R9 290X Performance Issues

[meowmix]

Hey guys,

I recently bought an ASUS R9 290X DCU-II to replace my r9 270x and I get simlar or worse performance than the 270x. The card struggles to maintain a fps above 60, and dips to around 30 in most games.

GPU-Z reports 0% GPU load in all games which I find extremely weird. That, or it will spike from 0% to 100% back and forth. 

The card runs at 100% load when I run Valley and Heaven on extreme. I get about 57 fps avg in Valley, and 54 fps in Heaven with GPU temps being below 87 degrees with the voltages being consistent.

I run the card on uber mode.

I have the latest Omega drivers and I've uninstalled them with DDU and re-installed them but that has solved nothing.

My system specs are:

 

Motherboard: Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 rev.4

CPU: FX-8320(stock)

Cooler: Noctua NHU-14S

RAM: 16gb Patriot Viper 3

GPU: ASUS R9 290X DCU-II

PSU: Corsair RM-750

Storage: Hyper-X 3K 120gb, Barracuda 1TB

 

I have no idea what's causing the card to not be under load and will greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

[PaulKolby]

it could be a few things:

1. Your 290x is bottlenecked by the processor (most likely)

2. your card is overheating

3. Try reinstaling drivers

 

also try overclocking the processor just by a little bit like maybe .5 ghz increase and see if that does any improvement 

[Nup]

I'm not sure, also thermal throttling doesn't happen at those temps on that card... so far as i'm aware. 

[meowmix]

it could be a few things:

1. Your 290x is bottlenecked by the processor (most likely)

2. your card is overheating

3. Try reinstaling drivers

 

also try overclocking the processor just by a little bit like maybe .5 ghz increase and see if that does any improvement 

I'll overclock it and see if anything changes.

[Altecice]

it could be a few things:

1. Your 290x is bottlenecked by the processor (most likely)

 

 

No this is rubbish, I can tell you from first hand experience the issue with AMD processors and them bottlenecking GPU's is so over hyped. I know this because I used to run an 8350 with two 290x's and I didint not have a bad time or what the OP is saying (30fps in most games). 

 

 

I'll overclock it and see if anything changes.

 

Try uninstalling Omega and going back to 14.7 see if that fixes your issues.

[Sky Daddy]

It would be helpful to know the games

[meowmix]

It would be helpful to know the games

I tried it with these games:

Insurgency

Payday 2

Tomb Raider

Borderlands 2

Batman Arkham Origins

Far Cry 3

Skyrim

Fallout New Vegas

Alien Isolation (I actually get above 100fps avg playing this)

[meowmix]

it could be a few things:

1. Your 290x is bottlenecked by the processor (most likely)

2. your card is overheating

3. Try reinstaling drivers

 

also try overclocking the processor just by a little bit like maybe .5 ghz increase and see if that does any improvement 

Overclocking didn't help that much. And as Altecice said, my 8320 seems to be powerful enough to prevent a bottleneck. I've seen others with the same setup but without my issues.

 

 

Try uninstalling Omega and going back to 14.7 see if that fixes your issues.

I went back to 14.7 to no avail.

[Sky Daddy]

try unparking your cores in your registry