Low GPU usage

Wyndmere · July 10, 2018

Hello guys, i recently bought a GTX 1080 for my PC. I have a Ryzen 5 1600 OC to 3.8ghz with 8GB of 2133 Mhz RAM (will get faster and more RAM later) and a 144 Hz 1080p monitor. I have noticed that GPU usage and FPS is lower than it should be in a lot of games, such as LoL, War Thunder, CSGO, etc. I can get 144 fps no problem in Witcher 3 for example, which is much more intensive than these games, but struggle to get more than 110 fps in these games. Any ideas what might cause this? Is RAM frequency that important? Thanks in advance!

DefineOG · July 10, 2018

4 minutes ago, Wyndmere said:

Hello guys, i recently bought a GTX 1080 for my PC. I have a Ryzen 5 1600 OC to 3.8ghz with 8GB of 2133 Mhz RAM (will get faster and more RAM later) and a 144 Hz 1080p monitor. I have noticed that GPU usage and FPS is lower than it should be in a lot of games, such as LoL, War Thunder, CSGO, etc. I can get 144 fps no problem in Witcher 3 for example, which is much more intensive than these games, but struggle to get more than 110 fps in these games. Any ideas what might cause this? Is RAM frequency that important? Thanks in advance!

I would say, overclock your CPU because it is probably bottlenecking your GPU, if you can't then use VSR to run the gpu at 1440p so the CPU won't be much of a bottleneck, in some cases you might get MORE FPS, in my system r9 270, i5 750 my CPU is a huge bottleneck so playing at 1440p medium is about the same fps at 1080p medium (50-500 depending on if I am playing crysis or minecraft xD).

Wyndmere · July 10, 2018

17 minutes ago, DefineOG said:

I would say, overclock your CPU because it is probably bottlenecking your GPU, if you can't then use VSR to run the gpu at 1440p so the CPU won't be much of a bottleneck, in some cases you might get MORE FPS, in my system r9 270, i5 750 my CPU is a huge bottleneck so playing at 1440p medium is about the same fps at 1080p medium (50-500 depending on if I am playing crysis or minecraft xD).

Yeah i have noticed that cranking the graphics up does not affect performance very much in these games. What i do not understand is how Ryzen is considered to be just slightly worse than Intel gaming wise, when it obviously is pretty far off. Maybe RAM freq is that much important, which does not help its case since RAM is so expensive now.

DefineOG · July 10, 2018

3 minutes ago, Wyndmere said:

Yeah i have noticed that cranking the graphics up does not affect performance very much in these games. What i do not understand is how Ryzen is considered to be just slightly worse than Intel gaming wise, when it obviously is pretty far off. Maybe RAM freq is that much important, which does not help its case since RAM is so expensive now.

Because of how ryzen works frequency is VERY important.