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Hi, I just went and bought a Gigabye gtx 1080 TI waterfroce GPU.

Went for water cooling for optimal performance. I was about to order a second one but then i run the banchmark and it's only 139.

I have a Z800 Xeon workstation, windows 7 64, CPU is 2 x Xeon x5670 and 48gb ram.

I mean i tought it's the gpu that mattered no?

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks!

Update:

It was stuck at 1607mhz (with latest driver, i installed the driver on gigabyte's site now it works)

When it runs bench, it runs at 2025mhz...but then it gives 150 score temp is low like 37 38

When i stress the cpu with cpuz i get 165 (but this is crazy, to just stress it for little gain)

I was hoping to get 170-180 without stressing.

Any idea what's the bottle neck? When running the bench, cpu is 1595-1728 +-
Like the other user wrote in this forum, it never went above 4% load.

Sounds strange. I get 198 with a 1080 ti running at 2025mhz. If I set my system from standard to performens (overclocking in bios) I get 211.
Cpu goes from 3.7 Ghz to 4.0Ghz. But then my CPU is forced at high clock speed an never throttles and I wont have that.

Btw, are you absolutely sure it is a ti card? Check the driver info about the chip.

Zay wrote:Btw, are you absolutely sure it is a ti card? Check the driver info about the chip.

Hey Zay, Thanks for your reply.

Yes it's a TI. In GPU Z it says TI, the memory is also 11264mb

Btw here it never stresses the cpu, i stressed my self with the cpu z. When i run the benchmark it does not do anything to the cpu.

It's kinda weard i'm getting like gtx 1080 results...

I think it's the old cpu bottlenecking?

Can it be that it's PCIE x 16 2.0 ? Instead of PCI 3.0 ?

Zay wrote:Btw, are you absolutely sure it is a ti card? Check the driver info about the chip.

I had a differnt pc with a i7 2600 in it. I put in it now i get 194 standard, and 204 on oc mode.

So i guess it's the Xeon X5670 cpu's...because this one is also PCIE 2.0 and still gets a nice 194...

Woaw, that's a big difference.

Zay wrote:Woaw, that's a big difference.

Indeed, btw thanks man, it was because of your footer (pc specs that made me try it on the other pc) :p

take care

It Just shows the graphic card is not the main engine for rendering in Octane anymore. But yes, it would be nice to know what parts of the computer is throttling the graphic card down.

Zay wrote:It Just shows the graphic card is not the main engine for rendering in Octane anymore. But yes, it would be nice to know what parts of the computer is throttling the graphic card down.

Indeed! I'm suspecting the dual xeon cpu. I ordered yesterday a second gtx 1080 ti. Now i get 384 score. Seperate they get arround 182 en 198 . GPU temperature is 34-40 Celsius.

The 198 is on a 16x while the 2nd card is on a 8x (i think thats the reason of lower score).

I think i need to built a new pc where i can put 3 of this cards with the latest tech to get the most out of them. This pc is like from 2011 2012

cheers