Video card under performing?

[Aksh_47]

Hi guys, to begin with, i had a standard GTX 560.. i play on a resolution of 1366x768.. so the 560 could handle my games maxed pretty well.. Heavily modded Crysis 2 with 40-50 FPS.. Crysis warhead with max settings and AA with 35-50 FPS.. BF3 with 60FPS etc.

But, due to some prob my card died.. ive now got an AMP Edtion as a replacement.. which the reviews claim to be as fast a a 560 ti.. so i was expecting some more performance.
But instead, FPS have drastically reduced.. by about 75%.. FPS in crysis are in the 15-20 range, Crysis 2 doesn't go above 25.. similar story with other games.

in most of the games the GPU usage also stays pretty less, temps dont go above 60. I thought there might be windows and drivers issues, hence i installed a fresh copy of windows and installed the 306.97 drivers.. still the issues exists.

What could cause such an issue?

 

[Jaydip]

List your full specs

 

[Aksh_47]

Intel Core i3 540 stock, 8GB 1333Mhz RAM, Corsair CX430 V2, Zotac GTX 560 AMP.

 

[Jaydip]

Ok Aksh download 3dMark11 and run the benchmark test.We will know from the result if your card is performing according to specs.

 

[Majcric]

The 560ti was my former card, it got somewhere around 4300 in performance 3dmark11. All system specs are the same as in my sig.

 

[Aksh_47]

Okay guys so i ran 3D Mark 11 performance benchmark, and the score is as follows :

 

[zaydq]

What CPU are you using? Its clear that your CPU is bottlenecking you. Is it overclocked? Try reverting everything to stock and rerun the benchmark.

 

[Aksh_47]

Im using the intel core i3 540 CPU, at stock clocks.. no overclocking done.

 

[SPBHM]

Im using the intel core i3 540 CPU, at stock clocks.. no overclocking done.

your physics score is to low for that CPU, there is something wrong...
maybe your OS is full of malwares or something?

you should try to undestand what's going on, see if the CPU is running at the correct clock (with CPUz or something), look on taskmanager if there isn't anything wrong (using the CPU)

 

[Aksh_47]

I installed a fresh copy of windows recently, so no malware.. and the CPU does perform at the proper clock (3.06 GHz)
A CPU-Z screen shot while running furmark.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

A 560 TI is 50-100% faster than a 560.

 

[SPBHM]

A 560 TI is 50-100% faster than a 560.

not really,
with the same clock the difference should be like 10-15%, with higher clock a 560(and 460) can match the 560 Ti...
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/28691-nvidia-geforce-gtx-560-ti-vs-gtx-460-1gb-clocks/?page=2


anyway...

i3 540 should score over 3k for physics (yours did half of that)... so there is something wrong.

 

[aaksheytalwar]

Ya my bad. More like 15-30% stock vs stock.

 

[Fallengod]

Just glancing at this post, seems strange. A GTX 560 should be performing near the same speed of another GTX 560. The only thing I can think of is, you changed drivers. Sometimes you can edit driver settings that give some performance gain, installing new drivers would change those settings back to default. If you "upgraded" or changed drivers that could be it. Past that, I dont know. Maybe defective replacement.

Two of the same model video cards with same clock speeds should perform similarly, id definitely be wary of two of the same cards not performing even remotely close.