Performance problems with 2080ti

[SamCharter]

Hello! i'm samcharter and I am new here, thought it would be a great community to maybe answer some of my questions.

 

Here's the story;

I recently purchased a watercooled EVGA RTX 2080ti XC ULTRA, upgraded up from a ASUS STRIX 1080ti.

 

So I build the computer and the loop, and try to play some games. I don't notice any difference in gameplay, sometimes it was even worse so I try to look into it using GPU-z to find that my card doesn't go over 50-60 degrees, and the PerfCap says VRel, which after some research, I still don't really understand what it means. I've repasted the GPU in case that was the problem to finally succeed in getting it to perform a lot better, allowing the gpu to push alot more, going up to 80 degrees and getting alot more FPS, only to go back as it was before after some time.

 

I have tried updating my motherboard's BIOS to no success. getting the power and temp limit higher using Afterburner and EVGA X1 with still no success. I have attached a GPU-z screenshot while in-game

 

Thank you, any help is appreciated

[Shiv78]

Does your GPU hit 97-99% usage while playing games?

[SamCharter]

7 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Does your GPU hit 97-99% usage while playing games?

No, as seen in the attached GPUZ screenshot it only reaches about 50% or lower. It's happening when playing very heavy games like modern warfare at 3840x1080 resolution

[LIGISTX]

7 minutes ago, SamCharter said:

No, as seen in the attached GPUZ screenshot it only reaches about 50% or lower. It's happening when playing very heavy games like modern warfare at 3840x1080 resolution

What are you system specs? And you have a 240 rad for both the CPU and GPU..? That.... really isn't enough rad space. Is your CPU thermal throttling? I suppose if the fans on that rad are at 100% it wouldn't dangerously hot on the CPU, but I would check CPU temps and make sure its working as intended.

 

Also, the fact the GPU even hit 85c at all.............. on water, indicates something is indeed wrong. But what, I am not sure yet. My 2080 usually runs in the 40's to low 50's in games. Usually about 48-49. 85 on water is about 25c higher than it should ever get, although with only a single radiator maybe this isn't true.

 

Anyways, full system spec would help. And CPU temps while in game.

[SamCharter]

3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

What are you system specs? And you have a 240 rad for both the CPU and GPU..? That.... really isn't enough rad space. Is your CPU thermal throttling? I suppose if the fans on that rad are at 100% it wouldn't dangerously hot on the CPU, but I would check CPU temps and make sure its working as intended.

 

Also, the fact the GPU even hit 85c at all.............. on water, indicates something is indeed wrong. But what, I am not sure yet. My 2080 usually runs in the 40's to low 50's in games. Usually about 48-49. 85 on water is about 25c higher than it should ever get, although with only a single radiator maybe this isn't true.

 

Anyways, full system spec would help. And CPU temps while in game.

Here is a list of specs:

Mobo: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON
GPU: EVGA RTX 2080ti XC ULTRA
CPU: i5-9600k

RAM: 2x8gb CORSAIR VENGEANCE

CPU is around 50 degrees in game, which indicates it isn't throttling. I agree for the 240 rad being too small for GPU + CPU loop, but I bought the GPU bundled with the loop so it came with the 240 rad. I'm waiting on a new case and 2x360 rads to upgrade so it will help, but i'm not sure that's the reason my gpu won't push past 80fps. It did once after I repasted the GPU put it came back to bringing low performances after I stopped playing. As if it recognized it's thermal limit wasn't 50 and could push more, but I don't understand what caused it to go back to being so limited

[LIGISTX]

2 minutes ago, SamCharter said:

Here is a list of specs:

Mobo: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON
GPU: EVGA RTX 2080ti XC ULTRA
CPU: i5-9600k

RAM: 2x8gb CORSAIR VENGEANCE

CPU is around 50 degrees in game, which indicates it isn't throttling. I agree for the 240 rad being too small for GPU + CPU loop, but I bought the GPU bundled with the loop so it came with the 240 rad. I'm waiting on a new case and 2x360 rads to upgrade so it will help, but i'm not sure that's the reason my gpu won't push past 80fps. It did once after I repasted the GPU put it came back to bringing low performances after I stopped playing. As if it recognized it's thermal limit wasn't 50 and could push more, but I don't understand what caused it to go back to being so limited

I mean, not that its causing this... but a 9600k is a sorta lopsided CPU to go with a 2080ti, but, such is life I suppose.

 

What speeds is the CPU hitting in games? The thermal pads are correct on the GPU water block? As in there are pads between the block and the RAM and the VRM areas? It sounds like the card is underclocking... Looking at your GPU-z readout, its showing your VRAM as 1895 MHz? Is that correct? Verify that with like MSI Afterburner. If that is the case, your VRAM is running WAY slow. That should be ~7000. Unless that is showing your actual RAM speed, which in that case, do you have 4000 MHz RAM?

 

Check in MSI Afterburner what the GPU core clock and Memory clocks are while in game. And check CPU speed while in game. 

[SamCharter]

My CPU speeds hit around 4.3 to 4.6ghz As for the thermal pads, I think they were correctly placed, I attached a picture of the GPU before I repasted it.

 

Memory clock on After burner is at 7000 steady.

 

My ram speeds are clocked at 3200MHz

 

These are the readouts for GPU-Z:

Spoiler

GPU Clock: 1905
Memory Clock: 1750
GPU Temp: 50
GPU Load: about 52%

 

 

[kankleator]

I'm having the exact same issue as you with my gigabyte 2080 ti. I'm just using the aircooler it came with at stock settings and my card is also not reaching high utilization. I cant even hit my monitors 144 hz refresh rate because the utilization is low on both my CPU and GPU. My temps on the air cooler hit 70-75c full load on the GPU. CPU temps are very low, not an issue. I cant find a solution.

[SamCharter]

2 hours ago, kankleator said:

I'm having the exact same issue as you with my gigabyte 2080 ti. I'm just using the aircooler it came with at stock settings and my card is also not reaching high utilization. I cant even hit my monitors 144 hz refresh rate because the utilization is low on both my CPU and GPU. My temps on the air cooler hit 70-75c full load on the GPU. CPU temps are very low, not an issue. I cant find a solution.

I found out what was making it happen. In my case it was because of the CPU running at stock speeds would bottleneck the GPU. As soon as I tried to overclock the CPU, everything was buttery smooth. Temps are at 70 for both under load which is not bad considering a single 240 rad is cooling both at the same time.

[kankleator]

27 minutes ago, SamCharter said:

I found out what was making it happen. In my case it was because of the CPU running at stock speeds would bottleneck the GPU. As soon as I tried to overclock the CPU, everything was buttery smooth. Temps are at 70 for both under load which is not bad considering a single 240 rad is cooling both at the same time.

Thats strange overclocking helped given the processor wasnt hitting max utilization. Im using a brand new ryzen 5 3600 which i think is basically the same as your cpu power wise. Maybe I should just return the 3600 and pick up a 3900x.

[Xkillerpn]

Any cpu with less the 8 cores will bottleneck the 2080ti.

 

-3700x

-3800x

-9700k

-9900k

-3900x

 

Chose your cpu 

 

DOnt forget it depends on the game also.