R9 280 being weird

[Elseano14]

Hi! A while back I used this forum to help me get a computer going, and it's great. But there's an issue I've been having. My drivers are up to date, I'm running an I-5 4460 at 3.3 GHZ, so now that's out of the way the issue I'm having:

its not as good as it should be! I knew that the R9 280 wouldn't be a powerhouse, but while playing Borderlands 2 (not the most intense game, graphically) I get 30-11 FPS. That just doesn't make sense to me. I've looked into over clocking, which lead me to afterburners, which shows that while running a game my GPU is only using 23%-44% of its capability. 

 

Tldr: graphics card seems to be throttling for no reason, any ideas and more specifically wood an overclock help me out?

 

thanks

 

[The Flying Sloth]

overclock won't help you. use GPUZ to reinstall GPU bios

[tahmidkhan123]

are there unusually high temps, thermal throttling perhaps?

[Elseano14]

6 minutes ago, The Flying Sloth said:

overclock won't help you. use GPUZ to reinstall GPU bios

Thank you! If you have the tine, could you explain what that'd do?

[Elseano14]

1 minute ago, tahmidkhan123 said:

are there unusually high temps, thermal throttling perhaps?

MSI Afterburner says 48  celsius ( 104 F) while under load- using a "wind force" cooler

[HPWebcamAble]

16 minutes ago, Elseano14 said:

graphics card seems to be throttling for no reason

Download MSI Afterburner, play a game for a bit

 

Could you post screenshots of all the graphs? (it will take several screenshots)

 

I suspect your CPU is the bottleneck, but the graphs will tell us for sure

If it IS your CPU, overclocking would help, but it seems you don't have an OCable CPU

 

2 minutes ago, Elseano14 said:

MSI Afterburner says 48  celsius ( 104 F) while under load- using a "wind force" cooler

Thats actually cool for a GPU, so you're good there.

[tahmidkhan123]

1 minute ago, Elseano14 said:

MSI Afterburner says 48  celsius ( 104 F) while under load- using a "wind force" cooler

hmm that is actually fine. Should not be throttling until about 80 degrees celsius ish. I would try the bios reflash or driver reinstall 

[Elseano14]

1 minute ago, tahmidkhan123 said:

hmm that is actually fine. Should not be throttling until about 80 degrees celsius ish. I would try the bios reflash or driver reinstall 

Alright, thanks

[Elseano14]

2 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Download MSI Afterburner, play a game for a bit

 

Could you post screenshots of all the graphs? (it will take several screenshots)

 

I suspect your CPU is the bottleneck, but the graphs will tell us for sure

 

Thats actually cool for a GPU, so you're good there.

Alright, will do. Posting from phone right now (it's 12:50 but I can't sleep with this on my mind) so will do in morning. Thank you, this site never disappoints in its helpfulness

[ybriK]

41 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Download MSI Afterburner, play a game for a bit

 

Could you post screenshots of all the graphs? (it will take several screenshots)

 

I suspect your CPU is the bottleneck, but the graphs will tell us for sure

If it IS your CPU, overclocking would help, but it seems you don't have an OCable CPU

 

Thats actually cool for a GPU, so you're good there.

Nope his CPU is capable of handling even a 980 Ti or Fury X.

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

https://youtu.be/DxGge0tR4IM?t=780

 

Intel hasn't really "leaped" in terms of performance ever since Ivy. TDP/iGPU wise yes they have but Core Performance? Not so much. I'm hoping Zen will destroy/nearly destroy Skylake/Haswell Refresh so Intel will do something about it.

[Elseano14]

10 hours ago, ybriK said:

Nope his CPU is capable of handling even a 980 Ti or Fury X.

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

https://youtu.be/DxGge0tR4IM?t=780

 

Intel hasn't really "leaped" in terms of performance ever since Ivy. TDP/iGPU wise yes they have but Core Performance? Not so much. I'm hoping Zen will destroy/nearly destroy Skylake/Haswell Refresh so Intel will do something about it.

Yeah that's what I thought- usage for CPU is hovering at around 50% under load