RTX2080Ti, 110% Power but only 75% usage ???

[Seabottom]

I just installed proper case fans and my temps dropped from consistent 88°C to 65°C on the GPU. Great.

However, playing Quern, I noticed that it consistently peaks at 110% Power Limit, but still hovers around 75% GPU usage again, at 65°C

My framerate is also not great, averaging 70-ish through a play session, my monitor is a 100Hz so it's noticeable.

How is this possible?

 

Running TimeSpy or Firestrike Benchmarks, gives me expected results, 100% usage and 110% Power Limit. 

Except that when I ran the TimeSpy Demo, there were no consistent results at all. Only terrible usage of everything overall, and no FPS.

This is really strange.

 

Is it because I am using Optane + 7200 rpm HDD for games?

MY CPU is i7-8700 and 2x8 GB Ram

 

GPU - Temp, Usage, Clock, Power Limit

[jones177]

At 1440p that is the usual. Lower at 1080p.

Here is GTA 5 on ultra with a FTW3 Ultra 2080 ti and a i7 8086k at 5ghz all cores.

Notice that the frames are the same at 1080p and 1440p.

 

Also your CPU is not capable of getting all the frames out of a 2080 ti. I even retired my i7 8700k because it was about 10 frames behind my 5ghz Intel CPU. With a GTX 1080 ti it was only 3 to 5 frames behind.

Here are my old Times Spy results. This is my i7 8700k with max stable overclock of 4.7ghz all cores.

This is a i7 8086k at 5ghz.

 

HDDs do knock down frames in some open world games. I thought something was wrong with my computer after installing Assassin's Creed Odyssey by mistake on one.

Now I no longer have them on my computers.

 

It gets worse with 3080 tis. Now my i7 8086ks are retired since they are way behind my 5800x and i9 10900kf.

The i9 9900k I am using now kept up with the 5800x with a 2080 ti but now it is being left behind with a 3080 ti as well. It will be gone before next gen.

[OneOfYas]

Your CPU's are not that fast anymore is why.

5600x kills the 8700k at 5ghz in PCSX2 for example. Completely single threaded load.

Don't believe me.. register on their forums and go to the hardware section, their latest submission is insane.

[Seabottom]

It's not an 8700k, it's a non-k, I'm running stock at 4.3 GHz. I didn't think my CPU was holding me back, it's only at 50% utilization in the screenshot anyway.

 

My question was why is my GPU not being 100% used if the frames are less than my monitors refresh rate? I could understand if I was at 80% usage and 100FPS, but when there's clearly more frames to be pushed and all the hardware is only at half load, surely more FPS could be produced?

[--SID--]

5 hours ago, Seabottom said:

it's only at 50% utilization in the screenshot anyway.

You have to check the CPU usage per core with MSI Afterburner.

[OneOfYas]

13 hours ago, Seabottom said:

It's not an 8700k, it's a non-k, I'm running stock at 4.3 GHz. I didn't think my CPU was holding me back, it's only at 50% utilization in the screenshot anyway.

 

My question was why is my GPU not being 100% used if the frames are less than my monitors refresh rate? I could understand if I was at 80% usage and 100FPS, but when there's clearly more frames to be pushed and all the hardware is only at half load, surely more FPS could be produced?

Core usage is not the issue when a single core can only deliver so many FPS per core, if a game is stuck using 4 threads for example, you will never see it hit max usage.

[Seabottom]

4 hours ago, OneOfYas said:

Core usage is not the issue when a single core can only deliver so many FPS per core, if a game is stuck using 4 threads for example, you will never see it hit max usage.

I see, so it's down to bad game optimization? I enabled OSD for all 12 core usage and started up my game again and I could see that while the usage jumps from core to core, there's only ever 4 cores at one time that's maxed out, but it's not the same 4 cores, it alternates between all 12.

So you're saying that if I had a faster CPU per core clock, then I would see an increase in game performance? Not cool, CPU's are expensive