RTX 3080 Lower than expected FPS

[Teniralc]

 

Hey all,

 

I'm running into some issues with games at slightly lower framerates than I would expect given my hardware. My rig is:

 

RTX 3080 Aorus Xtreme
Ryzen 5900X

32GB 3600 G.Skill Trident Z Neo RAM

Noctua NH-U12A

Western Digital WD BLACK SN750 NVMe M.2 2280 1TB

Crucial P5 2TB 3D NAND NVMe

GIGABYTE B550I AORUS PRO AX AM4 AMD B550 Mini-ITX Motherboard

Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold Full Modular, 850W

Cooler Master NR200 SFF Small Form Factor Mini-ITX

 

Right now I'm running into issues in a couple of games I play, Warzone and Battlefield V. I'm running the highest settings in both games at 1440p.

 

In Warzone, I average 110fps, with no noticeable increase when turning my render resolution down to 50%, GPU power draw just drops from ~310W to 250W. I can get up to ~130 fps by turning everything down to low but I'd expect that to be significantly higher. Every couple of  games I'll get stuck down at 70-90fps which is only fixed by either restarting the game or forcing my game to 4K render resolution and then turning it back down to 1440p. I've noticed GPU power dips when this happens, down to around ~260W and does not recover until one of the fixes is applied. This is not brought on by alt-tabbing or anything. It seems to be random.

 

In Battlefield V on Devastation, one of the more taxing maps, I average 130fps on ultra without raytracing. MSI Afterburner shows GPU is largely held back by the voltage limit with an occasional hit to the power limit. Wattage bounces around between 325W-340W. This video shows an FE3080 and 5800X running the same map with identical settings averaging ~160fps, a >20% improvement, all the while using less GPU power (~310W) with a lower grade CPU.

 

I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers, updated mobo BIOS and GPU BIOS.

Not sure how to determine what's holding my rig back at this point beyond the obvious. Any ideas? Thanks!

[RedDeath_]

The performance might be limited by settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

[emosun]

You arent measuring wattage with the internal sensors are you

[Teniralc]

4 hours ago, emosun said:

You arent measuring wattage with the internal sensors are you

Just the numbers given by Nvidia’s performance overlay and MSI Afterburner, so I would assume yes to the internal sensors. Unfortunately I don’t have any external tools.

[Teniralc]

4 hours ago, RedDeath_ said:

The performance might be limited by settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Which settings would you recommend checking?

[RedDeath_]

10 hours ago, Teniralc said:

Which settings would you recommend checking?

 

 

You can check or test with different settings in the global settings or program settings as you wish :

 

1) Max frame rate (unlocked)

2) Virtual sync (personal preference)

3) Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames (I don't know if this only works for VR apps) (I set it to 1)

4) Threaded optimization (Auto)

5) CUDA  - GPUs (Make sure your GPU is selected)

6) Power management mode (Probably maximum performance)

 

 

Also, I don't know if your RTX 3080 has a control app but you can check if there's something like a power-saving mode enabled.