I'm thinking I may have some issues with my 970 with other owners with a 970 can run the heaven benchmark at 1440p with the settings maxed out with tessellation and everything enabled. It would be a massive help.
https://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/
When i run the test after a system start up i get 594 but when I alt tab in and out and run the test again I get 759. Im going to try again with nvidia shadow play disabled to see if that makes a difference. I also get texture flickering in some games like bf4. I read elsewhere that the flickering can be resolved by reinstalling windows, which is something I really don't want to do. Would doing a refresh be as effective and fix the problem?