GTX 770 - performance lower than expected. Need help from 680/770/780/Titan owners

Marek Lesniak · Jul 6, 2013

First things first, so, here's my rig:
- i5 2500k @ 4,5GHz
- 8GB RAM
- GTX 580 1,5GB VRAM @ stock speeds (772/2000)

Yesterday I bought a GTX 770 from Gigabyte, the one with Windforce 3 cooler. It's factory overclocked to 1137MHz (+ nVidia Boost).
As I went through a few reviews from techpowerup, guru3d etc. I was expecting a fps boost of about 45-50%.
What I only gained, is like +10-12% vs my GTX 580... not a whole lot, right?

So now I am wondering, is it the current state of rF 2 (older builds, like 90 were giving me expected fps gain when I was testing various nVidia cards) or something on my PC (even though other games have performance as should be on GTX 770).

Could GTX 680, 770, 780 and Titan owners do some tests for me and report with fps you get?

A few things to set up first:
1. nVidia driver 320.49:
- texture quality - set to "High Quality"
- Maximum pre-rendered frames - set to "1"
- Power Management Mode - set to "Prefer maximum performance"
Everything else set to default (which typically means "Application controlled").
NOTE: If you use nV Inspector or such, drop its settings to defaults as we don't want it to mess with drivers panel settings!

2. rF 2 Config settings:
- resolution 1920x1080
- no v-sync (obviously ;-) )
- HDR on
- FXAA off
- AA Level 6
- refresh rate 60Hz (shouldn't matter but just in case)

3. rF 2 in-game settings:
Everything at its maximum:

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The tests:
1. Megane at Mills Outer Loop C - with 24AI:
- 24AI (just the Megane) + you starting from last
- sunny weather @ noon (12:00pm)
- standing start after formation lap
Here's the procedure:
Switch to race session and allow AI to take control of your car. Once formation lap begin, start Fraps benchmark. Finish when ALL cars take their places on the grid after formation lap (notice left column will be behind you when you stop, so wait for them too!).

2. Megane at Mills Outer Loop C - no AI:
- no AI
- sunny weather @ noon (12:00pm)
- standing start after formation lap
The procedure is the same as in pt.1. You just don't wait for any AI (but still, let AI do the formation lap for you).

3. Modern F2 at Silverstone - no AI:
- no AI
- sunny weather @ noon (12:00pm)
The procedure:
Let AI take control of your car. Let it drive of the garage and benchmark one whole lap from start/finish line (can be between the old one or the new one - doesn't matter).

Fraps benchmark reports back min., max. and average fps values but you have to check them first. Those values are what we are looking for. Thanks in advance!

Will check something and report back with my results.

C3PO · Jul 6, 2013

Hi,

See this post here: http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.p...v1-01-Released?p=184703&viewfull=1#post184703

It was a comparison with Project CARS for FPS but still the comparison is valid with your set-up.

Marek Lesniak · Jul 6, 2013

Thanks, I read that already but your tests were different - SLI setup, different resolution and different graphics settings.

DurgeDriven · Jul 7, 2013

My specs are right in between yours 2500K@4.5GHz and GTX670
My previous card was also a GTX570

You really want to give those settings a miss.

High env reflections look terrible on windscreens, blotchy mess

Your settings ( Max shadows included ) Kills Fps, I got barely 60fps off the start line.

I notice they fixed black FXAA ? It was worse fps with FXAA off now. !?

I run settings I get 80 fps at Silverstone and it looks just as good.

Natureboy · Jul 7, 2013

I just went from a evga 660SC to the evga 770SC. Performance gains vary largely from track to track but I see between 50 and 100% more FPS with everything on and max detail at 1440p (only 3x AA, more shows no difference). 770 gives 60-120 FPS, 660 gave 40-90 FPS, both cards being very smooth at any framerate.

i5 3570k, not OC
16 Gb RAM

Natureboy · Jul 7, 2013

Actually I bought the 770 at the same time as purchasing the higher res monitor, expecting a big performance hit. Before at 1080, the 660 ran 50-100 FPS.

MJP · Jul 7, 2013

Hope this thread doesn't go the usual way of people posting what they get with their settings rather than what was asked for in the OP.

