GPU Usage low while Gaming - Benchmarks are good. No Ideas left

[NWEraser]

 

Hi Guys,

my Problem is, that my GPU usage is like always under 80%. Sometimes I have spikes up to 90 but thats for seconds. And it cant be Game related, because I have this Issue in every game. (AC Valhalla, Cyberpunk, LoL, Cod MW/Warzone, Watchdogs Leagion, Star wars Fallen Order..)

System:

• Motherboard: MSI x470 Gaming Pro
• GPU: RTX 2070 from KFA2
• CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x
• PSU: 700W be quite
• RAM: 16GB Trident Z clocked to 2933

My CPU is also never at limit. Temps on CPU and GPU are fine as well.
What I already tried is:

• Different Driver clean Installed
• Windows reinstalled
• Different OC settings and no OC
• AV on and off
• Energymanagement settings adjusted and Nvidia Control panel all settings to max Perfomance
• In games is V-Sync disabled
• Installed a new PSU
• HPET disabled and enabled
• bios update

 

So the weird thing is, Games are working "fine". But if the GPU needs to do more, like when you drive in GTA or Cyberpunk, the FPS drops(obv) but the GPU usage drops too. So 2 sources of fps lose. Nothing is overheated or bottlenecking. Benchmarks are fine. GPU Usage while benchmarks is 99%.. Someone a clue?

[Mark Kaine]

that's, umm, normal... 

 

A benchmark will use a gpu 100% all the time, a game might just use 50-90% depending on settings and how actually demanding it is. 

 

Basically you don't want it to be at 100% ever, same as CPU, or RAM or anything really as that means it's at its absolute limit, literally, which can and usually will cause issues such as framedrops or glitches. (just FYI) 

 

PS: as for your framerate drops, have you tried with VSYNC on? 

 

[NWEraser]

But like i get sometimes 40fps in some games and setting the gaphics lower just makes the GPU usage lower. 

[Mark Kaine]

1 minute ago, NWEraser said:

But like i get sometimes 40fps in some games and setting the gaphics lower just makes the GPU usage lower. 

Thats also normal, lower settings will lower the usage apparently... 

 

 

However it kinda sounds like these games are just badly optimized because you shouldn't really get random drops like that, have you tried with VSYNC on? 

 

Have you also checked your CPU usage, on all cores, could be you're limited that way also. 

 

 

[NWEraser]

Yeah V-Sync doesnt change anything, and one single core is sometimes at 80% but not higher. But its weird that I have this issue on so many games. 

[NWEraser]

Here is it pretty good to see. Its Cyberpunkt on the lowest settings possible and it drops sometimes to 38 FPS but the GPU has in this moment 40Usage so it has much more Power to give....