Low FPS with low CPU and GPU Usage (RTX 3070)

[aaron.exe]

I recently was fortunate enough to upgrade my GTX 1080 for a founders edition RTX 3070, but the performance I've been getting from it is incredibly underwhelming. My current specs are:

 

-RTX 3070 Founders Edition

-i7-6700K overclocked to 4.5 Ghz

-Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Motherboard

-16GB of 2133Mhz DDR4 RAM

-Enermax 850W Gold Powersupply

-1TB WD Black SN750 SSD

-Dell 1440p 144hz G-sync monitor

 

My first thought was that my CPU was simply bottlenecking my 3070, and I'd just upgrade it when I have the chance, however I keep noticing that the CPU isn't being maxed out in any game that I play-- usually sitting around 40-50%, though sometimes higher. I checked to see if one of the cores was being maxed on on HWmonitor: none of them were. I removed the overclock and set it to stock to see if it made any difference, but I got the same FPS in every game I played. I'm sitting around only 120 FPS in Valorant and Minecraft (and less than 60 with shaders), I'm getting only around 30 fps with maxed settings in Battlefield V, and flucuating around 100 in Battlefield 2 and 70 in GTA V (all at 1440p). Meanwhile, my GPU will sit as low as 2% in some games. Is there something else that's preventing me from getting decent performance?

 

Tl;dr: I'm getting low fps with low cpu and gpu usage, with no cores maxed out, and running at 1440p. 

[Tech87]

Well, you're going to see a bit of a bottleneck with your older z170 board which only supports PCIe 3.0.

Ram running at 2133mhz is on the slower side.

The cpu is also on the older side and not a great match with a new 30 series GPU.

 

Have you tried different driver versions to see if there are any noticeable improvements?

[bcredeur97]

18 minutes ago, Tech87 said:

Well, you're going to see a bit of a bottleneck with your older z170 board which only supports PCIe 3.0.

Ram running at 2133mhz is on the slower side.

The cpu is also on the older side and not a great match with a new 30 series GPU.

 

Have you tried different driver versions to see if there are any noticeable improvements?

I get over 100FPS in battlefield V with a 1080ti and a i7-3960X @ 4.4 with 1600MHz DDR3. He has a real issue if he's only getting 30 with what he has.

[bcredeur97]

OP check the windows power plan. Try high performance maybe? I've seen it throttle CPU's in some cases, even on desktops:


I'd also maybe try reinstalling the GPU driver, maybe use DDU so that you start from a clean slate.

 

I do want to note, that CPU usage isn't always a great indicator because some games will only use 1-2 cores and not every core you have. Battlefield V should give everything a full workout though..

[SkilledRebuilds]

3 hours ago, Tech87 said:

Well, you're going to see a bit of a bottleneck with your older z170 board which only supports PCIe 3.0.

Ram running at 2133mhz is on the slower side.

The cpu is also on the older side and not a great match with a new 30 series GPU.

 

Have you tried different driver versions to see if there are any noticeable improvements?

 

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I get over 100FPS in battlefield V with a 1080ti and a i7-3960X @ 4.4 with 1600MHz DDR3. He has a real issue if he's only getting 30 with what he has.

Same here with my 2080Ti and 4790K 4C8T 4.7Ghz paired with 2400Mhz DDR3, while CPU usage is High, performance is rock solid better than OP.
GTAV should be 100-120FPS and towards a CPU bottleneck around 110-150fps...
BF5 should be no where near 30FPS...
He clearly has an issue internally, let alone seeing the GPU usage values drop so hard.

 

Basic trouble shooting applies... remove driver normally and then remove junk traces with DDU, reboot, reinstall driver.