Question Gpu usage at 50 - 80 % while idle?

[APEXAUTIST]

I am literally just watching youtube videos and my gpu locks in and uses up to 8 gb of it's memory for no reason, I have to restart my pc to stop that from happening, and after a few minutes to hours it will start on it's own anyways, and I need my pc for rendering stuff 3D stuff, I literally can't work right now because my gpu is clogged up for no reason. I haven't tried using a different browser the problem only started yesterday, my task manager show me that my gpu usage is at 1% - 5% however I use OCCT to monitor my hardware in detail and OCCT is telling me that my gpu is using 50 - 80 % of it's memory, I can hear and feel that my pc is working hard and when I try to render something it falls to the processor, or when gpu is used it is incredibly slow. I installed new drivers today, what else can I try?

 

[NanoSuit3]

Specs please?

 

[APEXAUTIST]

Specs please?

my gpu is a rtx 3060, what other specs do you want? I'm bad with PC meintenence.

 

[NanoSuit3]

Sorry to hear that but I may need like almost everything. CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage and PSU. I got the 3060 but idk if it has 8Gbs thought it had 6 - 12 . . . doesn't matter. Open up Task Manager and just list it.

 

[APEXAUTIST]

CPU - Intel Core i7 -4790 3,60 GHz
GPU - GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
RAM - 32 GB DDR3
SSD 1TB SSDPR-CL 100-960-G3
HDD 8 TB (Purple)

This good enough?

 

[APEXAUTIST]

ALthough, I have to say, my operating system is in polish and I didn't realize earlier that I could monitor my GPU in the task manager, now that I do the task manager is telling me the GPU is only using like 13 % average, maybe I just freaked out cuz OCCT was telling me that my gpu was using 6 gb but task manager shows that 6 gb is dedicated but only up to 13 % is actually being used, so... I might have just gotten scared and there is actually no problem.

 

[APEXAUTIST]

I think something is wrong after all, when I boot up my pc at first the dedicated GPU memory is at 0,6 gb then after like 2 or 3 minutes something happens and the dedicated memory shoots all the way up to 6 gb or 8 gb and stays there.

 

[APEXAUTIST]

most of my gpu is being used up and I don't even know why.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I think something is wrong after all, when I boot up my pc at first the dedicated GPU memory is at 0,6 gb then after like 2 or 3 minutes something happens and the dedicated memory shoots all the way up to 6 gb or 8 gb and stays there.

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[NanoSuit3]

I always suspect power first before almost anything else. What's your PSU wattage?

 

[APEXAUTIST]

I installed malwarebytes and so far had the pc on for 10 minutes and it is an improvement, amma keep yall updated just in case.

 

[APEXAUTIST]

no problems in 1 hour, malwarebytes did the trick.