Dunno, I always used up to date drivers, and a 45% difference on performance seems a bit too much for driver difference.
This is something that happened to me a while ago on my former GPU, and caused a big speed loss. Itâs probably not the issue for you, if youâve already re-seated the card and re-plugged the GPU power cabling, but you could check to help diagnose/eliminate things.
Basically my PCIe bus was not running full speed, resulting in much lower performance. To check this, run GPU-Z and check the Bus Interface section. Here you can see my card supports âx16 4.0â but is currently idling at âx16 1.1â.
If you hit the â?â on the right you can start up a render test to wake the card, and you should see the values after the @ go up to the max, like so:
If it doesnât, then thatâs the reason for the speed loss. Then you just have to find whatâs causing that⌠:)
For me a GPU reseat and replugging the cables fixed it. Oh and I assume you have the GPU plugged into the top slot in the motherboard!
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(this gpu is pcie 3.0, as itâs a few years old)
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PCIe speed was a good guess, props.
Bring up MSI afterburner and try giving it more voltage, see what happens.
$850 for a 3080 if anyoneâs lookingâŚ
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Still available 5 hours later and UNDER list price. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
Today or tomorrow⌠which means tomorrow, given itâs 19.30h here already.
PSU swap seems a fail. :/
(And just this week we are having the first heat wave of the summer,yayyy)
Edit I didnât comment it before, but I also tried putting old Nvidia drivers, from mid '20. The same.
I would have been surprised if it had worked. Suggest calling support for the GPU manufacturer.
I suppose I should be thankful of the gpu having a âsoft failâ instead of a âhard failâ. While it sucks itâs failing, at least I can still use it to play indie or not-so-recent games, while I wait for the next generation.
Have that helped anyone? Given the warranty ended two years agoâŚ
Maybe they have a suggestion for him, or are willing to exchange the GPU out of warranty, you never know.
Itâs a weird one for sure. Have you tried futzing with the voltage / frequency curve and seeing if you can make anything happen?
And what about my excellent streaming suggestion?
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It always sounded to me like the card was trying to draw power at too high a voltage, hence limiting wattage. No idea how youâd go about messing about with that, does MSI afterburner do that?
Set some plausible voltage at a high frequency and see what happens?
I will try. Also, I have one trick to try: reinstall Windows. I may use this chance to install W11.
is voltage limit the issue?
Iâm reading it means it canât boost anymore if itâs 1. But⌠I donât need it to bost anymore, the cpu is reaching the max mhz. And the power limit is 0, so it isnât that isnât able to get more power. Ugh.
I cannot put a negative voltage % in the box, do I need to mdofiy the frequency curve editor by hand? Mmm it seems complicated
I would just try increasing those voltage then power limits to see if anything happens :)
To edit the curve you just need to drag one square down, then thereâs a keystroke to flatten out the remainder of the curve. Ctrl-F maybe? - donât remember. Itâs not too hard to drag a bunch of them individually. Given you donât exactly know whatâs wrong, itâs hard to know which way you want to adjust things.
