7900 XTX Performance Issues

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Greetings,

 

Specs:

 

CPU: Intel i7 12700KF (Stock)

CPU COOLER: Scythe Fuma 2
GRAPHICS CARD: XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX Merc 310 Black Speedster (3x separate 8 pin cables)
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3200MHz DDR4
MOBO: Asus TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS D4
PSU: Superflower Leadex Platinum 1000W
PRIMARY DISPLAY: Mecer K3G3R 31.5" 1440P 144Hz
SECONDARY DISPLAY: BenQ XL2411Z 24" 1080P 144Hz
SSD Samsung 960 EVO 500GB NVMe M.2
OS: Windows 11 Pro x64

 

When installing the new GPU I used DDU and installed the latest AMD drivers. My motherboard drivers and BIOS are fully up to date. BAR is enabled in the bios.

 

I hope someone can assist here. I recently purchased a XFX RX 7900 XTX Merc 310 Black Speedster. I previously had a 1080 GTX Ti. While I definitely see an improvement over my previous GPU, When comparing to online benchmarks I am seeing a substantial difference in FPS. I also notice occasional Frame rate hitching and general FPS numbers being rather inconsistent.

 

While I do run DDR4 3200mhz memory, I don't see how that would cause the performance drops I have seen when comparing to results online. My 3dMark Speedway test is below and seems to match "average" scores but my actual FPS in games is substantially worse in most titles. Also my cards temps don't seem to bad and my GPU junction's highest temp under 100% gpu load that I have seen is 82c but the weather has been very hot in my country lately about 38c.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/sw/269346

 

Also when replicating the same benchmark in RDR2 I am almost 40 fps down (I get about average 120fps):

https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RDR2-768x768.png

 

Metro Exodus Enhanced edition gives me similar "bad" fps stats as well:

https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DXRmetro2-768x768.png

 

Is there something I am missing here? Also I don't see a 12700KF on DDR4 3200mhz RAM being a bottleneck for a 7900XTX. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

 

 

[191x7]

What is cooling your cpu?

[emosun]

try it in windows 10 instead of 11 and see if a better os has any effect on its results , it'll help eliminate a software variable as well vs hardware

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2 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

What is cooling your cpu?

Updated post

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In terms of CPU temps the hottest my CPU gets is about 80c but again its summer in my country and it can get super hot. However I doubt the issue is with my CPU since i didnt have this problem or notice any issues on my previous GPU.

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In terms of CPU temps the hottest my CPU gets is about 80c but again its summer in my country and it can get super hot. However I doubt the issue is with my CPU since I didn't have this problem or notice any issues on my previous GPU.

 

Both the GPU and CPU are not showing any sighs of thermal throttling, as of this morning, I reseated the GPU since i noticed the "zbar" wasnt sitting in the correct position and corrected it, I followed the instructions as per XFX's instructional video on youtube.

 

My 3d mark score is only slighly better then my previous post https://www.3dmark.com/sw/270695

When monitoring CPU utilization on the AMD overlay I am only using about 3% at the most 5%

When i retested RDR2 I am still getting worse FPS than online tests:

 

Should I wait for drivers or send the card back for testing?

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Also when comparing my 3d score to other results with the same CPU and GPU, I am in the top 3 score wise https://www.3dmark.com/search#advanced?test=sw P&cpuId=2896&gpuId=1526&gpuCount=0&gpuType=ALL&deviceType=ALL&storageModel=ALL&memoryChannels=0&country=&scoreType=overallScore&hofMode=false&showInvalidResults=false&freeParams=&minGpuCoreClock=&maxGpuCoreClock=&minGpuMemClock=&maxGpuMemClock=&minCpuClock=&maxCpuClock=

 

My name is FĬΞŇĐ in the list

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I also wanted to add that that I am using Quick CPU as my CPU monitoring tool and I also use it for the "max performance" preset, primarily to unpark my cores.

I was using this prior to the new GPU and didnt have any issues with it there either.

I was also going to say I am using the XMP profile for the RAM in my bios as well 

My ram being G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 (XMP ON). If you guys need any more info let me know

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I retested Metro exodus enhanced edition and seem to be getting a slighly better result after the reseat:

 

But I am still about 10 fps down over a stock card... When monitoring CPU ultilisation during the test as well it peaked at 12% but for only a second. 99% of the time it was bounching between 3% and 7%.

 

Sorry to the multiple posts, just trying to provide as much info as possible.

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Attached benchmark results

 

I tested via Borderlands 3 using the same settings on the benchmark here, Default detected automatically set all the settings to max (badass), the only thing i didn't change was resolution scaling. And somehow I am getting more FPS than the test results! (136 vs my 177) I am so very confused.

 

Another thing I picked up in RDR2 my GPU is not maxing out its bouncing between 87% and 98% while my CPU utilization is hitting 3-6% on average and very rarily exceeds 10%. I hope some can help...

 

 

 

BenchmarkData_2023-01-19_20-20-18.txt

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Just a another quick update, I those RDR2 results were tested on max settings with Vulkan, I get 100% utilisation almost constantly when using Direct X 12 and the FPS is slighly better but still no where near the results I should be getting.