• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

GTX 1080 Seahawk only getting 30-40fps???

No idea about WOW but running heaven benchmark at extreme settings (MSAA x8 etc etc) at 3440x1440 is very very punishing so sounds probably right to me. I run an x99 rig with 5930k with 2 980ti in SLI, on an x34 monitor. One 980ti would certainly only pull 30-40 fps in a lot of areas of heaven bench at extreme settings with 8x MSAA at 3440x1440. 1080 isn't much more powerful than a 980ti.

You need to run the bench properly, get a score, then compare your score and system with the massive thread on here for heaven bench. That will tell you if you're in the right area for performance.
 
Last edited:
Yeah good shout with the benchmarks. Try 3D mark fire strike as well and see if your getting the scores others are getting with 1080's. Focus on graphics score there.

Other than that takes a lot of power to run 3440x1440 at max setting 8x msaa etc. If you want more I'd reduce msaa to 2x and tune other settings from ultra to high. Minimal difference for the visual impact.

One reason I went with SLI 1080's. Hit the higher settings and higher refresh.
 
fastboy said:
wasn't there a problem with the lastest GeForce experience causing problems like this?
Click to expand...

Yes.
It has become a bloatware and some games crash due to the nvidia recording services.

hence if not using it remove experience, 3d driver and the xbox recording server from windows 10. (Which is competing with the NV one....)
 
1080p maxed with no MSAA never seen below 60fps anywhere, Moved up to 4K on a 980 same story not once seen below 60fps either. You have obviously done something very very wrong and the sheer fact you use Gefarce Experience bloatware tells me the machine is probably clogged. Read up on things format and try once more.
 
Last edited:
Medium settings in wow runs on a potato. Like others say run firestrike and it lets you compare the result, post it on here and someone will tell you if your GPU is performing OK. If your GPU is performing ok then we can have a look at what settings your using. It maybe something silly like you've capped FPS in wow or summat.
 
In Wow @ Ultra settings @ 1440p (4xMSAA) I was getting about 40 fps at Felblaze Ingress at stock CPU speeds.

Alt-tabbed turned on 4.5GHz OC and 50fps at the same spot. GPU usage increased but still lowish with one CPU core @ 85%+ usage.

Best thing to do for WoW is a hefty CPU overclock or find out which setting are particularly bad on frame rate (used to be shadows..)

And as suggested run some benchmarks that can be compared with other 1080 users.
 
I would ignore wow altogether for comparing frame rates, runs like ****. Maxed at 1440p but with 4*msaa and I can hit as low as 36fps in legion. The CPU cores aren't loaded much and the gpu doesn't reach 99% or anywhere near it in these scenarios. This is on the latest drivers with a mild clock on my 1080. It also seems to have an issue with performance drops after alt tab out of game.
 
pragmatic84 said:
Hello all

I have written this post in several tech forums as well as MSI support, hopefully someone will be able to help me.

I just built a new pc (specs to follow) and I'm very concerned by my GPU performance.

World of Warcraft at medium settings (30-40fps)
Unigine Heaven at extreme settings (30-40fps)
Unigine Valley at extreme settings (70-80fps ????)

Specs:
CPU: i7 5820k
Mobo: Asus X99-A II
Ram: 16gb Corsair Dominator Platinum - 3200
GPU: MSI GTX 1080 Seahawk
HDD: Samsung 950 Pro M.2, 2TB WD Black
PSU: EVGA 750w G2
Monitor : Acer Predator X34

I've already done the following:

1. Updated Bios
2. Run DDU and removed all drivers, reinstalled using Geforce experience to latest drivers.
3. Reinstalled Games after updating drivers.

At this point I feel like the only options I have left are to either reinstall windows and try again or request a replacement card from MSI

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Click to expand...

If you have Witcher 3, throw it all on Ultra and that rig and resolution should have you at late 50s or 60FPS the whole time. If not, something is wrong.

Can't help with WoW or the benchies. Use some real world examples
 
Not sure if mentioned, I only skimmed the thread but could you have it in the wrong PCIE slot?

28-Lane CPU-
3 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 x16 slots* (single@x16, dual@x16/x8, triple@x8/x8***/x8)
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot** (PCIe x16_2, max. at x4 mode, compatible with PCIe x1 and x4 devices)
2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots** (compatible with PCIe x1 devices)
* PCIe x16_1 and PCIe x16_4 slots share the same bandwidth. PCIe x16_4 slot support up to x8 mode.
** The PCIe x16_2 shares bandwidth with USB 3.1 and PCIe x1_2 slot. By default, the PCIe x16_2 slot automatically runs at x1 mode.
*** When using a 28-lane CPU, the PCIe x16_3 slot support up to x8 mode.
 
Drollic said:
I would ignore wow altogether for comparing frame rates, runs like ****. Maxed at 1440p but with 4*msaa and I can hit as low as 36fps in legion. The CPU cores aren't loaded much and the gpu doesn't reach 99% or anywhere near it in these scenarios. This is on the latest drivers with a mild clock on my 1080. It also seems to have an issue with performance drops after alt tab out of game.
Click to expand...

Agreed with this and consistent with my experience. I don't know what the guys is smoking who says he gets 60fps+ at 4K on a 980 :confused: Go to northern edge of Suramar City and look south over the city, that area will bring any set up below 40fps with graphics sliders at 10 + AA!
 
MSAA saps FPS a lot ;) you only need MSAAx2 @ 3440x1440 anyway you will not see the difference with x4 or x 8 MSAA. Try FXAA even though its not as sharp an IQ the difference in FPS is large ;)

3440x1440=4.9M pixels
1920x1080=2.07M pixels

Do the math why a single 1080 is producing those results!

This 1080 also uses the stock H55 AIO which is a budget model but reduces temps just enough to stop the GPU melting. Would have been cheaper to buy another 1080 then get a H55 for £45 in push\pull config & save about £200 for the same results but push\pull means you can drive the GPU much harder!!
 
AWPC said:
This 1080 also uses the stock H55 AIO which is a budget model but reduces temps just enough to stop the GPU melting. Would have been cheaper to buy another 1080 then get a H55 for £45 in push\pull config & save about £200 for the same results but push\pull means you can drive the GPU much harder!!
Click to expand...

I think thats a bit of an exaggeration. Mine runs at 25c idle and so far playing games its not gone above 48c. Although not done much more testing as only just got it. It boosts at stock to 1960mhz. I have mine with the rad attached to the front of my case so it gets cool air first. Used the Total Warhammer benchmark for a quick test and it was doing 88fps @ 1440p ultra settings thats with no overclock on my i7 6700 or GPU.

iojm82.jpg
 
Last edited:
Hey guys

thanks for all the replies, really helping me out here (also learning loads!) I've got the card plugged into the second PCI-E slot (if you were counting down from the CPU) I'm at the office so I cant share benchmark details but off the top of my head I ran heaven and valley last night after doing a fresh windows installation, not installing geforce experience (only drivers installed) and disabling that windows 10 xbox app nonsense.

Heaven - Avg FPS - 50ish on ultra settings 4xMSAA
Valley was about the same.

Still got terribad fps in WoW at medium settings.

Could it really be as simple as wrong PCIE slot?
 
There must be some intensive setting turned on in WoW, maybe check which AA you're using, and also in another menu (advanced maybe?) there is one called Render Scale or something, this should be set to 100%.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom