RTX 2080 ti stuck at 30 FPS

[EMJzero]

Hi, i just bought a MSI 2080 ti gaming X trio, and after setting all up for it, overclocking my 1440p monitor at 160Hz, making it detect by the OS and the NVidia control panel and everything...when i fire up BF1, Destiny 2, BF4, FarCry 4 and 5 (those are the titles I tested) the FPS counter never crosses 50 or so, staying always around 35 and 40, with all the above listed games. I have already tried all the different settings in every game, i turned on and off G-sync, both in the display itself and the software, i scaled resolution, i removed FPS caps, and even reinstalled some games...but nothing.

I have to say that i have a FX-8320E as CPU, and i know it's a bit old, but it's overclocked at 4GHz without problems and while in game never gets used more than 80%, so i think it can't be the bottleneck...i don't know a ton about the work that te motherboard (is a M5A97 EVO R2.0 by ASUS) is supposed to do in order to feed with data the GPU, may that be the problem, cause the motherboard is 5 years old like the CPU too!

There is one more thing to add, i still have windows 7...and i know, before someone criticise me that i had to upgrade all the pc and not only investing 1400$ on the GPU, but that has sense to me because the whole machine will get and upgrade in some months, and i really needed a new GPU cause i'm working with tensorflow and the 2080 ti was really appealing to me cause of it's tensorcores...those are the only things right now which seems to work fine, since the GPU is eating data perfectly...but still i can't game in my spear time!

 

If you need more data let me know!

 

HELP PLEAS...i'm getting mad looking at 30FPS in "2K"!

[Dedayog]

Just now, EMJzero said:

Hi, i just bought a MSI 2080 ti gaming X trio, and after setting all up for it, overclocking my 1440p monitor at 160Hz, making it detect by the OS and the NVidia control panel and everything...when i fire up BF1, Destiny 2, BF4, FarCry 4 and 5 (those are the titles I tested) the FPS counter never crosses 50 or so, staying always around 35 and 40, with all the above listed games. I have already tried all the different settings in every game, i turned on and off G-sync, both in the display itself and the software, i scaled resolution, i removed FPS caps, and even reinstalled some games...but nothing.

I have to say that i have a FX-8320E as CPU, and i know it's a bit old, but it's overclocked at 4GHz without problems and while in game never gets used more than 80%, so i think it can't be the bottleneck...i don't know a ton about the work that te motherboard (is a M5A97 EVO R2.0 by ASUS) is supposed to do in order to feed with data the GPU, may that be the problem, cause the motherboard is 5 years old like the CPU too!

There is one more thing to add, i still have windows 7...and i know, before someone criticise me that i had to upgrade all the pc and not only investing 1400$ on the GPU, but that has sense to me because the whole machine will get and upgrade in some months, and i really needed a new GPU cause i'm working with tensorflow and the 2080 ti was really appealing to me cause of it's tensorcores...those are the only things right now which seems to work fine, since the GPU is eating data perfectly...but still i can't game in my spear time!

 

If you need more data let me know!

 

HELP PLEAS...i'm getting mad looking at 30FPS in "2K"!

You have a $1400+ GPU with an FX8320?

 

WTF is wrong with you?

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, EMJzero said:

-8320E as CPU, and i know it's a bit old, but it's overclocked at 4GHz without problems and while in game never gets used more than 80%, so i think it can't be the bottleneck.

Telling ya right now, that CPU is a major bottleneck. 80% usage, maybe across all cores, but single core usages are definitely peaking at 100% I'm sure.

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, EMJzero said:

while in game never gets used more than 80%, so i think it can't be the bottleneck

Yes, it can. Lemme guess: you only looked at the total CPU-consumption and not each and every core separately? I mean, if you have two cores at 65% and two at 95%, the average will be 80%, but obviously, those two cores at 95% are definitely a bottleneck. Always look at every core, not just the overall average.

[Emanbaird]

Op, i hate to say this. You can't do this to us lol. Replace the FX 8320, that may not be the reason you are only getting 30 FPS, but i can guarantee you that's a bottleneck if i've ever seen one

[ConceptConnor]

https://thebottlenecker.com/calculator?d=1c8-1-1-64-64-5bce1f13&m=8ff7

I don't know how true this site's info is but you could at least give it a look?

[KarathKasun]

FX-8300 at 4.6ghz has issues hitting even 60FPS in many games.  If you have v-sync on at all it will reduce the FPS to the nearest multiple of your display refresh rate.

