Low Ventus 5080 Steel Nomad score, help?

I'm trying to see if these numbers for my 5080 are normal or not. I get 7680 without OC and with OC I get around 8250 in Steel Nomad. In TimeSpy with OC, it's around 27,000.

These are my specs for context:

CPU: 9800x3d (i have turned on PBO and done -20 to all cores, this didn't change anything)

GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Ventus 3X OC Plus (card has a 100% power limit )

RAM: 64GB 6000MHZ CL30 RAM Patriot Viper Venom (2 x 32GB)

MOBO: MSI X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI

CASE: Antec Flux Pro White (custom fan curve set on the 6 case fans it comes with)

CPU Cooler: Peerless Assassin 140

PSU: MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5

SSD: 2TB SAMSUNG 990 PRO

OS: Windows 11 Pro

Monitor: AW3225QF Alienware 4K 240HZ OLED

These are things I've tried:

• ReBAR is on in BIOS and NVIDIA
• Turned off VSYNC and GSYNC
• I have all 112 ROPS for the 5080
• GPU Z shows PCIE x16 5.0 @ x16 5.0 idle and during render test (i have 3 SSDs in slots m_1 m_2 and m_4 but per mobo manual that shouldnt cause any bandwidth issues)
• I've turned on best performance mode in Win 11 power settings
• x3d is not enabled in bios and gaming mode is turned off
• I updated BIOS to latest version
• Memory context restore is on

Here is a link to the highest steel nomad score I've got after much testing, with OC of +375 core clock and +1000 memory: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/131191911

And this is a GPU Z image during a steel nomad test (sorry for phone pic, didn't wanna take a screenshot and alt tab during test)

Based on other posts, it seems like base score for the Ventus 5080 should be ~8000 so is it bad that I need an OC to get to 8200? Does anyone have any other ideas for things I can try, or is all of this normal?

EDIT: I found a test I did from when I first build this PC 3 weeks ago and the base score was much higher at 8189 (this is with no OC): https://www.3dmark.com/sn/4825167

Any ideas why it's suddenly much lower? Is it because I did that old test on a 1440p monitor and my current tests are on my 4k monitor?