Low Fps and Gpu Usage in all games with threadripper

[whopperhsu]

Hello, after building my first pc i made a threadripper 1920x and 1080ti pc build similar to the one on Geforce Garage. My gpu usage is low and i am only getting a stable 120 fps and 60 percent usage in pubg. Although PUBG is not that optimized, I get higher fps and usage in the witcher. Also, in overwatch, i get 40 percent usage and a constant 213 fps which I dislike because of my 240hz monitor. Am I bottlenecked by my 1920x at 4.1GHZ? I dont know if I am being bottlenecked but i reach 80-90% on 2 of my cores. Is there any way to fix this? I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers and set power plan to high performance. If anyone could help, I would be very grateful.
Thanks!

 

[Supernova1138]

If you were trying to shoot for 240FPS and that was your top priority, then you probably should've gotten the i7 8700k instead. Threadripper has lower IPC and a lower clockspeed than Intel chips and games simply don't scale up to 12 cores and 24 threads, so you're going to see low overall CPU usage. Threadripper is really aimed more at the workstation market where there are applications that can actually use all those cores and threads, if you were looking to just build a gaming system, there are much cheaper options from both Intel and AMD. Intel currently has the edge for high refresh gaming because of slightly better IPC and their chips being able to overclock up to 5.0GHz.

Bottom line is, yes you are CPU bottlenecked, when targeting 240FPS CPU bottlenecking becomes a huge issue, even with the something like the i7 8700k on certain titles. If you have a 240Hz monitor with Gsync, it's not a huge problem, but for many games getting a perfect 240FPS is difficult to outright impossible. Gaming performance will be by no means terrible with your current setup, but if you are looking to chase the highest framerates possible, the Threadripper 1920x was not the best CPU choice.

 

[marksavio]

+1 on supernova's advice.

 

[ARICH5]

clearly threadripper is not a gaming soution. its a productivity chip.

 

[whopperhsu]

Yes I know it is not a gaming chip but I use for multitasking and gaming machine because I render and edit videos.

 

[whopperhsu]

Does anyone know how to add more gpu usage? I have my 3d settings set to quality.

 

[Supernova1138]

Does anyone know how to add more gpu usage? I have my 3d settings set to quality.

Run the games at resolutions higher than 1080p using Nvidia DSR. If the game includes supersampling or Resolution Scaling that goes above 100%, that will also work. You won't get more frames doing this, but the games will look a bit nicer at least while utilizing more of your GPU.

 

[whopperhsu]

So, If I overclock my ryzen chip higher I might see better frames?

 

[Supernova1138]

So, If I overclock my ryzen chip higher I might see better frames?

Overclocking can help, but AMD's current CPUs have a rather low clockspeed ceiling. If you're already overclocked to 4.1GHz, you're not really going to get much further. I think Threadripper can clock a bit higher than the non Threadripper Ryzen chips but even then the top speed is somewhere in the 4.2GHz range. so you wouldn't see a huge jump. If you're still running at stock speeds and just have the single core boost up to 4GHz, then you might get some more gains with overclocking. Do keep in mind that overclocking these high core count chips generates a huge amount of power and heat and you need to be prepared for that.

 

[whopperhsu]

yes i turned on game mode while i play and am testing to get over 4.15 which is my highest stablility