bottleneck performance?

[Judge_Xero]

@einzele

Yeah it is just so weird you are getting only 20 FPS.

My CPU is the same generation and 400Mhz isnt going to make a 90% FPS difference.
The 970 actually benches higher than the R9 290 in DX9 as well.

I wonder if you could compare yours to another with a 970 in Mor Dhona on standard desktop. That might get you a baseline for Max and Standard settings to try and pinpoint the bottleneck.

Also - when you install new NVidia drivers, do you got to custom -> Clean Installation?

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Edited: I wonder if it has something to do with NVidia's PhysX on the 900 Series Cards.
Try going into the NVidia Control Panel -> Set PhysX Configuration

It's probably on Auto, so try it with either the CPU or GPU while playing and see if it makes a difference.

[Raist]

400 MHz can be quite impactful depending on how it scales with other components. The original benchmark performance scaled almost in direct ratio on my older C2D system. 4100-4700 at 3ghz up to 6200-6700 when pushed to around 4ghz depending on various configurations when pushing things to the edge of stability to see if I could raise quality and stay 30fps or better.

I also found that past certain thresholds (about 3.6ghz on the CPU and about 10% over stock on GPU core) I started getting more bang for the buck by ramping up memory clocks--both at the system level and graphics card levels. You can reach a point where it is less of a raw horsepower problem and more of a data transfer issue.