support 5700 XT Low GPU Usage with Low FPS in some games

[Courage]

Hi everybody, first time poster here.

 

I got my XFX 5700xt Thicc II Pro about a month ago. Most of it has been smooth sailing, the online games I play the most perform really well and I am very happy with my purchase. These games are Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege and Apex Legends. Benchmarks also faired pretty well, got decent results with 3DMark as well as the Unigine benchmarks.

 

But for some reasons some specific games suffer from low gpu usage and low fps. The Witcher 3 won't go over 50 FPS, no matter my settings. I just wanted to test it because I've already finished it so I marked it as an odd one and just uninstalled it.

 

But then I started playing Subnautica. It won't go over 50FPS either, and it's a very fun game. My GPU usage is most of the time on 40%, occasionally 60 or something and CPU won't go over 50% either, but it looks choppy as hell and it is very annoying to play like this. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Kingdom Come: Deliverance seems to be affeccted too.

I play on an LG 29" 21:9 75Hz monitor, Ryzen 1600 OC 3.5, Corsair Vengace 2x8GB RAM on XMP Profile 2 3000MHz

I reinstalled windows 2 weeks prior to intalling this card, have tried turning all game boost options off, uninstalling AfterBurner, DDU, Undervolt, Power Limit, OC, Fan Curve. I'm a little bit out of ideas.

 

The games I've tried that run "normal" are Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends, GTA V, Abzu,The Division 2, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, CS:GO, Hitman 2, Control, Quantum Break, Dishonored 2, Fortnite, Warframe.

 

I'll try to test more games and get a better understanding of this issue. It is very weird and infuriating that such a card won't perform as it should in very specific games.

 

[Jae Tee]

Possible cpu bottleneck. What cpu do you have?

[732]

2 minutes ago, Jae Tee said:

Possible cpu bottleneck. What cpu do you have?

He said his CPU usage didn't go above 50%.

[Jae Tee]

Just now, 732 said:

He said his CPU usage didn't go above 50%.

Oh....oops! 

 

Possible ram bottleneck than, or maybe you need proper drivers?

[732]

Try reinstalling drivers.

 

What are you ram specs?

[Nena Trinity]

I suspect it could be the driver version, look up on reddit to find a stable decent driver. You know how to use DDU it seems so I suspect I wont have to tell you what to do onve you find a reliable driver.

[Haro]

13 minutes ago, Courage said:

But then I started playing Subnautica. It won't go over 50FPS either, and it's a very fun game

Subnautica has notoriously bad optimization never runs well for me 

 

13 minutes ago, Courage said:

reinstalled windows 2 weeks prior to intalling this card, have tried turning all game boost options off, uninstalling AfterBurner, DDU, Undervolt, Power Limit, OC, Fan Curve. I'm a little bit out of ideas.

Check your temps

If you have any overclock get rid of it 

 

14 minutes ago, Courage said:

Ryzen 1600 OC 3.5, Corsair Vengace 2x8GB RAM on XMP Profile 2 3000MHz

Make sure you up the soc voltage and then try

What PSU do you have 

[Courage]

41 minutes ago, Jae Tee said:

Possible cpu bottleneck. What cpu do you have?

It's in the post, Ryzen 1600 OC 3.5. Sorry for the wall of text but I thought it'd be better to have it all donw from the start.

35 minutes ago, 732 said:

Try reinstalling drivers.

 

What are you ram specs?

It's in the post, Corsair Vengance 2x8GB XMP Profile 2 3000MHz. Sorry for the wall of text but I thought it'd be better to have it all donw from the start.

[Courage]

38 minutes ago, Nena360 said:

I suspect it could be the driver version, look up on reddit to find a stable decent driver. You know how to use DDU it seems so I suspect I wont have to tell you what to do onve you find a reliable driver.

I have the 20.4.2 ones, recommended because of stability but I'm gonna try latest optional and post an update.

[Jae Tee]

4 minutes ago, Courage said:

Sorry for the wall of text but I thought it'd be better to have it all donw from the start.

You'r not wrong, im just an idiot.

[Courage]

38 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Subnautica has notoriously bad optimization never runs well for me

Thanks for the reply that at least gives me solace lol

 

40 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Check your temps

If you have any overclock get rid of it

Temps are good too, CPU never goes over 60° usually sits around 50°.

 

40 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Make sure you up the soc voltage and then try

What PSU do you have 

Thermaltake Smart 700W 80+ White Certified PSU

[Haro]

Just now, Courage said:

Thanks for the reply that at least gives me solace lol

 

Temps are good too, CPU never goes over 60° usually sits around 50°.

 

Thermaltake Smart 700W 80+ White Certified PSU

Then I guess the last thing is to ddu and install the latest drivers 

Good luck

[Courage]

Quick update guys. I tried DDU with latest optional drivers. Shadow Tactics is fixed. Kingdom Come Deliverance, is still unstable but much higher FPS performance. Subnautica is still hit or miss, it'll jump to 75 FPS for a while then back to 50 and so on, seems like the card gets stuck sometimes and then starts pumping again.

I guess it's pure driver stability. Thank you all for your help and time!

[Courage]

Another update, performance gains  are evident if you up the minimum clock speed in Radeon Control Panel, I'm going for 1900MHz as the minimum, don't forget to up the voltage too or your PC will crash.

GTA V is suffering from low usage problem too

Oh well hopefully this gets solved in the future. This is honestly the strangest issue, the card refuses to use its potential lol

[Nena Trinity]

1 hour ago, Courage said:

Another update, performance gains  are evident if you up the minimum clock speed in Radeon Control Panel, I'm going for 1900MHz as the minimum, don't forget to up the voltage too or your PC will crash.

GTA V is suffering from low usage problem too

Oh well hopefully this gets solved in the future. This is honestly the strangest issue, the card refuses to use its potential lol

If its driver related someone will report the bug and it will be fixed soon probably.