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[SOLVED] MSI RTX 3080 low-ish Time Spy score in comparison to others?

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Edit: After installing Windows 10 from 100% scratch this didn't make any difference. I finally figured it out after some more digging around. It's the Intel Speed shift setting in my bios. I was looking up more to do with power settings and the C states for lower idle power with the CPU. I wondered if there was any specific settings in my bios that would affect it so I narrowed it down after turning off EIST and Speed Shift, then turning off EIST but leaving Speed shift. Eventually I left just Intel Speed Shift disabled and viola, 18k scores in Time Spy on the Balanced power plan. I have left EIST on auto since I would prefer my CPU to downclock on the frequency and voltage as to not use as much power when idling. So, unless anyone has other suggestions I think I found the culprit. It's more likely a Gigabyte issue than anything else, for ref mine is the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro with the F11 bios (previous tried on F9 bios).



Edit: After trying everyone's suggestions (Thank you so much for helping) I have finally concluded that the issue was in fact with Windows 10 power management. For some reason having it in 'Balanced' was causing my scores to dip very low. Changing it to 'Ultimate Performance' and then adjusting the sections within that plan so that I don't run at 100% all the time. So I changed: PCI Express Link State Power Management to Moderate power savings and Processor power management - Min state 5% and Max 100%. These settings fall in line with the Balanced mode but somehow don't decrease my performance whilst running Time Spy. I now reach 18k comfortably on stock settings for GPU and the same settings on my CPU. My last score in Time Spy was 18,135 with an overall score of 15,344 (https://www.3dmark.com/spy/14366163). So, after reinstalling Windows 10, updating my bios it turns out it was Windows all along. Please comment below if this affects your score in any way or why the power setting change makes so much difference (I'm no expert in the windows power management so not sure what settings specifically in that would cause such a big change). Thanks again all :)


Hello,

Been running some benchmarks on my MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio and seeing some low Time Spy scores (By low I mean not a lot but enough to notice a trend). I also tested various games with one in particular being low - Shadow of the Tomb Raider. This with the High settings would only get about 133fps average in the benchmark. By all means mine is still performing great with high numbers and FPS but I can't help but think something is up/wrong.

My scores/fps
Time Spy score - 14,440 - GPU score - 16,578 (various other runs are more around 16,000)

By comparison, 3 websites I've been checking out that have reviewed the card have as the following:
Time Spy Score: Tweaktown (1440p) - 17,945 / Kitguru - 18,568
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1440p): Tweaktown - 175fps / techpowerup - 177fps / Kitguru 141 fps.

My specs:
9700k OC'd to 4.8ghz on all cores
Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro
MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio (Stock settings)
Corsair RMx 850
Corsair h100i Platinum
WD Black 250gb NVMe (Boot)
2 x Acer 27" 1440p 144hz IPS monitors. 1 of them I have set to 100hz and my main gaming one to 144hz
iCue, Razer Synapse, RGB Fusion and Dragon Center running for all my peripherals and RGB etc
MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 beta 2

I have tried:
- Using DDU to reinstall the drivers from fresh including going back to 456.38 and also the same with the - latest 456.55 but seen no difference
- G-Sync is off for both monitors as per 3D Mark settings
- I have all 3 8 pin connectors with their own individual cable, I had it before where 1 was daisy chained and the other was it's own, this appears to make no difference
- Taking out the GPU and reseating it in case (You never know)

Again, it's not necessarily under performing but when you have benchmarks already out there and mine isn't really that close it's odd. I except the margin of error of say 500 points maybe or 5-10 fps but not this much. I don't believe my CPU to also be a bottleneck in this instance either but who knows.

If anyone has an MSI RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio (Rare in stock) could you please post what you scores/FPS is please.

Plus; Warzone I average around 140-170 with max settings Raytracing off (this seems to be about right)
 
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Id try it with one monitor connected, and also check to make sure your cpu isn't throttling. Intel xtu is a powerful utility that can check this while you benchmark.

Make sure maximum performance is selected in the nvidia control panel.

Strangely I had no issues with the first 3080 driver, and it was only when I installed the new driver, I lost maximum performance in nvidia control panel, it wouldn't stick when selected. I had to DDU and go back to the original released driver to get maximum performance back.

I have the Asus 3080 non OC, and at stock if I remember rightly it scores higher than yours, so must be something going off.
 
As said, try one monitor. And try with the side off. These web sites are using an open test bench most of the time.
 
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/14007307

This is mine, I think at stock settings, with a Ryzen 3800x. 15982, GPU score is 17759. I think that's on the old drivers.

On the new drivers I've only run it with an overclock and I have got 16835 (18312 GPU)

So yeah, seems a wee bit low maybe..

Tried it without iCue? I seem to recall that had an impact on my scores when I used to run Corsair stuff
 
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Thanks, will give that a go now with just the 1 monitor turned on. I also set it to prefer maximum performance in nvidia control panel. Will take a look at my CPU with Intel XTU also.
 
Just tested with 1 monitor on and the side panel off. Got an even lower score this time round: 16,224 for the GPU score.

Intel XTU saying no throttling on anything either.

Will give it with iCue closed this time round.
 
iCue exited and the score is now even lower:

GPU - 15,969

What could be causing it to be so low in comparison to the rest of you?
 
I don't, I even made sure that V-Sync etc is set to off in nvidia control panel and even tried just installing Afterburner without RTSS. The only thing I can think to try is to roll back Windows update maybe?
 
It might be worth while installing msi afterburner, and setting it up to display your gpu parameters in the osd, to see how it runs during the benchmark. See what your clock speeds are and also power draw.
 
Clock speeds tend to average around 1950-1995, sometimes spikes to 2010mhz. Power draw judging by the graph on Afterburner I would say average is around 340, peak is 369.1.

Just ran a test after rolling back on Windows update 2004 and score is currently sitting at 16,393
 
What would be causing the scores to so low with the PSU then? I doubt I should be getting 19k if all reviews aren't getting that and people here are saying lower than 19k also
 
Do you run an NVMe hdd? Have you optimised the Nvidia control panel for performance. Have you changed your monitor resolution to the same as the time spy benchmark? Most of the scores you see are based off a fresh install of windows and water cooled.
 
I do run an NVMe yes, all info can be found in my first post. I haven't changed my monitor resolution to the same, I figure it does this automatically but will check.

I haven't tried stock settings yet on my CPU but will do once I have tried my stock cables that came with my PSU just in case it's the Corsair custom ones.
 
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