RX 6600 XT bottleneck?

[Jalali123]

I recently finished building my new PC, here are the specs: 

Z270A Prime

I5 7600k 3.8GHz but runs at 4.3GHz.

4x4GB 2400MHz DDR4 RAM

500GB Samsung SSD

250GB M.2 Samsung SSD

RX 6600 XT 8GB.

PSU 550W 80 rated Gold.

 

So my previous PC used to be a GTX 1060 6GB and i wanted to upgrade so i decided upon the 6600 XT.

With my previous card i was averaging around 150 to 200 fps on CSGO but with the new graphics card which is a brand new 2021 card, im averaging 90 to 120 fps and it can barely hold above 100 with stutters.

I've gone through so many troubleshooting resolutions for example:

 

DDU, reinstalling with revo, updating the bios, updating firmware, updating drivers, tweaking settings in the AMD software program.

Changing XMP profiles to disabled, reducing the OC CPU, windows updates, device manager driver updates. 

 

I had a 6% CPU bottleneck with the I5 7600k and the 1060 6GB card and i did a test on a program with the 5700 XT (Slightly worse than the 6600XT) and it said 31% CPU bottleneck.

Since the card is slightly better lets just say that the bottleneck is somewhere around 35 to 40%, is this what would be causing my issues?

Strange thing is that I've tested the new GPU on battlefield 5 and it works perfectly fine, 60 to 120 fps on high settings at 1080p.

Both CPU and GPU share utilization around 70 to 80%.

 

[Jalali123]

Here is user benchmark of my PC: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49206597

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, Jalali123 said:

I had a 6% CPU bottleneck with the I5 7600k and the 1060 6GB card and i did a test on a program with the 5700 XT (Slightly worse than the 6600XT) and it said 31% CPU bottleneck.

What program are you using? A 7600k with a 6600XT should be fine, that card IIRC performs between a 1080 and a 1080Ti, both card that were not uncommon to see run with a 7600k when it was new. 

 

1 minute ago, Jalali123 said:

Here is user benchmark of my PC: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49206597

That explains it. Friends don't let friends use UserBenchmark. It's stats are hilariously Biased and its numbers regularly don't add up. Don't use it for anything more than the occasional laughs. For example: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-8350K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-TR-2990WX/3935vsm560423

 

Now time to figure out what you're getting such low framerates in games like CS:GO. I would start by monitoring per-core usage, per core frequency, and overall usage. I'd personally use MSI afterburner to measure these since you'll get a graph with all the data on it that's very easy to screenshot and read. 

[GamerDude]

OP had swapped his GTX 1060 with the RX 6600 XT, but did he completely remove the previous nVidia driver completely? When swapping out cards, from nVidia to AMD or vice versa, you must ALWAYS run DDU to remove all traces of previous driver as the remnants of previous driver can muck up the performance of the new card.

 

Undoubtedly, the RX 6600 XT is a fair bit faster than the GTX 1060, with proper removal of drivers, the card should fly. But please be aware that the card can perform only as well as the CPU, and having an i5 7600K with 4C/4T is rather limiting in certain games and apps.

[newpcbuilder34]

On 1/2/2022 at 7:21 PM, Jalali123 said:

I recently finished building my new PC, here are the specs: 

Z270A Prime

I5 7600k 3.8GHz but runs at 4.3GHz.

4x4GB 2400MHz DDR4 RAM

500GB Samsung SSD

250GB M.2 Samsung SSD

RX 6600 XT 8GB.

PSU 550W 80 rated Gold.

 

So my previous PC used to be a GTX 1060 6GB and i wanted to upgrade so i decided upon the 6600 XT.

With my previous card i was averaging around 150 to 200 fps on CSGO but with the new graphics card which is a brand new 2021 card, im averaging 90 to 120 fps and it can barely hold above 100 with stutters.

I've gone through so many troubleshooting resolutions for example:

 

DDU, reinstalling with revo, updating the bios, updating firmware, updating drivers, tweaking settings in the AMD software program.

Changing XMP profiles to disabled, reducing the OC CPU, windows updates, device manager driver updates. 

 

I had a 6% CPU bottleneck with the I5 7600k and the 1060 6GB card and i did a test on a program with the 5700 XT (Slightly worse than the 6600XT) and it said 31% CPU bottleneck.

Since the card is slightly better lets just say that the bottleneck is somewhere around 35 to 40%, is this what would be causing my issues?

Strange thing is that I've tested the new GPU on battlefield 5 and it works perfectly fine, 60 to 120 fps on high settings at 1080p.

Both CPU and GPU share utilization around 70 to 80%.

 

I know it's an old thread but I was wondering if this issue could be caused by the gpu's bandwdith limitation on a pcie 3.0 platform?