Sorry LesiU I don't have one of those high end cards you were hoping for, I'm posting purely for selfish reasons as a GTX770 is really on the limit of what I want to spend on a new card and I want to see how it compares.

Anyway here's my rig and results:

- i5 3570k @ 3.6GHz (I need to flash a dodgy beta bios in order to oc ivy 'K' chips on my mobo (Gigabyte suck))
- 8GB RAM @ 1600MHz
- GTX 470 1,28GB VRAM @ 650/1674, 285.62 driver (newer drivers don't seem to work as well on my old card)

Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 37.570 - Min: 24 - Max: 50

Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 58.300 - Min: 44 - Max: 72

Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 36.363 - Min: 24 - Max: 57

TomF74 · Jul 7, 2013

i5 2500K@4ghz; 8gb ram; gtx680 def clocks; nv driver: 310.64 /win7 64bit
test 3
Frames: 6473 - Time: 112099ms - Avg: 57.744 - Min: 46 - Max: 70

i hope it helps
if i ll do the other tests i ll post them too

vittorio · Jul 7, 2013

Benchmarked with the exact settings asked by the OP. My GPU is a factory OC GTX670 (performance should be very close to a stock GTX680, ~2% less performance).

My system:
CPU: Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.6 GHz
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79, X79
Memory: 16GB DDR3-1600
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Video: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC WindForce 3 2GB
Driver: 314.22 WHQL

Benchmarks:

2D, @3.6GHz, 3 virtual mirrors
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 43.102 - Min: 33 - Max: 55
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 70.324 - Min: 55 - Max: 89
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 63.897 - Min: 49 - Max: 80

2D, @3.6GHz, no virtual mirrors
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 46.311 - Min: 34 - Max: 59
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 71.344 - Min: 57 - Max: 89
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 66.058 - Min: 52 - Max: 81

2D, CPU@4.55GHz OC, no virtual mirrors
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 46.321 - Min: 34 - Max: 60
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 71.466 - Min: 57 - Max: 89
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 77.875 - Min: 64 - Max: 90

-> I benchmarked with 3 virtual mirrors first, but since this wasn't specified in the test I benchmarked again without virtual mirrors. FPS impact isn't much.
-> To see whether these tests are CPU or GPU limited on my system I overclocked my CPU from 3.6 to 4.55GHz (CPU speedup 26.4%).
Mills tests are completely GPU limited, Silverstone got an avg speedup of 17.9%.

The following results are for personal interests since I never race in 2D. All three tests in stereoscopic 3D are GPU limited. Maybe of some interest to others.

3DVision interleaved, @3.6GHz, no virtual mirrors:
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 27.609 - Min: 19 - Max: 36
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 40.702 - Min: 29 - Max: 54
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 44.201 - Min: 33 - Max: 54

3DVision interleaved, @4.55GHz OC, no virtual mirrors:
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 27.498 - Min: 19 - Max: 36
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 40.812 - Min: 29 - Max: 54
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 42.178 - Min: 31 - Max: 52

3DVision interleaved, @4.55GHz OC, no virtual mirrors, AA Level 3 (instead of 6):
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 32.915 - Min: 22 - Max: 43
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 47.062 - Min: 34 - Max: 62
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 55.705 - Min: 43 - Max: 66

(Since these tests are very well specified, maybe we could use these as standard tests ,with lowerd AA since AA level 6 is very high, and create a new thread to benchmark all kind of systems)

o0thx11380o · Jul 7, 2013

I have a gtx 680 and with all ingame settings at max I get no lower than 35 fps in any car and on any track with up to 10 AI cars.

Im running a couple year old quad core 3.1 ghz with 12 gigs ram

Im running antialiasing forced in NvInspector at 4x multisampling and 4x sparse grid supersampling. Vsync set to off. No FXAA. HDR is ON. Resolution set at 1920x1200

EDIT: sorry I should have read the rest of the post.. disregard this if it doesnt help.

DurgeDriven · Jul 7, 2013

MJP said: ↑

Hope this thread doesn't go the usual way of people posting what they get with their settings rather than what was asked for in the OP.
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THE GUY ANSWERED HAS A GTX770 YOU DONT !@!

