Hi guys, I'm a bit stumped here.
I think the title is self explanatory, but here's my setup:
Ryzen 1600x;
RTX 2060 Super;
16GB RAM at 2400 MHz;
Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3.
Games and apps installed on an M2 drive.
BIOS version is 28 (most current one is version 51, but I've seen no reason to flash my BIOS, as none of the updates have any features that would benefit me).
While I was aware that for optimal performance the GPU should be in the top PCIE x16 Gen3 slot, I'd never given it much thought. I had originally and absent-mindedly put the card in the bottom PCIE x4 Gem2 slot (stupid, I know) and it has always worked just fine with modern games.
Recently Horizon Zero Dawn came out and it was running quite poorly. Some people said that it's a fussy console port and requires all the extra lanes, so I popped my card into the x16. Suddenly from a badly fluctuating framerate (anywhere between 60 and 5 FPS) in the bottom slot, I was now getting only single digit frames in the top slot. Confusing, so I checked Death Stranding and Witcher 3, both of which also ran noticeably worse.
This didn't make any sense to me. I checked HWinfo and it confirmed that it's in the x16 slot and running at x16 lanes. When in the bottom slot, it confirmed that it was running at x4, so HWinfo was sensing the changes correctly. I've also never changed any settings in the BIOS, but just to be sure, I set it to default settings.
I haven't got much experience in this area, as you can probably tell, so I'm utterly confused as to why games are running so much worse in what's supposed to be the optimal PCIE slot, especially since HWinfo is confirming that it's running at the correct bandwidth, and not at something like x1 or x2.
The manual for the motherboard was also not helpful and the Gigabyte UEFI BIOS user interface is a stylish "gamery" mess that doesn't make it clear if any if my settings are wrong. At one point I forced the PCIE slot to be on Gen3 instead of Auto, but that didn't make a difference so I set it back to default again.
This is not a critical issue, but I would appreciate any advice. Mostly for improved gaming performance, but really because this issue is confusing the hell out of me and I'd like to learn what I'm doing wrong so that I don't repeat it in the future.
Cheerio 👍
P.S. The above mentioned games also all load quite a lot faster when the GPU is plugged into the PCIE x4 Gen2 slot than in the x16 Gen3 one. Like 2-3 times faster. Why?
I think the title is self explanatory, but here's my setup:
Ryzen 1600x;
RTX 2060 Super;
16GB RAM at 2400 MHz;
Gigabyte AB350-Gaming 3.
Games and apps installed on an M2 drive.
BIOS version is 28 (most current one is version 51, but I've seen no reason to flash my BIOS, as none of the updates have any features that would benefit me).
While I was aware that for optimal performance the GPU should be in the top PCIE x16 Gen3 slot, I'd never given it much thought. I had originally and absent-mindedly put the card in the bottom PCIE x4 Gem2 slot (stupid, I know) and it has always worked just fine with modern games.
Recently Horizon Zero Dawn came out and it was running quite poorly. Some people said that it's a fussy console port and requires all the extra lanes, so I popped my card into the x16. Suddenly from a badly fluctuating framerate (anywhere between 60 and 5 FPS) in the bottom slot, I was now getting only single digit frames in the top slot. Confusing, so I checked Death Stranding and Witcher 3, both of which also ran noticeably worse.
This didn't make any sense to me. I checked HWinfo and it confirmed that it's in the x16 slot and running at x16 lanes. When in the bottom slot, it confirmed that it was running at x4, so HWinfo was sensing the changes correctly. I've also never changed any settings in the BIOS, but just to be sure, I set it to default settings.
I haven't got much experience in this area, as you can probably tell, so I'm utterly confused as to why games are running so much worse in what's supposed to be the optimal PCIE slot, especially since HWinfo is confirming that it's running at the correct bandwidth, and not at something like x1 or x2.
The manual for the motherboard was also not helpful and the Gigabyte UEFI BIOS user interface is a stylish "gamery" mess that doesn't make it clear if any if my settings are wrong. At one point I forced the PCIE slot to be on Gen3 instead of Auto, but that didn't make a difference so I set it back to default again.
This is not a critical issue, but I would appreciate any advice. Mostly for improved gaming performance, but really because this issue is confusing the hell out of me and I'd like to learn what I'm doing wrong so that I don't repeat it in the future.
Cheerio 👍
P.S. The above mentioned games also all load quite a lot faster when the GPU is plugged into the PCIE x4 Gen2 slot than in the x16 Gen3 one. Like 2-3 times faster. Why?