 and Flight Sim).

However I didn't think the AIO/radiator was allowing me to get enough airflow in my case (Nzxt H710i) as I'd removed some of my intake fans to make space so I moved that card onto a mate for his new build.

I've since picked up an Asus TUF 6800XT card and replaced this in my system; I haven't changed a single other thing (other than replacing the fans which I took out when putting the Strix AIO card in before).

This also coincided with moving to a 27" 1440p Screen as I fancied the higher refresh rates and thought that 1440p would see me get more performance.

All of a sudden I'm getting really poor performance out of my rig; barely hitting 60 FPS+ at 1440P in Battlefield V, 80 FPS in Warzone and at times Flight Sim is almost unplayable when before I was getting on average 45-50 FPS (Except on the Ground).

I could understand if the temps were a lot higher than the liquid cooled Strix GPU but neither my GPU or CPU are any hotter; its almost like when I tried using a card with a crap PCI-E riser which crippled performance.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I can do to try and figure out what's wrong; all my research and reading of reviews, erc suggests there should be little between the two GPU's performance wise and having not changed anything else I don't understand why I'm seeing such a performance disparity; is it possible I've just got a duff card?

 

[Haz123]

Run a few benchmarks to see if the new TUF 6800xt is getting the scores it should. Whilst doing that use HWmonitor to keep an eye on the temps of the gpu and also the clockspeeds you are getting. Also check how much power it is consuming whilst gaming/benchmarking. Whilst running a benchmark touch the backplate to check it is warm/hot. When I put waterblock on my Asus TUF 6800 I put new thermal pads on the rear so the backplate would be a heatsink, I cannot remember if the card originally had thermal pads on the back to start with.

There is no software issue as to why you would be getting wildly different performance between 2 of the same gpu.

Other things. Did you change the drivers at all ?. Have you checked the BIOS to see that the PCIe is set to x16 and pcie 4. Are you sure the power cables are connected properly? Is always worthwhile checking they are seated well and reattach if in doubt.