Need help from 680/770/780/Titan owners
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ANYWAY HE DOES NOT HAVE TO DO WHAT HE IS TOLD, HE CAN POST WHAT HE LIKES WITHOUT YOU WHINGING.

WHO ARE YOU or POSTER TO SAY OTHERWISE !

"the usual way ................ "
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ffs

Noel Hibbard · Jul 8, 2013

GTX 770 - performance lower than expected. Need help from 680/770/780/Titan o...

In rF1 there was a cmd line option +nosound if I recall. Has anyone tried this option in fR2 and if so did they notice any change in framerate? The sound engine in rF2 is basically the same as rF1 and in the past I recall people seeing improvements when disabling the sound.

Not suggesting this as a solution, just trying to rule it out as a bottleneck.

DurgeDriven · Jul 8, 2013

I did a fresh lite folder rFactor2 TEST and installed only test components.
NV profiles default
Touched no rF2 settings other then outlined

My system:
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.5 GHz
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD65
Memory: 8GB DDR3-1600
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Video: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 OC WindForce 3 2GB ( default clocks)
Driver: 320.49 WHQL

Benchmarks:

2D, CPU@4.5GHz OC, no virtual mirrors
Test 1 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, 24AI, MEGANE
Avg: 44.766 - Min: 34 - Max: 63
Test 2 - MILLS OUTER LOOP C, NO AI, MEGANE
Avg: 70.691 - Min: 56 - Max: 88
Test 3 - SILVERSTONE GP LAYOUT, NO AI, F2
Avg: 64.322 - Min: 50 - Max: 81

vittorio · Jul 9, 2013

No one with a higher end GPU like 770/780/Titan and with some time to benchmark? I would be very interested too how these cards perform with rf2.

Marek Lesniak · Jul 9, 2013

OK chaps, here are my scores.

GTX580
Test 1
min. 36, max. 65, avg 51.459
Test 2
min. 53, max. 83, avg. 67.707
Test 3
min. 46, max. 78, avg. 64.278

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GTX 770
Test 1
min. 36, max. 64, avg. 47.572
Test 2
min. 55, max. 93, avg. 71.885
Test 3
min. 55, max. 87, avg. 71.646

To sum things up:
TEST1
GTX 580: min. 36, max. 65, avg. 51.5
GTX 770: min. 36, max. 64, avg. 47.6
+ 0.0% - 1.5% - 8.2%

TEST2
GTX 580: min. 53, max. 83, avg. 67.7
GTX 770: min. 55, max. 93, avg. 71.9
+ 3.8% +12.1% + 6.2%

TEST3
GTX 580: min. 46, max. 78, avg. 64.3
GTX 770: min. 55, max. 87, avg. 71.7
+19.6% +11.5% +11.5%

The first test is with AI so CPU has the biggest influence on performance, so don't bother the GTX770 seems to be "worse". The difference is neglible.

In general, the GTX770 looks to be just several % faster than GTX 580.... in other games, we see it beeing better by 40-50% so it looks rF engine still can't get full use of the newest cards. As 7xx (6xx too?) seem to have shader/geometry performance ratio closer to Ati than it was with older nVidia cards, I think that might be the case why it doesn't shine in rFactor.

I remember, doing such comparison tests between GTX 570 and 580 in rFactor 2 Build 90. So i installed it, brought back the same cars/tracks (the same old versions of them) and did the same set of tests to see, if bad performance for GTX 770 could be just in newest builds.

All 3 tests are basically the same apart test 3, where I use F3 Spark at Monte Carlo (instead of F2 @ Silverstone).

