I have something similar and much more severe than that. 8.1 is 5 times better than what I've had. I've noticed that, in my case, it gets to 41 milliseconds. I cannot explain this myself. It happens when the camera gets into a certain position. Just a change of about 40 quants, refresh time goes from around 8 milliseconds to 40. Go back down about 40 quants and it returns to 8.... I'm baffled over it myself.
PS nice scene.