GPU Upgrade without noticeable fps increase

[Succulent]

I had an MSI GTX 1070 for the past four or so years. I finally upgraded to a used rtx 3060 that I was told was about a year old and had hardly been used. It's been about three months since the upgrade and I still can't see any noticeable increase in my frames.

 

Specs are

b350 PC mate motherboard

2x 8gb corsair vengeance DDR4

r5 3600 CPU

Corsair RM750 power supply

[Dukesilver27-]

My guess is the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

Hows the CPU and GPU usage while playing your game?

[Succulent]

22 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

My guess is the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

Hows the CPU and GPU usage while playing your game?

I opened task manager and while playing my CPU usage hung around 80-95% utilization while my GPU was around 11%
with my GPU being that unbelievably low I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong here

I researched it a little while ago and went back to double check but I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be bottlenecking with an rtx 3060 and an r5 3600

According to this I should be okay as well https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/

That said I did buy my CPU used back in february

[Dukesilver27-]

Don't use task manager, they are inaccurate at best.

Please use MSI Afterbuner, follow this guide. While you're at it, please also report the temps.

Bottleneck calculator is very inaccurate, you can't trust those at all.

Used CPU performs just as well as new CPU provided that there aren't any damage, it doesn't matter.

 

[Succulent]

19 minutes ago, Dukesilver27- said:

Don't use task manager, they are inaccurate at best.

Please use MSI Afterbuner, follow this guide.

Bottleneck calculator is very inaccurate, you can't trust those at all.

Used CPU performs just as well as new CPU provided that there aren't any damage, it doesn't matter.

 

the GPU hung around 70-80% and the CPU was 40-60%

neither's maxing out but I'm geting 200-140 fps, this is definitely better than before but I regularly check my fps counter to see 100-120 fps in the same game so I think the performance issues come and go?

Also I realized I have a 3060 ti not a 3060

[Dukesilver27-]

2 minutes ago, Succulent said:

Also I realized I have a 3060 ti not a 3060

How...

In any case, I don't think that the issue came and go, there must be something different other than Afterburner being open. But seeing as your GPU is still not at 100%, CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

You want the GPU to be 95%-100% at all times, so you need the CPU to keep up.

CPU is too slow, 3600 was fine when paired with even 1070, but 3060 Ti is quite a bit faster than 1070, The issue is the single core is too weak, and games barely use more than 4 cores, old games probably 2 cores at most.

so it won't ever reach 100%.

 

So, if you want your GPU to be fully used, I'd suggest you to upgrade to 5600. But if you're satisfied with the fps you got now, and don't mind with letting the GPU slack a bit, then you don't need to upgrade.

Again, this hardware issue, not any sort of settings or software shenanigans.