*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[johnksss]

12 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Dang congrats man!
 

So, MSI Afterburner OSD shows the external clock. Which is greatly inflated. If I go by these measurements my card is a 3.3Ghz+ queen everywhere. But the internal clock is only 3.1Ghz+ range. 
 

GPUz also only shows external clock. HWinfo has both. Nvidia Overlay shows internal clock only! I had no idea all this time, I’ve been thinking my clocks are much lower than what they actually were. 🙂

You have to let that go. The clock that matters is the average clock. Not the clock speed you set. Nor the max clock that is shown.

 

Side note: This card's max voltage is 1.09V

[tps3443]

18 minutes ago, johnksss said:

You have to let that go. The clock that matters is the average clock. Not the clock speed you set. Nor the max clock that is shown.

 

Side note: This card's max voltage is 1.09V

So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? So if this is the case. my care completely stock runs 2,880Mhz in games. Which I had no idea. 

I am curious to know how the astral is. Man, you are on your 3rd 5090 now? 🤣Nice! 

[johnksss]

11 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? 

I am curious to know how the astral is. Man, you are on your 3rd 5090 now? 🤣Nice! 

Thanks. 🙂

 

The first card a customer was like. I'll take it because he could get a card for months. The second card was a place holder for today when I checked the website and bam! they said they had 12. I got card number 8. And I traded in the PNY, but not before getting a 200 dollar rebate for the cards price drop. So far, I like the card alot. So much so I got accidental damage warranty so I can shunt it and feel comfortable. 🤣 They even asked me. John, you plan on tearing this card up and put it on water as well. I said yep~!!!

 

So far though, I really do like the feel and look of the card and it over clocks nicely. 

 

GPU effective clock is the one you are after. Run a benchmark in window mode and watch what that clock does. The closer you get it to the clock speed you set. The greater the reward.

 

The guy asked me about my 14900KS I bought from them a few weeks ago. Asked me if I delided it already. I was like, not yet. but I think I'm going to pay my man @Mr. Fox to do it as I don't have the tools for that.

[tps3443]

17 minutes ago, johnksss said:

Thanks. 🙂

 

The first card a customer was like. I'll take it because he could get a card for months. The second card was a place holder for today when I checked the website and bam! they said they had 12. I got card number 8. And I traded in the PNY, but not before getting a 200 dollar rebate for the cards price drop. So far, I like the card alot. So much so I got accidental damage warranty so I can shunt it and feel comfortable. 🤣 They even asked me. John, you plan on tearing this card up and put it on water as well. I said yep~!!!

 

So far though, I really do like the feel and look of the card and it over clocks nicely. 

 

GPU effective clock is the one you are after. Run a benchmark in window mode and watch what that clock does. The closer you get it to the clock speed you set. The greater the reward.

That's what I have been going by since my 4090. The Nvidia overlay uses the GPU effective clock speed just like HWinfo does(Only I did not know this). My FE does a great job with keeping up high internal clock speeds considering how dang hot and tiny it is. 

You seriously need to shunt that card. If I had a block already, mine would be done. Lucky you, you have a few block choices already available for blocks, I think. 

@Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well?

[johnksss]

6 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

That's what I have been going by since my 4090. The Nvidia overlay uses the GPU effective clock speed just like HWinfo does(Only I did not know this). My FE does a great job with keeping up high internal clock speeds considering how dang hot and tiny it is. 

You seriously need to shunt that card. If I had a block already, mine would be done. Lucky you, you have a few block choices already available for blocks, I think. 

@Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well?

My apologies brother TPS, I thought it was based off your max clock speeds dropping.

 

Yes, time to hunt down a block.:)

[Papusan]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

@Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well?

 

Not sure I want to spend more money on computer parts right now. And not much time for it now. All to much to spend on the house rehab and other peripherals for the house. I also thinking about a robotic lawnmower. But that's also equal pricy as the +$3000 graphics card.  And then I have to set aside money for our usual one mont summer vaccation outside Africa. 3.5 months go fast. 300-500 USD here and there will be a lot money in the end. 

