Question Low GPU usage ?

[smrkisk]

Hello guys I just bought rx 6700 xt used for mining from a guy. We were testing it on 1 pc with R7 1800x it had usage like 80% around... but on the 2nd one with some 12 core ryzen it was working normally I mean like 80 fps 1440P cyberpunk no ray traycing. So I took it and bought yesterday new r5 5600x and 16gb 3200 mhz corsair rams. I set the freq of cpu to 4.6 Ghz and the ram is running on 3200 mhz. But when I play any game on like 1080P it is using 70-85% GPU which means that I got even in like BL2 55-70 fps but when I go to like 4K I get usually not in every game 100% usage and normal frames pretty high for 4K. I tried reinstall drivers, look in bios, look in radeon software, high priority for game task in manager, setting minimal memory on gpu in radeon to high number... nothing helped. It seems like the gpu is wrong or something and I will have to contact him for return.

PC specs:
Asus prime b450m-k
SilverStone Strider Essential 80Plus ST70F-ES230 700 W
R5 5600x upgraded from R3 2200G
RX 6700 XT ASRock Challenger PRO upgraded from rx 580 4gb
Corsair 16GB KIT DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 Vengeance LPX upgraded from Crucial 8GB KIT DDR4 2400MHz CL16 Ballistix.

 

[Lutfij]

Happy New Year!

Asus prime b450m-k
R5 5600x upgraded from R3 2200G
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard at this moment of time?

Corsair 16GB KIT DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 Vengeance LPX upgraded from Crucial 8GB KIT DDR4 2400MHz CL16 Ballistix.
You're working with one ram kit, in your build?

Did you use DDU to remove all GPU drivers, then manually reinstalled the latest driver from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

SilverStone Strider Essential 80Plus ST70F-ES230 700 W
How old is the PSU in your build?

I just bought rx 6700 xt used for mining from a guy.
That usually is a bad idea/investment/purchasing decision.

 

[smrkisk]

Happy New Year!

Asus prime b450m-k
R5 5600x upgraded from R3 2200G
What BIOS version are you on for your motherboard at this moment of time?

Corsair 16GB KIT DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 Vengeance LPX upgraded from Crucial 8GB KIT DDR4 2400MHz CL16 Ballistix.
You're working with one ram kit, in your build?

Did you use DDU to remove all GPU drivers, then manually reinstalled the latest driver from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator?

SilverStone Strider Essential 80Plus ST70F-ES230 700 W
How old is the PSU in your build?

I just bought rx 6700 xt used for mining from a guy.
That usually is a bad idea/investment/purchasing decision.

I updated bios to newest version, I used the DDU, I got 2x8 GB and the PSU is exactly 4 years old.

 

[bdcrlsn]

Is your RAM seated in the correct slots, according to the manual/manufacturer?

 

[smrkisk]

Is your RAM seated in the correct slots, according to the manual/manufacturer?

Its 2 slot motherboard so I think everything is fine. In games it normally can use 14gb if needed and in bios and task manager it normally shows 16 gb and 3200 freq. Motherboard supports up to 4666 I think or something around 4 000.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Keep in mind that older games (I'm guessing "BL2" means Borderlands 2) tended to be designed with single core performance in mind, or at least a lot of the main threads, including the one compiling graphics commands to send, are shoved onto the same core. It's the reason why the original Crysis performs relatively poorly: it was designed with the expectation we'd have 20GHz processors by now.

If you're getting say 80% on something like Cyberpunk even with all the bells and whistles turned on, I'd be a little more concerned.

 

[smrkisk]

Keep in mind that older games (I'm guessing "BL2" means Borderlands 2) tended to be designed with single core performance in mind, or at least a lot of the main threads, including the one compiling graphics commands to send, are shoved onto the same core. It's the reason why the original Crysis performs relatively poorly: it was designed with the expectation we'd have 20GHz processors by now.

If you're getting say 80% on something like Cyberpunk even with all the bells and whistles turned on, I'd be a little more concerned.

I understand you but It is not the reason in this case. I tested AC origins, Gta V, Witcher 2, Payday 2, Rust, Dark Souls 3 none of this game I was able to hit 100% or smooth framerate on less than 4k ultra.

 

[hotaru.hino]

I understand you but It is not the reason in this case. I tested AC origins, Gta V, Witcher 2, Payday 2, Rust, Dark Souls 3 none of this game I was able to hit 100% or smooth framerate on less than 4k ultra.

Unless you're running a DX12/Vulkan game, you're going to run into an issue where the performance of the game largely rests on the system's single core performance after a certain point. And AMD's pre-DX12/Vulkan capabilities usually aren't as good as NVIDIA's.

Rather than concern yourself with GPU utilization (which is a really misleading statistic because it only tells you within the sampling period how often the GPU wasn't doing something), what performance are you getting and does it line up with what other people are getting?

 

[smrkisk]

Unless you're running a DX12/Vulkan game, you're going to run into an issue where the performance of the game largely rests on the system's single core performance after a certain point. And AMD's pre-DX12/Vulkan capabilities usually aren't as good as NVIDIA's.

Rather than concern yourself with GPU utilization (which is a really misleading statistic because it only tells you within the sampling period how often the GPU wasn't doing something), what performance are you getting and does it line up with what other people are getting?

absolutely not. I go to like 55 fps on that BL2... and in that AC for example I was around 70-80 on 4K which is fine but 1080p 60-80 with drops for like 15 fps is a bit unnormal ... I should be running on like 140 fps there what I saw on internet with almost exact build.