I think the 496.76 drivers seem to improve a lot of things not just firestrike.
Nvidia Driver: 496.76 vs 511.23 - God of War [New Driver=Less FPS] - YouTube
A lot of comments saying they lost 10-20FPS in games with the newer driver,
Edit: So changing drivers to 496.76 and 9c/18t resulted in this
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Going up to 10c/20t tanks the combined score.
I did crack 47000+ graphics score when testing core / thread count. But that was at 8c/8t by accidernt so the physics and overall score was way down.
Hopefully I can crack it again sometime with 9c/18t enabled
Edit 2: Went back to 512.59 drivers. Combined score tanks even on 9c/18t. So it appars it's a driver and core/thread count issue.