Question Issue with new GPU wondering if anyone might know what is happening

[hepcat77]

I bought a base model Gigabyte 5070ti a couple weeks ago. Then rest of my system is this
5700x3D
MSI B550
Crucial 3200 CL16 4 sticks totaling 32gb
Three m.2 drives
Three SSD
850 watt PSU gold rated
game in 1440

I upgraded from an Asus 6800xt.

When I ran 3D Mark testing, Steel Nomad etc... The GPU is showing 100% usage and the CPU is below 20%. When I actually game the real-world usages are more like 70% GPU, 40% CPU.
I am getting just weird jank, sometimes these start up windows splash screen with be tinted with all one color and then go away. Occasionally games freak out under intense load situations. Like in Starfield for example, if there is a lot of action going on, the game will freeze up. The GPU usage will drop to zero, then spike. There will be lags.

There are random freeze up then game crashes. I had been playing a lot of the new Oblivion and just figured it was that, but it started happening in other games.
I read around on some forums for some ideas. Tried forcing the PCI lane to only see gen 4, used DDU to clear out all drivers and started fresh. Just wondering what the discrepancy would be between how it performs in benchmarks and how it does in games.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[Lutfij]

850 watt PSU gold rated
850W is the advertised wattage of the unit. What is the make, model and age of the PSU?

MSI B550
MSI is the brand of the board while B550 is the chipset, what is the model to your motherboard? BIOS version?

What driver version are you on for your RTX5070Ti?

used DDU to clear out all drivers and started fresh.
In safe Mode, removing all GPU drivers(intel, AMD and Nvidia) then manually installing the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site?

 

[hepcat77]

Did not use DDU in safe mode.
Did get drivers from Nvidia's website, they updated drivers yesterday 567.40
Super Flower Leadex III Gold 5 years old
MPG B550 Gaming Edge Wifi AMI BIOS7C91v1G2024-03-22

 

[Syntaximus]

Run DDU in safe mode, remove everything from AMD and Nvidia.
Then reboot and do a clean install of the drivers for your new card.

 

[hepcat77]

Alright, will try it out.

 

[hepcat77]

Okay, I upgraded from W10 to W11. The free upgrade nonsense. I was hoping that they would allow me to do a clean install of my C drive but it appears to have just added a W10 partition. Anyways.

It appears running the DDU in safe mode might have solved most of my issues. Still getting slight hiccups in intense gaming situations. But not like before. I went through about 10 games to see how they acted and what my CPU/GPU usage was. I noticed some games will get to the 80-90 GPU range while CPU is sitting at 30-50 usage. Some games have just really super low usage across the board. But no loss of frames at all on any of the games.

I have not swapped between ATI and Nvidia in a long time so did not understand the importance of using safe mode to shut off any potential apps that could still be running old ATI drivers.

Thanks for the info. These cards are costing a lot of money right now and was thinking maybe I got a bunk card.

 

[Syntaximus]

Glad to hear that resolved things for the most part.
Yeah when you switch between Nvidia/AMD/Intel it's necessary or things can get janky fast.

Seems about right with usage, though it really depends on the game so hard to say.
Nvidia has had driver issues lately, so it's possible that's a factor in some capacity / could resolve via update.

Make sure you have Resizable Bar enabled as well.
You can check that quick in the Nvidia Control Panel (system info), or with something like GPU-Z.

Also if you're not running a negative core offset on that 5700X3D, try it out.
It will yield higher boost clocks and lower temps.

-30 all-core is YMMV, all depends on silicon lottery.
If it's unstable (crashes during idle & transients, not under load), drop it to -20, -10 etc.

Only other thing after that would be to try and tighten up RAM timings a bit.
Won't be as impactful as the negative core offset, but it's still something.

 

[hepcat77]

Yeah I have the cpu set to all core and -30. It didn't want to run -30 with my last card a 6800xt. Been running stable at -30 with this new card for a couple weeks. So who knows. My ram will not OC to 3600 and stay stable at all. It's B die but it doesn't matter. The GPU runs stable between 3.0 3.1 so happy with that.

I turned off the resize bar because I thought that only mattered if you had AMD CPU and GPU.

 

[Syntaximus]

Turn REBAR back on, it will make a difference in performance w Nvidia just the same.
Interesting with the -30 offset, the GPU should not impact its stability, but if all is fine now that's a bonus.

As for the RAM, it might be because you're using all 4x DIMMs.
Tweaking memory tends to be easier with 2x, as it puts less stress on the memory controller.