Question rtx 2060 ko bottleneck

[Nebulouso]

Hey everyone, for the past year or so, I have had a problem where my graphics card has not reached 100% while playing games, and I don't think its bottlenecked by the CPU because that's not at 100% either. I haven't been able to get good frames; while I know the 2060 is not the best card, I think I still should be getting better performance than this.

My current rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KPtDv3

Here is the performance: (Percentages on the top from left to right are: GPU usage (~35%) , Memory Usage (~26%) , and Power Usage (100%) )

LMK if you need more info or if there is anything I should do

 

[hotaru.hino]

The CPU not being at 100% doesn't mean it's not a limiting factor. Many games still have 2-3 threads that do most of the heavy lifting.

The easiest way to tell if you're running into this is lower all the graphical settings to the minimum and see if performance barely improves.

 

[Nebulouso]

The CPU not being at 100% doesn't mean it's not a limiting factor. Many games still have 2-3 threads that do most of the heavy lifting.

The easiest way to tell if you're running into this is lower all the graphical settings to the minimum and see if performance barely improves.

I went to the lowest I could, and I'm still only getting about 15-20 fps

 

[Nebulouso]

I am changing the resolution rendering from the lowest (575x323) to the highest (3840x2160) and there is no difference in performance

 

[hotaru.hino]

I am changing the resolution rendering from the lowest (575x323) to the highest (3840x2160) and there is no difference in performance

Then the CPU is the limiting factor here.

As a somewhat long winded explanation: The CPU generates the frames. The GPU draws them. If the software is too busy to allow the CPU to submit what to draw to the GPU, it won't generate as many frames.

 

[Nighthawk117]

Lol 12 FPS, seems a bit low for a 3600. What slots do you have your RAM installed in?

 

[rcald2000]

Three years ago, this game limited itself to 4 CPU cores; I suspect that Microsoft never remedied that situation. I also suspect that's part of the reason that their development team is releasing an entirely new game, which unfortunately we'll need to re-purchase or rent via the Xbox Gamepass (PC). You also may want to try running Flight Simulator 2020 in DX11 mode, and see if that boost performance any.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microsoft+flight+simulator+2024

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6RIvvMPBTg

 

[Nebulouso]

Lol 12 FPS, seems a bit low for a 3600. What slots do you have your RAM installed in?

2 and 4

 

[Nebulouso]

I recently completely reinstalled windows to try to fix the problem and it didn't do anything

 

[Nebulouso]

Then the CPU is the limiting factor here.

As a somewhat long winded explanation: The CPU generates the frames. The GPU draws them. If the software is too busy to allow the CPU to submit what to draw to the GPU, it won't generate as many frames.

would my best option be to upgrade the CPU?

 

[Nighthawk117]

2 and 4

That's fine, have you double checked your RAM is running at full speed?

 

[hotaru.hino]

would my best option be to upgrade the CPU?

Any non APU Ryzen 5000 CPU, along with the appropriate BIOS update.

 

[thestryker]

would my best option be to upgrade the CPU?

If flight sim is big for you the game loves the X3D parts because of the extremely poor nature of its thread usage, but still fits a lot into the small cache chunks.

 

[rcald2000]

If you can't achieve 99-100% GPU utilization in MSFS 2020, then that's most likely due to the poor optimization of the game. But if you're having that same issue with other games, then you're probably right, that there's something wrong. Is the problem only in Flight Simulator 2020, or other games. And if other games, what are they?

 

[Nebulouso]

That's fine, have you double checked your RAM is running at full speed?

You mean xmp? yeah that's on, otherwise how do I check

 

[Nebulouso]

Any non APU Ryzen 5000 CPU, along with the appropriate BIOS update.

why not ryzen 5000?

 

[Nebulouso]

Yeah I am having the same problem with Modern Warfare II

 

[Nighthawk117]

CPU-Z, it shows DRAM Frequency on the memory tab.

 

[Nebulouso]

CPU-Z, it shows DRAM Frequency on the memory tab.

huh, it says its running at 1600 mhz

 

[Nebulouso]

How do I fix this?

 

[Nighthawk117]

huh, it says its running at 1600 mhz

That's correct, you take that frequency and double it, so it's running at 3200.

 

[Nebulouso]

I'm looking to upgrade to a 5800 x3d and a Radeon 7900 XT, would this solve the issue? I have updated the bios

 

[Nebulouso]

Hey everyone, still having this problem with the same graphics card, I have upgraded to the ryzen 5600x

 

[Eximo]

Load up GPU-Z, make sure there is nothing coming up under perfcap while gaming that could be the source of the problem.

 

[Flayed]

Hey everyone, still having this problem with the same graphics card, I have upgraded to the ryzen 5600x

There is another thread I was contributing to with this exact same problem with the same CPU and motherboard. I think there may be something weird going on with that motherboard.