RTX 3070 low performance / usage

[Marty444]

Hello guys,

First of all let me list my spec because it is important for this topic.

RTX 3070
Ryzen 5 3600
16 GB RAM (2400 - I know, should upgrade this)

750w PSU gold seasonic
Monitor is Full HD 144Hz (HP)

I am experiencing something that  is really weird. I have recently upgraded from my GTX 1050ti to RTX 3070 (because of cyberpunk).
Since my spec should be running this game on like 2k with medium RTX settings smoothly, I have to ask around if somebody experiencing something similar.

This game has problem exceed 60 FPS, no matter what setting you put on. Game obviously put everything on ULTRA preset, but you getting FPS drops from 60 to 35 FPS which totally ruining game experience.
Even weirder is that it does not get any better when you change settings to LOW! you still getting 60 FPS tops with drops to 35.

The most funny thing is, best performance I could reach is to set resolution of the game to 4k with settings on low!
Then i was getting even 100 FPS when area was not crowded. how is that even possible?

I have to also point out that these behavior where performance does not get better also applies to Call of Duty Warzone.
When you set there everything to ULTRA + Raytraying you getting MORE FPS (about 130)  then you set everything to low / medium (around 100)

GPU usage during the play does not exceed 50% when you set it to LOW/MEDIUM.
But is reaching around 80-90% of usage when you set to 4k resolution + low settings.


What troubleshooting was done:

Driver has been reinstalled with DDU from Nvidia page

We tried put more power for GPU in afterburner

Tried to change cables from GPU to PSU (from single to double)
Updated BIOS and chipset

We have tried way more things to be honest, but at this point I am too exhausted and sad from troubleshooting this.

Hope somebody can help. 

Thank you.

[Alphafuhny]

i have the same issue and i have done extreme troubleshooting i tried all the bioses that support the 30 series and i have tried all the mobo bioses that support my cpu i have given up and its definitely nvidias rushed drivers

i have a ryzen 5 3600x

and an rtx 3070

[thepizzatree]

I found a fix for this, hopefully it works for you to. I had the same issue on my 3070, i7-9700K (4.9Ghz) 32GB 3200 RAM.  RDR2 on any settings ran at max 35 FPS and GPU usage was between 1 and 15 % 

 

I spent A LONG TIME troubleshooting this, fresh windows etc.

What i found that worked, was completely removing Nvidia drivers and GeForce Experience, and then installing this spesific driver version "457.51" 

 

I then went to 80 - 90 FPS in RDR2 Ultra 1440p and i noticed the change in other games as well.

 

Hopefully this works for anyone else with this issue and you will save yourself from doing all the things i did, including swapping out all PCI-E power cables. 

[cragnar]

I was having no issues with mine (5800x and 3070FE) before I did a mobo/cpu swap and now I'm getting performance issues just like you. Try what thepizzatree said, I'm going to right now.

[thepizzatree]

I forgott to mention: I would highly recommend using DDU (Display driver Uninstaller) by guru3d when removing the old drivers, since display drivers can sometimes be a pain to get rid of.

 

I had to to it twice to get it to work since i did it wrong the first time, boot up windows in safe mode and run the uninstaller, then install the new driver directly.