 

Same vram clock cap also with Hynix. You lust got a love nvidia.

 

The next level of stupidity will be capping the core clocks or remove the voltage slider from working with new Geforce drivers as they did with Maxwell graphics cards. Nvidia just make it harder and harder to love them😒

 

GeForce RTX 5070 Ti With SK Hynix GDDR7 Memory Overclocked To 34 Gbps; Delivers 7% Performance Uplift

[electrosoft]

5 hours ago, tps3443 said:

 I just discovered something interesting with my 5090 FE. So my clocks were kinda pathetic.. And I guess they are, but that’s a stock 5090fe after all, however I notice using Rivatuner/MSI AB OSD, and that app shows the external clock speed.  If I use Rivatuner through MSI AB it says my card is running 2,872Mhz “Stock”. The Nvidia app portrays the internal effective clock speed. Right now I’m playing KCDII and Nvidia overlay says “2,670Mhz” that’s a stock 5090fe spec. But GPUz says “2,857Mhz” and even HWInfo says “2,857Mhz” I never knew this before. But just something to consider. 
 

If I go by this number, it’s going to show some seriously inflated clock speeds. I’m actually amazed by this because if I run MSI AB as an overlay it shows some pretty WILD clock speeds of about +200 on everything. So, if I’m running just 3,270 I’m running 3,470 using your monitoring tool.

 

 

Yeah on all my Astral 5090 screenies and benchmarking results reports, ALL I use is Nvidia's monitoring tools.  My last big post with the card comparisons for the 5080 and 5090 was all Nvidia's tools. You gotta figure they know their hardware better than any other external monitoring tool and it works well enough for my needs to a point. Go back and look.  I just customized the screen read out because I like it to the left, vertical and in red w/ a larger font but that's Nvidia's statistics reporting utility (Alt+R baby).

 

I  use AB when I'm doing fps session grabs to get average framerates via Rivatuner and/or usually overclocking, albeit I used PX1 for that last session for both the Astral and FE.

 

For AMD, if you go back and look at some of the first DXMD pics, you will see AB and Adrenalin on screen at the same time.

 

Using Nvidia's OSD, I'm hitting 2745mhz on the 5080 FE stock and  3030mhz OC'd 99% util in WoW so based on your older posts, that is right in the neighborhood of your stock clocks. Both our FE's have subpar voltage caps at stock.

 

3 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

nah not interested in water blocks. i got the air version specifically to stay on air. i just filled up the gap between PCB and backplate.

 

welp, seems like i killed the 9950X3D 💩 delidding went down pretty smooth, but i think something about the TG HPHS install sent it into oblivion. after lots of troubleshooting i swapped the 7950X back into the socket and after many attempts it finally booted up (apparently the mobo asks if the cpu had been switched and one needs to manually confirm that. however that message didnt show up, just blackscreen. found out about this "invisible message" online and just attempted a blind confirmation via kb, it worked 😛).

im relieved that the mobo is still functional and also LUCKY that i still have the 7950X around (its already on sale on ebay but no buyer yet).

sooooo yeah....i guess time to order a new CPU 😄 and the RAM binning will have to wait 😛 ugh, this is so annoying....welp, maybe the new cpu will at least have a better IMC.

 

 

DAMN!!!!! I'm so sorry bro. 😞

 

I've killed a few chips over the years pushing them too hard. Still hurts to see it happen. They aren't cheap!

 

A proper sorting of the universe would have your replacement 9950X3D having a monster IMC and run ice cold.

 

Next question is, do you plan on delidding this one?

 

3 hours ago, johnksss said:

 

In other news I snagged an Astral today at Micro Center!

 

Awesome! Congrats @johnksss!! Which block are you going with?

 

2 hours ago, tps3443 said:

So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? So if this is the case. my care completely stock runs 2,880Mhz in games. Which I had no idea. 
 

