RX 5700XT won't run at full potential

[Itsukideservedbetter]

Hey guys (specs are in my bio),

I bought a used 5700XT sapphire pulse a month ago, performance has been worse than my 5 year old RX 580 8GB except for highly demanding games like cyberpunk or assassin's creed.

I play 1080p 240hz and in esports titles like csgo and valorant, even GTAV. My GPU will only utilize around 50-60% of my gpu in csgo's case it was 20-30%. And power draw in cyberpunk is around 200W while in esports titles it is around 60-90 Watts. csgo and valorant only runs around 170-200 fps and with stutters. Checked all my software and reinstalled drivers with DDU and disabling all AMD freesync or frame lockers I can't find a way to make it to use its full power. Would like some help, thanks

[Vishera]

What CPU do you have?

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, Itsukideservedbetter said:

Hey guys (specs are in my bio),

I bought a used 5700XT sapphire pulse a month ago, performance has been worse than my 5 year old RX 580 8GB except for highly demanding games like cyberpunk or assassin's creed.

I play 1080p 240hz and in esports titles like csgo and valorant, even GTAV. My GPU will only utilize around 50-60% of my gpu in csgo's case it was 20-30%. And power draw in cyberpunk is around 200W while in esports titles it is around 60-90 Watts. csgo and valorant only runs around 170-200 fps and with stutters. Checked all my software and reinstalled drivers with DDU and disabling all AMD freesync or frame lockers I can't find a way to make it to use its full power. Would like some help, thanks

Looks like CPU bottleneck, CP2077 is very CU demanding

What's your CPU ? A 2600X or such will definitely be bottlenecked easily

A simple way to confirm that is to crank UP graphics settings, if FPS don't drop then it's a CPU bottleneck

[Vishera]

I just looked into your old thread, the CPU shouldn't bottleneck the GPU,

You could try flashing bios again, but this time with the forceflash command,

For example: amdvbflash.exe -p -fa -fp 0 Sapphire.RX5700XT.8192.190905_2.rom

 

Try this vBIOS: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/214469/sapphire-rx5700xt-8192-190905-2

 

Follow this guide: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-ati-flash-command-line-cmd-syntax-mini-guide-windows.291671/

[Itsukideservedbetter]

On 11/6/2022 at 8:25 PM, PDifolco said:

Looks like CPU bottleneck, CP2077 is very CU demanding

What's your CPU ? A 2600X or such will definitely be bottlenecked easily

A simple way to confirm that is to crank UP graphics settings, if FPS don't drop then it's a CPU bottleneck

Yes after bumping up the settings, the fps does not change much at all. For example genshin impact runs at max settings 90-100 fps with 30% utilization, after cranking the rendering resolution to 1.5x performance stays the same.

[Itsukideservedbetter]

On 11/6/2022 at 7:23 PM, Vishera said:

What CPU do you have?

is it possible for the bottleneck to be PSU bound? But I think it has enough headroom

[PDifolco]

14 minutes ago, Itsukideservedbetter said:

Yes after bumping up the settings, the fps does not change much at all. For example genshin impact runs at max settings 90-100 fps with 30% utilization, after cranking the rendering resolution to 1.5x performance stays the same.

So definitely a CPU bottleneck...

[Itsukideservedbetter]

3 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

So definitely a CPU bottleneck...

what cpu would u recommend, im probably going the used route

Thought of a used 3700x cuz its cheap and i dont want to upgrade to a new motherboard, is it doable?

 

[PDifolco]

Just now, Itsukideservedbetter said:

what cpu would u recommend, im probably going the used route

 

5600, it's cheap even new...

[Itsukideservedbetter]

1 minute ago, PDifolco said:

5600, it's cheap even new...

aight thank you

[Vishera]

4 hours ago, Itsukideservedbetter said:

aight thank you

Doesn't sound like a CPU bottleneck,

The 3600X shouldn't bottleneck the 5700XT.