New GPU questions

[badbratkat]

I have a Ryzen 5 3600, x570 motherboard, and had a GTX 1070. I just upgraded to a RTX 3070 ti and I have some questions. Before in games my gpu usage was at 99% with the new gpu its only around 50-70% sometimes dipping low as 30%. Why is my new gpu not using all of its power? Also my cpu% is up more now. Sometimes the cpu% goes up more then then gpu%. In CoD Warzone and Back 4 Blood cpu% will be at 50-60% and gpu only 70% max, with my 1070 my cpu was only 20-30% and gpu was 99%. Is something wrong with my setup? Also I have a 650 gold psu evga supernova g3, do I need a bigger psu?

[Chris Pratt]

It's most likely a CPU bottleneck. What resolution and quality settings are you running and what games are you playing? You may need to run at a higher resolution/quality to shift more of the burden back onto the GPU since it's significantly faster than what you had before.

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3 hours ago, badbratkat said:

Also my cpu% is up more now. Sometimes the cpu% goes up more then then gpu%. In CoD Warzone and Back 4 Blood cpu% will be at 50-60%

Install MSI Afterburner and measure the CPU usage per core.

 

Uninstall GeForce drivers with DDU and install the latest driver after that.

 

Motherboard BIOS up to date?

[badbratkat]

I have afterburner thats how I was watching the cpu %. Bios is updated. Resolution is 1080p, I have a 27" Asus 144 hz monitor its 1920x1080. I set the quality settings high, everything turned up, DLSS on quality. Games are Cod Warzone, Black ops Coldwar, and Back 4 Blood are the main 3 I play, L4D 2 also, but I know its so old, it never used much of my 1070, but the other 3 the 1070 was always on 99% usage.

[badbratkat]

Does this score seem ok? http://www.3dmark.com/spy/25053858

[Mark Kaine]

simple it doesn't need to use much power for what its doing,  thats a good thing, lower temps, lower electricity bill = )

 

my card often hovers around 30% and 1500mhz... and i couldn't be anymore happy about that,  it just means the games aren't very demanding (which technically is a bad thing,  but thats where we are , stagnation since ps360 gen, which was the last time of graphical innovations... now we have checkerboard rendering and dlss which actually lowers gpu loads and glittery "reflections:... *yawn* )

 

 

 

for example HZD... doesn't even boost above 1000mhz, fans dont even turn on... i love PS3 ports (i guess its technically PS4, but certainly not more demanding than most of the PS3 games i played)

 

here's another one ,Fatal Frame,  max settings obviously...

 

"345hz" "boost" woo-hoo! 

 

 

if you want higher gpu usage,  for whatever reason, you should try 4k or something. (or try unlocking the framerates, i hate that though,  i have a 60hz screen and everything above 60fps makes me nauseous since its obviously out of sync with the refresh rate)

 

 

18 hours ago, badbratkat said:

Does this score seem ok? http://www.3dmark.com/spy/25053858

"pro tip": if you click on the little arrow (result details) it shows you that your system is performing *exactly* as expected 

 

 

so, yeah... 

[badbratkat]

Great, thanks for that info, and the in game screen shots. Which card and cpu are you using if you dont mind me asking, you didnt say. Oh and I didnt know DLSS lowers gpu load, thanks.

[Berserker1087]

There's something very simple, make sure that vsync is off and that the game does not have any fps cap.

[Demonic Donut]

9 hours ago, badbratkat said:

Great, thanks for that info, and the in game screen shots. Which card and cpu are you using if you dont mind me asking, you didnt say. Oh and I didnt know DLSS lowers gpu load, thanks.

DLSS is Deep Learning Super Sampling. Basically renders the image at a lower resolution then fudges the image up to a higher resolution. They've gotten it so it looks pretty good, but it can degrade your graphics quality.

[Mark Kaine]

21 hours ago, badbratkat said:

Great, thanks for that info, and the in game screen shots. Which card and cpu are you using if you dont mind me asking, you didnt say. Oh and I didnt know DLSS lowers gpu load, thanks.

no problem! a r5 3600 and a rtx3070...  its on my profile.

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

12 hours ago, Demonic Donut said:

They've gotten it so it looks pretty good, but it can degrade your graphics quality.

dont get me wrong dlss has its use cases, for example when i want to play at 4k DSR it helps in demanding games, but otherwise i definitely try to avoid it as it really doesn't improve anything when it isn't needed. 

[badbratkat]

On 12/23/2021 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kaine said:

no problem! a r5 3600 and a rtx3070...  its on my profile.

 

 

Oh nice! Almost same set up as me. I was worried my r5 3600 was not a good match for a rtx 3070 ti, I wanted a 3060, but the 3070 was the only ones I could find, Im sure its a bit of an overkill for me.