[SOLVED] RTX 3080 Underperforming and CPU being used instead.

[uhhpat]

PC Specs:
ASUS Rog Strix B550-F Motherboard
Ryzen 9 3900X
Asus RTX 3080 TUF OC
HyperX Fury DDR4 3200Hmz 16GB (8x2)
Corsairs TX750M
1920x1080 Resolution

Last year I bought a PC in parts and built it. I felt like my PC wasn't performing to it's standards, for example in Call of Duty Modern Warfare. I was running all low settings and was getting about 100-120 FPS. Aswell as in GTA where I would get about 60-80 FPS while others would be higher frames with either the same specs or lower specs.
Another problem I am having is my games running on CPU instead of my GPU. When I play Rainbow Six Siege my GPU stays at 0%.

I hope someone will be able to help me.
Thanks

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

What power profile do you have selected? Try high performance of Ultimate. If you don't have those options on power plans, then you can activate them by doing the following:

open powershell and paste the following text: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

for ultimate paste this text: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 .

Test again and report back. You can also make sure you have the most up to date chipset drivers for your mobo, to be sure you also have the option of the Ryzen power plan which may also help.

 

[hotaru.hino]

If you're using Task Manager to monitor GPU activity, the "3D" graph sometimes doesn't get triggered. You have to click on the graph header and change it to "Graphics_1" or something.

Or you can use something like GPU-z or HWiNFO.

 

[uhhpat]

Hey there,

What power profile do you have selected? Try high performance of Ultimate. If you don't have those options on power plans, then you can activate them by doing the following:

open powershell and paste the following text: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

for ultimate paste this text: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 .

Test again and report back. You can also make sure you have the most up to date chipset drivers for your mobo, to be sure you also have the option of the Ryzen power plan which may also help.

I activated ultimate performance and saw a bit better performance. But in games like Rainbow Six Siege my game still runs on my CPU for some reason. Do you have any fix for this aswell?
Thanks

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I activated ultimate performance and saw a bit better performance. But in games like Rainbow Six Siege my game still runs on my CPU for some reason. Do you have any fix for this aswell?
Thanks

You must be mistaken. Your games cannot run on the CPU. Your CPU doesn't have an iGPU, so it will only run off your discrete card (3080). There must be some other issue at play.

What speeds are your ram running at? Can you run CPU-z and show the tabs for 'spd' and 'memory'.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

All chipset drivers/gpu drivers up to date. Windows too? Also look at updating your bios, as it could be a base hardware issue.

 

[sizzling]

What resolution are you running?

Run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.

 

[uhhpat]

What resolution are you running?

Run userbenchmark and share the public link to the results.

Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Performance Results - UserBenchmark

 

[uhhpat]

You must be mistaken. Your games cannot run on the CPU. Your CPU doesn't have an iGPU, so it will only run off your discrete card (3080). There must be some other issue at play.

What speeds are your ram running at? Can you run CPU-z and show the tabs for 'spd' and 'memory'.

https://prnt.sc/1r8b3mv

https://prnt.sc/1r8b4er

 

[sizzling]

Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Performance Results - UserBenchmark

At 1080p you will struggle to fully utilise a 3080. However it does look like something is wrong as the benchmark is not detecting the 3080. Id try removing the gpu driver using DDU and then reinstalling the latest driver.

Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.4.3 (guru3d.com)

 

[uhhpat]

At 1080p you will struggle to fully utilise a 3080. However it does look like something is wrong as the benchmark is not detecting the 3080. Id try removing the gpu driver using DDU and then reinstalling the latest driver.

Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.4.3 (guru3d.com)

I ran a new benchmark after re-installing GPU drivers and I believe it is fixed.
Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Performance Results - UserBenchmark
Thank you for the help!