Is my System pulling the R9 390 G1 Gaming down?

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Leon_0103

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Dear all,

I recently upgraded my GPU from a Readon 7850 HD to a R9 390 G1 (Gigabyte Radeon R9 390 G1 Gaming Aktiv PCIe 3.0 x16)
I did realise that I can push the quality settings on most games a little more up but not as much as expected.
Now I fear that my system is creating a bottleneck for the GPU the rest is:

Intel Core I7-3770 @3.40Ghz - 3.90Ghz
16 GB Ram
Windows 10
and a 550 watt power supply

so now im wondering why I have the feeling that my GPU is bottlenecked

best wishes
 
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RazerZ
Your i7 is still viable and performs similarly to the latest chips, there should be no bottleneck.

Can you give an example of the settings you are playing at and your FPS in the games you play? Going from a 7850 to a R9 390 should be night and day. Also what PSU are you using?
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Your i7 is still viable and performs similarly to the latest chips, there should be no bottleneck.

Can you give an example of the settings you are playing at and your FPS in the games you play? Going from a 7850 to a R9 390 should be night and day. Also what PSU are you using?
 
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I had exactly the same specs but with a GTX 980 and could easily max out all my games at 1080P, the system is not your issue. Have you got the latest drivers for your card? Bear in mind some games just don't perform well on some cards, not too common but it does happen. Also some online games are affected by your internet connect as well.
 
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Well take Arma 3 for example, i had the settings on Very high with the 7850 i had around 40 FPS on servers around 35 now with the G1 no matter the server or the Quailty settings be it Ultra or low i get no more than 25 fps.
I have the same issue with other games where i should be able to ramp it all the way up GTA5 everything maxed the integrated software says the game would be using 4320MB of 8GB but I still experience MAJOR fps drops.

I've been searching everywhere and im starting to loose faith in my new GPU
 
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Check to see if your CPU or GPU is over heating. Poor cable management or dust buildup in the heatsink might be a problem.

Also make sure you downloaded the latest drivers for your R9 390. You can find them here.

Use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove the old ones.

Can you post the exact make and model of your power supply? If it's a cheap model it might also be an issue, some PSUs can not output the wattage listed on the box safely.

Lastly check to see that your games are not running on integrated Intel HD graphics, make sure the R9 390 is set as default in the BIOS.

 
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I usually dont experience any heat problems, ark is really the only game that drives the GPU up to a max of 78C°, the CPU has never gone beyond 72.
I have downloaded the latest drives with no increase in fps in games at all.
I have a beQuiet Bqt s6-sys-ua-550w installed at the moment
Stats board of power supply

I will go ahead and check the Bios again but I've done so before and i turned the intel graphic chipset off
 
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Yes plugged in correctly, however could not even plug it into my mainboard with the intel since I turned that off.
 
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Now this is something that is a little concerning to me.
I downloaded CPU-Z and checket the graphics, the G1 has 8GB graphics however CPU-Z only recognizes 4 how come??

https://gyazo.com/6ef355b2c959019c458d30316fae8e5d

Could it be that BIOS needs updating or anything like that at all?

Here a report from CPU-Z

Graphics
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of adapters 1

Graphic APIs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

API ATI I/O
API ADL SDK

Display Adapters
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Display adapter 0
Name AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series
Board Manufacturer GIGABYTE Technology
Memory size 4095 MB
PCI device bus 1 (0x1), device 0 (0x0), function 0 (0x0)
Vendor ID 0x1002 (0x1458)
Model ID 0x67B1 (0x22BD)
Performance Level 0
Core clock 300.0 MHz
Memory clock 150.0 MHz
Performance Level 1
Core clock 1025.0 MHz
Memory clock 1500.0 MHz

Win32_VideoController AdapterRAM = 0xFFF00000 (4293918720)
Win32_VideoController DriverVersion = 15.300.1025.1001
Win32_VideoController DriverDate = 12/04/2015

Monitor 0
Model Panasonic-TV (Panasonic)
ID MEIC135
Serial
Manufacturing Date Week 0, Year 2009
Size 0.0 inches
Max Resolution 1920 x 1080 @ 50 Hz
Horizontal Freq. Range 15-68 kHz
Vertical Freq. Range 23-61 Hz
Max Pixel Clock 150 MHz
Gamma Factor 2.2


Software
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Windows Version Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0) Professional 64-bit (Build 10586)
DirectX Version 12.0


Register Spaces
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Register space PCI
Register space PCI #2
Register space SMBus, base address = 0x0F000
Register space LPC, base address = 0x0A30
Register space LPC, base address = 0x02E
 
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I have heard of CPU-z reading only 4gbs of VRAM before, its a bug in the program. Try GPU-Z
 
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So after weeks and months of trying I still have not found a valuable solution to the problem.
Even games like GTA V, Rainbow Six Siege and Assassins Creed Syndicate which have a GPU usage visualisation (using 3689mb of 8000mb for example) The moment I max every setting within the Graphics settings and the game shows me id be using 5000mb of 8000 I get major FPS drops.
I tried clean windows install clean GPU driver install.
The problem persists that i feel like the extra 6 GB vram i had to my prior GPU havent done anything.

Anyone have any other qlues?

Best regards
 
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