Gmod, LODs saving no performance?

[Tangyboxhead]

I run a geforce 960 graphics card

I have spawned around 330 dynamic props(same model) of mine i made

WHen close, its 3k tri's
when medium, its 1.5k
when far its 500

I have seen no performance change from close to far at all.

Obviously its not going to be 1/6th of the processing needed when far from close, as there are memory and its still gonna be 330 props there. But I would have expected some upped performance.

Did I do something wrong?

QC:

$modelname	"bogie/BRM1B.mdl"

$include "DefineBones.qci"
$scale 0.5

$body mybody	"BRM1B.smd"

$lod 40
{
      replacemodel "BRM1B.smd" "BRM1BLOD.smd"
}

$lod 180
{
      replacemodel "BRM1B.smd" "BRM1BLOD2.smd"
}

$cdmaterials	"models\bogie"



$sequence idle "BRM1BAnim1.smd" loop fps 4

[editline]4th July 2016[/editline]

I turned on mat_wireframe 1

the lods seems to raise fps, but none are raised when mat_wireframe is off