[EMJzero]

Thanks for the answers, I know that the FX was going to reduce my FPS, however the usage I was mentioning was on the main 4 cores, the others where around 60%, it’s fine to know that may be the CPU because as I said it’ll get an upgrade in a few months, so that’s fine, meanwhile I still have the option to overclock, since as it’s now, under full load it reaches 50 degrees @3.8GHz, so I may be able to go up until...I don’t know, does someone of you have experience overclocking this kind of CPU, at which voltage level should I stop?

[Dedayog]

7 hours ago, EMJzero said:

Thanks for the answers, I know that the FX was going to reduce my FPS, however the usage I was mentioning was on the main 4 cores, the others where around 60%, it’s fine to know that may be the CPU because as I said it’ll get an upgrade in a few months, so that’s fine, meanwhile I still have the option to overclock, since as it’s now, under full load it reaches 50 degrees @3.8GHz, so I may be able to go up until...I don’t know, does someone of you have experience overclocking this kind of CPU, at which voltage level should I stop?

Forgive me, but what's with the 2080Ti and the FX?  Why not upgrade now?  

 

You're going to OC a chip to get a tiny bit more performance out of it,  if you go from 30 FPS to 35 FPS I'll be shocked.  It just doesn't have the juice.

[nhatduy1611]

Pls get yourself a better cpu . 9700k+2080ti will be perfect.

[EMJzero]

I’ll do the upgrade as soon as possible...I haven’t done it yet because...i’m honestly waiting for Ryzen 3 ahahah, that’s all it’s holding me back from upgrading now ahah

[EMJzero]

Just an update after a full afternoon of tweakings: now the good old FX-8320E is up to 4.5GHz (20.0 on the multiplier and 215 on the base), with 2700MHz on the north bridge, 1766MHz on the RAM all supported by 1.325V on the CPU and 1.35V on the NB...it’s perfectly stable at 72^C under full load and ~50^C in games! Now I can reach 70FPS with everything Ultra in BF1 for example, around 80 in destiny 2 and so on, everything got a +100% in average! Now i’ll definitely be able to wait for the third gen ryzen! Thank you for all the help, if someone of you have more experience than me at overclocking, pleas, let me now if i’m missing some details that may improve even more the overall performance or simply reduce maybe the now stunning 170W tdp...

[Dedayog]

Just now, EMJzero said:

Just an update after a full afternoon of tweakings: now the good old FX-8320E is up to 4.5GHz (20.0 on the multiplier and 215 on the base), with 2700MHz on the north bridge, 1766MHz on the RAM all supported by 1.325V on the CPU and 1.35V on the NB...it’s perfectly stable at 72^C under full load and ~50^C in games! Now I can reach 70FPS with everything Ultra in BF1 for example, around 80 in destiny 2 and so on, everything got a +100% in average! Now i’ll definitely be able to wait for the third gen ryzen! Thank you for all the help, if someone of you have more experience than me at overclocking, pleas, let me now if i’m missing some details that may improve even more the overall performance or simply reduce maybe the now stunning 170W tdp...

Interesting.  500MHz boost and a few OC's to double your FPS.  Magic CPU you have there, congrats!

[EMJzero]

2 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Interesting.  500MHz boost and a few OC's to double your FPS.  Magic CPU you have there, congrats!

That was not magic, it’s stock clock is 3.6GHz, so it’s around a +1GHz, that’s quite legit ahah

[Dedayog]

Just now, EMJzero said:

That was not magic, it’s stock clock is 3.6GHz, so it’s around a +1GHz, so it’s quite legit ahah

You said it was clocked at 4GHz, so you bumped it up another 500MHz.

 

I think you were sandbagging the issue a bit.  At the very least it wasn't so dire as you made it out to be.

 

Glad you're having playable frames tho.

[EMJzero]

1 minute ago, jstudrawa said:

You said it was clocked at 4GHz, so you bumped it up another 500MHz.

 

I think you were sandbagging the issue a bit.  At the very least it wasn't so dire as you made it out to be.

 

Glad you're having playable frames tho.

I apologize, my first post was quite uncorrect, since it was in theory overclocked at 4GHz, but the frequency was increased via multiplier, and that was not influencing the NB, so the overall performance was nearly constrained to the stock 3.6GHz...my bad!