5600xt - gpu performance issues

[Jungle]

PC specs:

- 5600xt sapphire pulse

- Ryzen 5 3600

- MSI b450 mortar max

- 16 Corsair vengeance 3600mhz

- 2x Samsung m.2 nvme ssd

- 800w psu Corsair

 

Issues:

 

Low GPU usage, FPS drops, frametime spikes and GPU clock speed drops in all games and amd adrenaline stress test.

The GPU seems to be unable to consistently run over 30% usage, either low usage with a slightly higher clock or higher usage miserable clock speed (from 1700mhz-> 6mhz), CPU usage remains below 50% in all tasks and thermals for CPU and GPU seem fine <70 degrees.

 

Attempted troubleshooting:

- latest bios flashed

- turned off all combination of ram OC and CPU OC

- fresh windows install + newest drivers

- disabled ulps

 

Conclusion:

 

I'm completely stumped, I don't remember it ever performing this bad a couple months ago but this build seems to have had low level performance issues since it's creation (random ctd and black screen). Most of these were fixed by turning off the ram xmp and running a lower freq overclock ≈ 3200mhz with ram timings provided by mobo 'try it' memory oc feature. It's left gaming on this pc to be a stuttery inconsistent mess. The only other thing that changed is that I upgraded from a 144hz monitor to a 240hz one but I don't see why that would change things.

If anyone has any further troubleshooting advice that would be grand.

 

Oh and I have never used a forum before hope the formats ok, cheers.

 

[Tetras]

2 hours ago, Jungle said:

The only other thing that changed is that I upgraded from a 144hz monitor to a 240hz one but I don't see why that would change things.

If anyone has any further troubleshooting advice that would be grand.

 

Probably not the issue, but it can be problematic with some configs, are you using v-sync or freesync? What's the refresh rate it is running at, at the moment?

 

If you run a GPU benchmark like one @ Unigine or an old 3D Mark, do you get an appropriate score for your GPU. Same question with CPU (e.g. cinebench)?

 

Have you checked out the AMD fTPM stutter stuff?

 

Do you have any other software running while you game? Including monitoring software, motherboard software, browsers, voice.

 

Do you have any wireless devices?

 

Have you checked event viewer?

 

Have the SSDs been checked for bad blocks and disc errors?

 

Where/how was the 5600 XT obtained, i.e. is it an ex mining card? Is the card connected to a PCI-E riser, or directly to the motherboard?

 

What is your current Windows power plan?