[SOLVED] Help! Asus STRIX 1060 6GB Only Using 3GB???

[Zyperspace]

As far as I've had this card, the ROG STRIX-GTX1060-O6G-GAMING, as it's properly called, I've never seen the memory usage rise higher than 3GB on GPUTweak II. Up until just two days ago, I had an i5-4690, so I thought it was just a bottleneck that kept it from going higher. GPU-Z also tells me 6GB VRAM in total.

But that's clearly not the case. Playing Battlefield V, I'm unable to reach a steady 60fps on High settings, with 16GB RAM at 2133 Mhz, and AMD Ryzen 3700x. According to Task Manager, the GPU is only utilizing at best 60-70% of it's potential, while the CPU is at about 50%. PSU is a Seasonic 750W 80plus Gold, so there shouldn't really be a limit on the power budget as far as I can tell...

What is going on here??? I'm on newest BIOS, newest Windows, newest Nvidia drivers and all. I've enabled Game Boost and Gamemode or whatever they call it, in both the BIOS and GPUTweak, yet see almost no improvements in performance! Please help 🙁

Picture for showing how it looks in GPUTweak while playing Battlefield V:

https://imgur.com/a/32fXOoA

View: https://imgur.com/a/32fXOoA

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Games will only use what they need.

My 8gb RX580 never hits much a couple gb used even in really demanding mainstream games. Only in unoptimized titles do i see higher VRAM usage.

 

[Zyperspace]

Games will only use what they need.

My 8gb RX580 never hits much a couple gb used even in really demanding mainstream games. Only in unoptimized titles do i see higher VRAM usage.

Right, so I'm supposed to just ignore the fact that videos and benchmarks across the internet demonstrate a solid 70-80 FPS in games such as Battlefield V on High settings, while I'm struggling at 60 fps on Medium?

Not to be rude, but this isn't quite the answer I'm looking for, when I know there's an issue underneath all this.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Battlefield V is very very CPU demanding. You cannot expect a 5 generation old mid-range CPU to perform like a brand new Ryzen 7, so there should be a difference.

Use the MSI afterburner overlay to monitor individual core CPU usage in-game.
Also, what are CPU and GPU temp in game?

The vram is almost certainly not the issue.

Also, the 2133 ram. Why? Literally the slowest you can get on a CPU that performs much better with faster ram.

 

[Zyperspace]

Battlefield V is very very CPU demanding. You cannot expect a 5 generation old mid-range CPU to perform like a brand new Ryzen 7, so there should be a difference.

Use the MSI afterburner overlay to monitor individual core CPU usage in-game.
Also, what are CPU and GPU temp in game?

The vram is almost certainly not the issue.

Also, the 2133 ram. Why? Literally the slowest you can get on a CPU that performs much better with faster ram.

I clearly specified I'm running a Ryzen 3700x, so what's issue here? Also, the RAM it goes all the way to 3200 Mhz, so not a big of a problem as you might expect.

 

[stefanos50]

In fact battlefield V at 1080 should get you around ~3GB vram at low-medium settings , ~3.5GB at high and ~4GB at Ultra. So your vram usage seems normal to me. Latest battlefield games are well known that are pretty cpu demanding games. You run a Ryzen CPU with the slower DDR4 ram you can buy right now. You can even see 30fps deference in cpu demanding games just from going to 2133mhz ram to 3200mhz with Ryzen. Your GPU should run at 100% and not only 50-60% you just cpu bottlenecked you have to buy a new ram kit and make sure its dual channel because ryzen needs dual channel memory and minimum 3200mhz to perform good.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

so what's issue here?

If you would provide the info I requested I may be able to help you rule out some things.

 

[Zyperspace]

In fact battlefield V at 1080 should get you around ~3GB vram at low-medium settings , ~3.5GB at high and ~4GB at Ultra. So your vram usage seems normal to me. Latest battlefield games are well known that are pretty cpu demanding games. You run a Ryzen CPU with the slower DDR4 ram you can buy right now. You can even see 30fps deference in cpu demanding games just from going to 2133mhz ram to 3200mhz with Ryzen. Your GPU should run at 100% and not only 50-60% you just cpu bottlenecked you have to buy a new ram kit and make sure its dual channel because ryzen needs dual channel memory and minimum 3200mhz to perform good.

Oh my, seems like I'll have to figure out how to tune the RAM up to it's advertised speeds. Unfortunately it's approaching midnight in my timezone, so I'm afraid I'll get to it tomorrow then. Thanks for the assistance so far, including you NightHawk! I'm sorry if I'm a bit of an idiot, this just isn't my specialty... 😛

 

[stefanos50]

Oh my, seems like I'll have to figure out how to tune the RAM up to it's advertised speeds. Unfortunately it's approaching midnight in my timezone, so I'm afraid I'll get to it tomorrow then. Thanks for the assistance so far, including you NightHawk! I'm sorry if I'm a bit of an idiot, this just isn't my specialty... 😛

You just get in the bios and enable the XMP profile you dont have to do anything more it will most likely get at the advertised speed.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

All you should have to do is enable XMP (or DOCP depending on board) and your ram will run at the advartised speed and timings.

 

[Zyperspace]

Thanks both of you, it will be the first thing I'll do in the morning! Good night/day/whatever 😀

 

[mdd1963]

an older i5 with but 4c/4t design will most assuredly struggle in both BF1 and BF5...so you can't expect your framerates to match those of an 8700K or 9700K with the same GPU...

If you want more VRAM used, user higher quality, AA/AF filtering, or resolution....; that still won't help the CPU process action scenes with multiple players any faster, however.

 

[Zyperspace]

Thank you, both NightHawk and stefanos, enabling A-XMP in the BIOS made my RAM go to the advertised 3200 mhz, and I'm seeing good improvements in Battlefield V! I am now able to play on High settings with solid 60-70 fps 😀

I guess overclocking the RAM even more, the model is able to go to 4000 mhz it says, will only enable further performance enhancements? Now I only need to figure out how to do that 😛