Can it be Ram Bottleneck?

[MNiyazi]

Hello,

While I play games I see the GPU being used 97-100% but sometimes it drops to 50-70% for 1 second.
Also I am experiencing low 0.1% fps sometimes.
Can it be RAM Bottleneck?

 

PC Specs:
CPU- Ryzen 5 4500
GPU- RX 480 4GB

RAM- 1x8GB 3200MHz (Today I purchased 1 more stick of 8GB )
MOBO: MSI A320M-A Pro
PSU- Super Flower 500W Eco King 80+ Bronze
Some games are installed in SSD others in HDD but I don't see a difference

Can anyone help me?

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

Hello,

While I play games I see the GPU being used 97-100% but sometimes it drops to 50-70% for 1 second.
Also I am experiencing low 0.1% fps sometimes.
Can it be RAM Bottleneck?

 

PC Specs:
CPU- Ryzen 5 4500
GPU- RX 480 4GB

RAM- 1x8GB 3200MHz (Today I purchased 1 more stick of 8GB )
MOBO: MSI A320M-A Pro
PSU- Super Flower 500W Eco King 80+ Bronze
Some games are installed in SSD others in HDD but I don't see a difference

Can anyone help me?

its very possible that the bad power delievery on your mobo might be limiting you or you have a cpu bottleneck, check your cpu percentage usage in game by installing MSI afterburner using rivatuner and report back here the percentage while playing when your gpu usage is 50% as well as your cpus power draw

[MNiyazi]

4 minutes ago, filpo said:

its very possible that the bad power delievery on your mobo might be limiting you or you have a cpu bottleneck, check your cpu percentage usage in game by installing MSI afterburner using rivatuner and report back here the percentage while playing when your gpu usage is 50% as well as your cpus power draw

Ok I will check CPU Power Draw.
CPU being used 10-70% max depends on the game

[Naijin]

11 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

Hello,

While I play games I see the GPU being used 97-100% but sometimes it drops to 50-70% for 1 second.
Also I am experiencing low 0.1% fps sometimes.
Can it be RAM Bottleneck?

 

PC Specs:
CPU- Ryzen 5 4500
GPU- RX 480 4GB

RAM- 1x8GB 3200MHz (Today I purchased 1 more stick of 8GB )
MOBO: MSI A320M-A Pro
PSU- Super Flower 500W Eco King 80+ Bronze
Some games are installed in SSD others in HDD but I don't see a difference

Can anyone help me?

You have 1 RAM DIMM, so you're running single channel. I'd try with 2 DIMMs first, when RAM is running in dual channel. For Ryzen, this can make a difference.

Depending on the games you play, your CPU should be able to keep an RX 480 at 100%. In what games are you seeing this?

[Fasauceome]

13 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

RAM- 1x8GB 3200MHz (Today I purchased 1 more stick of 8GB )

AMD Ryzen processors use something called Infinity Fabric to enable the CPU cores to talk to each other. Infinity Fabric is tied to the memory bandwidth and latency, so two sticks of ram will make a pretty huge difference.

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

Ok I will check CPU Power Draw.
CPU being used 10-70% max depends on the game

If its up to 70 and the power draw is low then its probably mobo

[MNiyazi]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

If its up to 70 and the power draw is low then its probably mobo

So I checked.
While the CPU being used 60-80% at a game the cpu power draw was 22-40W
CPU Clock was between 4.1-4.2GHz

[MNiyazi]

5 minutes ago, Naijin said:

You have 1 RAM DIMM, so you're running single channel. I'd try with 2 DIMMs first, when RAM is running in dual channel. For Ryzen, this can make a difference.

Depending on the games you play, your CPU should be able to keep an RX 480 at 100%. In what games are you seeing this?

Warzone 2.0 , PUBG , Bannerlord. For other games I am not sure because I didn't try

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

So I checked.
While the CPU being used 60-80% at a game the cpu power draw was 22-40W
CPU Clock was between 4.1-4.2GHz

Core clocks are fine with the cpu in the screenshot below but power draw should be a bit higher if it hits 80% 

Edited March 15, 2023 by filpo

[MNiyazi]

5 minutes ago, filpo said:

Core clocks are fine with the cpu in the screenshot below but power draw should be a bit higher if it hits 80% 

BTW Yes It says up to 4.1GHZ but It is working at 4.2GHz I don't know why.

[filpo]

Just now, MNiyazi said:

BTW Yes It says up to 4.1GHZ but It is working at 4.2GHz I don't know why.

yes i think its the poor power delivery from your mobo, had this before with a different low end board and my 10100f wouldn't go higher than 40w and the vrms would get pretty toasty mostly cuz they were exposed completely

[MNiyazi]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

yes i think its the poor power delivery from your mobo, had this before with a different low end board and my 10100f wouldn't go higher than 40w and the vrms would get pretty toasty mostly cuz they were exposed completely

Just did a cpu stress test and I saw that cpu core clock was between 4025-4075MHz and cpu power was 53-58W

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

Just did a cpu stress test and I saw that cpu core clock was between 4025-4075MHz and cpu power was 53-58W

ye thats pretty strange cuz thats actually alright. sorry for asking but have you tried installing the newest bios update from the website of the mobo

[MNiyazi]

Just now, filpo said:

ye thats pretty strange cuz thats actually alright. sorry for asking but have you tried installing the newest bios update from the website of the mobo

The newest bios is a beta version, so i installed the penult version which is not beta

[filpo]

9 minutes ago, MNiyazi said:

The newest bios is a beta version, so i installed the penult version which is not beta

Sure