So I’m not sure why this happened but I had a 9900x paired with a 5080 msi gaming trio, 1000W psu, X870e-p msi motherboard, 32gb 6000CL36 RAM on EXPO1. I got pretty good scores in all benchmarks with an undervolt/overclock on the 5080 at .975V at 3150MHz
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/62107307
I was more or less hitting 28000 consistently on Time Spy and 60000 on Fire Strike
I figured I wanted better scores cuz big number make monkey brain happy so I got a 9950x3D this Sunday.
Kept the same gpu settings, EXPO1 enabled, but somehow i’m now getting 25000
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/62206877
I’m not maintaining 100% gpu utilization during the runs for some reason. I’ve reinstalled windows, reinstalled graphics drivers, downgraded graphics drivers, updated BIOS, undervolted the CPU, tried different gpu undervolts/overclocks, but my scores just aren’t going higher. Weird thing is, on Time Spy Extreme and Steel Nomad, i’m getting comparable/better scores. It’s only Time Spy and Fire Strike that are lower. Any guesses?
Edit: Interesting development, I enabled 3D gaming mode to disable CCD1 and suddenly my gpu score jumped to 35.5k but cpu score droped to 10.5k. Soooo I guess Time Spy just isn’t playing well with the caching between the CCD’s or something on my cpu which causes bottlenecking. I’m not knowledgable enough to fix it lol so I guess i’ll just live with it and reference Time Spy Extreme