Talk about My System's Performance - It Underperformed Compared to Others by 30%
Talk about My System's Performance - It Underperformed Compared to Others by 30%
Hi everyone!
Yesterday I noticed my system wasn’t working well, so I ran a 3DMark test to compare with similar machines. The results were really surprising!
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/12333...y/1282652#
(my system is the first)
My graphics card showed a 30% drop compared to the same card with the same overclock. I want to mention that I was monitoring temperatures and neither CPU nor GPU exceeded 67°C.
Also, I chose not to overclock my CPU above 4.3GHz because I already experienced a failure (note that I followed all guides and used water cooling AIO, but the CPU stopped working at 4.5 GHz with a temperature below 70°C).
Can anyone clarify these results? Would you mind offering some advice? Could it be related to the power supply unit? (I have a 750W OCZ gaming PSU, not the best, but I bought it nine years ago and was just starting out, so it shouldn’t be too bad, right?)
Thanks to all!
Eventine
Here’s a revised version of your text:
1) Did you turn off all power-saving options for your GPU? The average core and memory speeds suggest you didn’t, but there might be another factor at play.
2) The remaining two users went a bit further with their GPU settings than you did.
- Marc is quite close to you in core clock, but Gaunknown even surpassed him by nearly 100 MHz.
- You didn’t adjust the memory frequency, yet the other two increased it by at least 100 MHz.
3) The other two also had an advantage over you with their CPU overclocks.
4) Comparing 4.3, 4.6, and 4.5 GHz: those settings enable the CPU to send more frames to the GPU for processing.
5) 3D Mark doesn’t share the RAM speed details, but the other two improved it by a significant margin.
So in the meantime, this remains uncertain. They might also have an edge over you here as well.
Conclusion: You didn’t maximize your system as much as they did.
You can turn off the power savings settings in both the drivers and Windows.
You can leave Windows power plan on high performance.
I'm not too familiar with Radeon Settings, but it has features like Ichill, and Cool and quiet, right? Those would be power saving.
There's also Radeon Wattman.
How did you end up destroying your last CPU? Was it also an i5-6600k? I've been pushing systems overclocked beyond all limits for more than a decade, and only noticed a minor drop in performance for two CPUs out of twenty. The vcore has increased, but it's not improving much. Could your PSU be supplying incorrect voltages? Have you checked the 12v, 5v, and 3.3v levels? Is the vcore stable when monitored in BIOS?
You have a CPU just over 4k with a small edge. The nearest competitor has a 100MHz advantage and scores 4300. Someone with a 500MHz boost achieved 4777. Your CPU is on the right path, but it will also influence GPU performance because the GPU depends on CPU speed, so the other two players will likely outperform you at similar clock rates.
Your CPU feels like it's being held back, wondering why it finishes last in a 100m race.
This OC isn't helping much—poor output quality leads to stability problems. You can't just copy others' configurations because each CPU behaves differently; following strict guidelines won't guarantee success. The theory says it should work the same across all these CPUs, but in practice, that's not always the case.