 

Go by your results. You're overthinking a good, solid, average very well priced card. Just enjoy it. I can't imagine stressing this much or coming at it from so many directions to extract water from a rock. I would just focus on the price, aesthetics, potential lack of coil whine and the fact it IS a 5090 and keep it moving.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tps3443]

@johnksss Share your Steel Nomad results please. 

[johnksss]

2 hours ago, tps3443 said:

@johnksss Share your Steel Nomad results please. 

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620

 

Edit:

For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL

[jaybee83]

5 hours ago, electrosoft said:

DAMN!!!!! I'm so sorry bro. 😞

 

I've killed a few chips over the years pushing them too hard. Still hurts to see it happen. They aren't cheap!

 

A proper sorting of the universe would have your replacement 9950X3D having a monster IMC and run ice cold.

 

Next question is, do you plan on delidding this one?

 

thx for the kind words bud, i feel like an idiot 😛 trying to remember how many cpus ive destroyed thus far in my pc lifetime... aside from 1-2 cheapass budget cpus to hone my vice delid skills (back in the day there were no resdy made delidders, had to help urself 😄) i think this might be my very first cpu haha 😛 storage, mobos, gpus, even ram, have all crapped out on me before, but not cpus. in that case it was about time i guess?! 😄 

 

anyways, ill first have to check and see what i got with the new cpu before deciding on delidding. itll hopefully get delivered by tuesday. problem is also time constraints, this weekend was basically a golden opportunity to do the cooling upgrade for cpu & gpu, not sure when the next time is ill get this chance #familylife

[tps3443]

11 hours ago, johnksss said:

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620

 

Edit:

For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL

Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. 

[johnksss]

49 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. 

Hummmm, do you have links to any of your scores? PR?

What driver did you use?

And not sure the FE is really up to snuff this round with the 5090. (I could be wrong) What FE's have you seen holding spots near the midrange to upper levels in the ranks? Including the ones that may have been shunted. Also to note, i'm only speaking on benchmarks. The card seems perfectly fine for gaming. Benchmarks are about scores while gaming is about FPS. And just because it might be 0.03 FPS behind does not mean a card is trash. 😂

And why is nvidiainspector not working on your card? You are using the new version that has the rBar settings right?

[electrosoft]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. 

 

Too many small limitations on the FE this time around. I know I dig in on ya for fun (light hearted ribbing), but the FE will not be setting the world on fire this iteration.  It's strengths lie elsewhere (aesthetics, engineering, compact size, price). You notice the Gigabyte vBIOS coupled with the Astral too. Like @johnksss said and to further I keep pressing is a 5090 FE  is still a 5090 and a monster card out of the box that will lay waste to everything out there and blocked and 1 stage shunted you will extract every bit of performance out of it to let it flex as hard as it can but even in a game of inches it will still fall short due to several factors compared to the top dogs. It's not a knock on it at all and I hope you're not taking it personally bro. 🙂

 

And you are spot on with your rig limitations. It's fun and nostalgic and has its pros and country charm but it just can't keep up with modern hardware from your former 14th gen platform to an AM5 platform. Even a 285k will outpace it to extract as much performance as possible from your 5090.

 

Now you get to think about what you want to move to next. Back to 14th? 285k looks like a lot of fun to tune up. AM5 is a proven winner.

 

12 hours ago, johnksss said:

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620

 

Edit:

For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL

 

Nice score! I see that GB vBIOS. 🙂

 

I'm afraid, but I'll give it a run later to see if my ear drums explode. 😁

[johnksss]

3 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

 

Too many small limitations on the FE this time around. I know I dig in on ya for fun (light hearted ribbing), but the FE will not be setting the world on fire this iteration.  It's strengths lie elsewhere (aesthetics, engineering, compact size, price). You notice the Gigabyte vBIOS coupled with the Astral too. Like @johnksss said and to further I keep pressing is a 5090 FE  is still a 5090 and a monster card out of the box that will lay waste to everything out there and blocked and 1 stage shunted you will extract every bit of performance out of it to let it flex as hard as it can but even in a game of inches it will still fall short due to several factors compared to the top dogs. It's not a knock on it at all and I hope you're not taking it personally bro. 🙂

 

And you are spot on with your rig limitations. It's fun and nostalgic and has its pros and country charm but it just can't keep up with modern hardware from your former 14th gen platform to an AM5 platform. Even a 285k will outpace it to extract as much performance as possible from your 5090.

