Weird GPU usage in new GPU

[MACACO DE FAVELA]

Hi LTT Community.

I just bought this R9 380 Sapphire Nitro with Backplate and look at the image of the gpu usage.

Its random like that but I don't have drops in-game, could it be the Crimson drivers? Or something faulty with the PCIE Socket?

I3 4170

8gb of ram

1tb

xfx 550w psu, pretty good one tbh.

I dont know what could it be, it drops to low numbers but i don't have any lag or stutter... Should i RMA it?

[Ren Heika]

Have you tried running something like Unigene Haven and watching the GPU usage while that is going? Basically try something that maxes out the card and see what the usage looks like then.

[MACACO DE FAVELA]

2 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

Have you tried running something like Unigene Haven and watching the GPU usage while that is going? Basically try something that maxes out the card and see what the usage looks like then.

Finna try it. Thanks for commenting.

[Ren Heika]

2 minutes ago, MACACO DE FAVELA said:

Finna try it. Thanks for commenting.

No problem, let me know how it goes, Unigene Haven should max the GPU pretty consistently or close to so that graph should look fairly constant after running it, Sometimes when running a game though especially when starting up you can see peaks and valleys in the usage so that may be what happened.

[MACACO DE FAVELA]

12 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

No problem, let me know how it goes, Unigene Haven should max the GPU pretty consistently or close to so that graph should look fairly constant after running it, Sometimes when running a game though especially when starting up you can see peaks and valleys in the usage so that may be what happened.

With that program it ran 100% almost always, but, should i get concerned about the usage ON games? Or is it fine? Ah, in Unigine the temperature was bugged.

[Ren Heika]

That sounds like normal operation, Unigene is designed to stress the GPU as much as possible so it will be maxed out, in games though usage can fluctuate from time to time depending on how demanding the situation is, no need to worry your card is working fine, and yeah Unigine has a buggy temperature monitor at times haha.