Titan X - very poor 6-7 FPS on 3D Mark at 2K

I friend of mine was having issues with his Titan X (reported flickering issues), I brought it with me for troubleshooting. Today I put it on my PC and tried running it, I did notice a few flicker within the first few minutes of startup but them it ran smoothly. Fired up 3D mark and ran some tests at 2K and FPS was horrendous, wouldn't go over 7 fps, is that normal? Are there any software/driver setting I can tweak to fix it?

did you run driver cleaner before you installed the card? Sounds like a driver issue to me. Or the card is faulty...

I am currently running 1080 Ti, do I still need driver cleaner?

You shouldnt need to, but it wouldnt hurt

Sounds like he will need to RMA if you just verified his results.

Yeah, that is not normal. Hopefully still under warranty.

It's unclear whether it is only slow in 3DMark or performs bellow expectation in others as well. If it's only 3DMark, then who cares?

I'd check temps of the card to see whether it is throttling due to overheating perhaps.

Its not just 3Dmark, games and videos are pretty bad too. Temp stays low, doesn't go over 40

Sounds like the card is stuck in a low power state. Could be a messed up bios. It needs to be sent for RMA if its still covered.

If it's somehow not under warranty I would grab a bios for whichever titan that is, flash, and pray...

You could also try disabling low power states with afterburner, but I'm not sure if that works on newer nvidia cards.

Mode13 said:

Sounds like the card is stuck in a low power state. Could be a messed up bios. It needs to be sent for RMA if its still covered.

If it's somehow not under warranty I would grab a bios for whichever titan that is, flash, and pray...

You could also try disabling low power states with afterburner, but I'm not sure if that works on newer nvidia cards.

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It should be able to play videos in a low power state as well.

Try this:

Run GPU-Z while benchmarking with 3DMark or Heaven or a demanding game or something, and look at the PerfCap Reason field in the sensors window. See what it says and report back. That will give us a clue as to why the card is misbehaving.

Also keep an eye on what it reports as the clock speed. The proper behavior with the stock cooler is that it should run at about 1800 to 1900MHz, and then drop down to like 1600-1700 after it reaches operating temperature. The exact number will vary depending on the ambient temperature, and whether you have any overclock dialed in.

I've never seen it happen, but I have heard of the BIOS issue that Mode13 mentioned. I could also maybe see this being a hardware issue. For instance, if the shunt resistors on the card read too low a resistance, the card will think it's running outside of the acceptable power envelope and try to reduce clock speed and voltage to get back within spec. It could also be driver related, although I've never had that happen with any of the 15 or so Pascal cards I've owned.