GTX580
Test 1
min. 57, max. 86, avg. 72.420
Test 2
min. 71, max. 109, avg. 91.570
Test 3
min. 56, max. 119, avg. 82.841

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GTX 770
Test 1
min. 61, max. 91, avg. 77.757
Test 2
min. 79, max. 120, avg. 101.388
Test 3
min. 69, max. 126, avg. 93.701

To sum things up:
TEST1
GTX 580: min. 57, max. 86, avg. 72.4
GTX 770: min. 61, max. 91, avg. 77.8
+ 7.0% + 5.8% + 7.5%

TEST2
GTX 580: min. 71, max. 109, avg. 91.6
GTX 770: min. 79, max. 120, avg. 101.4
+11.3% +10.1% +10.7%

TEST3
GTX 580: min. 56, max. 119, avg. 82.8
GTX 770: min. 69, max. 126, avg. 93.7
+23.2% + 5.9% +13.2%

We see GTX 770 is slightly faster in older build, but still the difference is far from what I was expecting.

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I saw in other threads, there are a few guys with Titans and 680s... too bad they didn't show up here
None the less, thank you to all of you who did those tests for me, so we can compare our results. Thanks guys!

Looking on those scores, for me - if someone wants to buy a new nVidia card mainly for rFactor 2, forget about it as it's not worth the money... at least not until rFactor 2 will be utilizing newer cards on a level similar to other games.

PS As for mirrors - for all my tests I was using just the real ones at default seat position.

Marek Lesniak · Jul 10, 2013

To let you know, I overclocked my GTX 580 by 20% on core/shaders and 10% on memory (from 772/2000 to 926/2200) and in general, I get a performance boost of typically 15-16% compared to stock clocks. After OC, it's faster than mentioned GTX 770.

TEST1
GTX 580: min. 36, max. 65, avg. 51.5

580 OC : min. 42, max. 72, avg. 58.2
GTX 770: min. 36, max. 64, avg. 47.6

TEST2
GTX 580: min. 53, max. 83, avg. 67.7

580 OC : min. 61, max. 96, avg. 78.2
GTX 770: min. 55, max. 93, avg. 71.9

TEST3
GTX 580: min. 46, max. 78, avg. 64.3

580 OC :min. 48, max. 89, avg. 75.5
GTX 770: min. 55, max. 87, avg. 71.7

That also shows, questionable performance of GTX770 is not because of something is holding it down like too slow CPU or whatever... otherwise, I won't be seeing as much gain after OCing the GTX580.

DUFFBAG · Jul 10, 2013

Looking forward to RF2 working like everything else I have installed...and to working on my driving... not my control panel & ISI Forums. 2xGTX660... ... Fail.

Quo-Fan · Jul 11, 2013

Nearly the same problems with my GTX670. Picture quality with everything on full/high is bader than RF1 with the same settings.
Even with tools like Nvidiainspector it looks better, but FPS is going down then.
Normally, if you choose in Nvidia system settings "Best Quality" the game should look very fine, but this isn´t at this stage.

Bart S · Jul 11, 2013

For a start running AA in rFactor 2 is garbage kills performance start overiding in nV inspector turn all AA off in rFactor, turn off FXAA leave HDR on. Special effects and Shadows medium and optimal cos you cant bearly tell any difference to Max. Sun occlusion is an fps eater also I have it off, you wont miss it. Road + Enviro reflections medium, you wont miss high here either. With just these adjustmans you should really notice some fps unlocked.

As Noel said above I can kind of confirm what he is saying regards sound engine however I run 24 samples max instead of default and I think less samples helps quit alot.

Why not read my thread about Graphics, its got a bit of Durge babble in there but try to ignore it, this thread has helped many with alot of thankyous http://isiforums.net/f/showthread.php/12633-4x-Better-Graphics-and-way-more-FPS-Guide

My last post in the silverstone thread will give you an idea of what FPS im getting now after my recent upgrade.

Bart S · Jul 11, 2013

LesiU reading your post above seems like you may have a driver problem with your GFX the following guide may help resolve your problem : http://www.overclock.net/t/1150443/how-to-remove-your-nvidia-gpu-drivers Then do a fresh install of latest nVidia Drivers.

If that still doesnt help I would look into your bios do you have option for PCI-E 3 x16 enabled also do you have your GTX770 in the ffirst slot as your mobo may only have x16 on the first slot.
GTX770 is pretty much a GTX680 maybe overclocks better and has new TXAA support.

Also check with your GTX770 manufacturer if bios is of latest you may have to reflash due to added support for older mobos.

Also check your mobo manufacturer for latest bios.

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