 

Now you get to think about what you want to move to next. Back to 14th? 285k looks like a lot of fun to tune up. AM5 is a proven winner.

 

 

Nice score! I see that GB vBIOS. 🙂

 

I'm afraid, but I'll give it a run later to see if my ear drums explode. 😁

The Gigabyte seems to be a little better-rounded than the Astral vbios. Who knew...

[tps3443]

1 hour ago, johnksss said:

Hummmm, do you have links to any of your scores? PR?

What driver did you use?

And not sure the FE is really up to snuff this round with the 5090. (I could be wrong) What FE's have you seen holding spots near the midrange to upper levels in the ranks? Including the ones that may have been shunted. Also to note, i'm only speaking on benchmarks. The card seems perfectly fine for gaming. Benchmarks are about scores while gaming is about FPS. And just because it might be 0.03 FPS behind does not mean a card is trash. 😂

And why is nvidiainspector not working on your card? You are using the new version that has the rBar settings right?

No one has shunted FE yet, I have not seen one. I think everyone is being a sissy about taking them apart lol. No blocks available yet, so I think most people are waiting until they have a block before shunting the card. I think shunting and re-mounting stock cooler is probably pointless. 

So, with my motherboard Nvinspector forced or not, I physically cannot enable Rebar. I have tried to modify the Dominus bios and dump the Rebar file on the latest bios, then flash the new modified bios, then enable rebar via CMD. And it just won't work. I lose monitor signal after setting the rebar size limit with the Rebar.exe tool. Physically impossible to make Rebar work on the Dominus which is the stupidest thing man. Because the SR3 Dark actually supports Rebar. 

So, with a slight PCIe Gen 3 bottleneck of 3-4% and No Rebar which cost me about another 2-3% these two things are of course setting me back on Steel Nomad severely. I should be sitting much higher than 15,350.

[johnksss]

32 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

No one has shunted FE yet, I have not seen one. I think everyone is being a sissy about taking them apart lol. No blocks available yet, so I think most people are waiting until they have a block before shunting the card. I think shunting and re-mounting stock cooler is probably pointless. 

So, with my motherboard Nvinspector forced or not, I physically cannot enable Rebar. I have tried to modify the Dominus bios and dump the Rebar file on the latest bios, then flash the new modified bios, then enable rebar via CMD. And it just won't work. I lose monitor signal after setting the rebar size limit with the Rebar.exe tool. Physically impossible to make Rebar work on the Dominus which is the stupidest thing man. Because the SR3 Dark actually supports Rebar. 

So, with a slight PCIe Gen 3 bottleneck of 3-4% and No Rebar which cost me about another 2-3% these two things are of course setting me back on Steel Nomad severely. I should be sitting much higher than 15,350.

Now that all depends on the highest FE card you seen to date.

 

Totally forgot about the board being that old, but I was also under the impression that rebar could be enabled on boards that did not have it in the bios. I would have lost that bet.

 

Might be time to rent a system to cure your curiosity. To see first hand how much you are missing. Or not missing. 🙂

 

So lots of big talk Fe owners but no one wants to be first? And shunting it and putting back stock, nothing wrong with that. Just don't go over board on the over clocks and just watch the temps. Then when the blocks are ready, grab one and you are already good to go. Speaking of which, my EVC2 and shunts should be here some time today.

 

Other alternative.....dump the card and grab anything other than an FE.