I need help my RTX 3070 is only using 3/4ish of it's power

[Hammy Hamstr]

I noticed that my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 is not using 100% recently. Started happening 2 days ago. I don't know what is causing this. My specs will be listed. Also to add I looked at furmark and someone else that has a 3070 has around 200 fps at 1080p while I only get around 140fps at 1080p preset. (If this any correlation which I doubt but I use intel extreme tuning for my cpu cause alienware limits my cpu to 65w when I can use it at 100w just fine.)

Also please contact me on discord cause I don't get notification from my email on my phone. If you don't have discord just comment that's ok.

Discord: Hamstr2000@yahoo.com#0001

Specs:

Alienware Aurora R12

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz   2.50 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
GPU  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LTR
Storage 1 TB SSD

Running Windows 11 Home

 

Edit I have reset my pc and windows still the same. The top pic is before and the bottom pic is after. These both have my power 109% and temp is 90C. I also have the cpu watt limit at 115 cause my Alienware BIOS caps it at 65 watts. I have a friend with a 3060 ti that is beating me in fps. PS this was tested in R6S Vulkan.

Edited April 2, 2023 by Hammy Hamstr

[Madsyrn]

power bottleneck?

 

[Hammy Hamstr]

21 hours ago, Madsyrn said:

power bottleneck?

 

How do I check this?

[Madsyrn]

USE hardware info if the clocks are normall it must be a bug

[Harmsway1283]

Do you have GPU overclocking software? You can probably use it to change power targets on your GPU, I doubt Alienware locked you out from changing the settings 

[Hammy Hamstr]

On 3/25/2023 at 11:42 PM, Madsyrn said:

USE hardware info if the clocks are normall it must be a bug

I can't find hardware info anywhere.

[Hammy Hamstr]

On 3/25/2023 at 11:45 PM, Harmsway1283 said:

Do you have GPU overclocking software? You can probably use it to change power targets on your GPU, I doubt Alienware locked you out from changing the settings 

I do. I only have MSI afterburner and the alienware command center. I'm not that advanced to know how to do that in afterburner.

[BetteBalterZen]

What temperatures are you getting while gaming? 

[Harmsway1283]

20 hours ago, Hammy Hamstr said:

I do. I only have MSI afterburner and the alienware command center. I'm not that advanced to know how to do that in afterburner.

Afterburner is good, you can see if your GPUs power settings are turned down. If you open it you’ll see a slider for “Power Target” or power percentage cap. If it’s turned down you should be able to see it easily.

[Hammy Hamstr]

On 3/29/2023 at 1:49 AM, BetteBalterZen said:

What temperatures are you getting while gaming? 

I get 50C in Far Cry 3 70fps to 114fps windowed fullscreen

I get 70C to 75C in R6S 214 fps average fullscreen while streaming on discord at 1080p 60fps

CSGO 52C-60C 200 to 300fps at 1080p fullscreen windowed and fullscreen

Didn't look at temp but did a benchmark on R6S Vulkan Ultra preset and this is the results.

FPS RESULTS

Total Frames Rendered : 23321

Average FPS

 

328

 

MIN FPS

206

 

 

MAX FPS

417

 

SYSTEM RESOURCES

 

CPU LOAD

 

4%

 

GPU LOAD

GPU Temperature 51 ℃

 

65%

 

VRAM LOAD

3.09 GB / 8.05 GB

 

38%

 

RAM LOAD

4.05 GB / 31.68 GB

 

12%

 

 

SYSTEM INFO

 

OS:

Windows 10 (build 10.0.22621)

CPU:

11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz

GPU:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 LTR

DRIVER:

Nvidia 531.41 [build r531_37]

Edited April 2, 2023 by Hammy Hamstr

[Hammy Hamstr]

On 3/29/2023 at 9:46 PM, Harmsway1283 said:

Afterburner is good, you can see if your GPUs power settings are turned down. If you open it you’ll see a slider for “Power Target” or power percentage cap. If it’s turned down you should be able to see it easily.

I have turned the power limit to 109% and 90C temp limit and still the same

[Harmsway1283]

19 minutes ago, Hammy Hamstr said:

I have turned the power limit to 109% and 90C temp limit and still the same

Have you updated the BIOS for your PC? I was doing some reading and found some threads and forums where people talked about these R12’s have a RAM problem bottlenecking the CPU and GPU that’s caused by the firmware.

[Hammy Hamstr]

22 hours ago, Harmsway1283 said:

Have you updated the BIOS for your PC? I was doing some reading and found some threads and forums where people talked about these R12’s have a RAM problem bottlenecking the CPU and GPU that’s caused by the firmware.

I will check on this. Also recently I have noticed my Windows is has been crashing on boot up. If this doesn't fix it I will probably do a full windows reset.

 

Also since my gpu is LTR gpu the windows update probably had a bad install and the bios maybe thinks when I'm running a game the gpu thinks its a mining application or program. My reason for this is because in R6S benchmark my gpu load was 65%

Edited April 2, 2023 by Hammy Hamstr