Question Unreasonable low performance

[Friisern]

Hi there!

During the summer I upgraded my GPU to keep up with the demand of current games, and although it significantly boosted my performance coming from a 1070ti, it seems to be underperforming compared to similar setups. I have struggled with keeping up with the refresh rate of my monitor (165hz, 1440p) on most recent games, which i feel should not be the case. Tinkering with the graphics settings within the games rarely provides any significant fps boost, maybe 10ish fps give or take from max to low. I thought that maybe my CPU was the problem, but the cores ranges from 25-80% usage under load, and temps are at 70-80°C. I did a benchmark test on 3DMark Time Spy, and scored a 26000 graphics score (average for 7900 xtx is around 30000), and an over all score of 20600. Given that my card came OC'ed with stock 2990 MHz and temps being around 60-63 °C (hotspot 89°C) under load, I can't fathom how my card scores below average. I have no idea were to start and what is causing this bad performance. Any insight into what is causing it, or were to start troubleshooting would be much appreciated.

Games
Marvel Rivals (fps from 60-150 depending on where, no frame gen)
Deadlock (120-150 fps mid settings)
Path of Exile 2 (90-100 fps while in hideout, drastically lower when actually doing content)
Black Myth: Wukong (140ish fps, most setting on high from my collection)

Side note: Yes, these games are far from optimized, but I am watching people stream with higher fps on similar or worse setups.

System specs
GPU:ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC
PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000w PSU
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F GAMING II
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz 16GB (2x8GB)
SSD: WD Black SN850 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD

 

[Lutfij]

ASUS ROG Strix B450-F GAMING II
What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard?

I thought that maybe my CPU was the problem, but the cores ranges from 25-80% usage under load, and temps are at 70-80°C.
Ideally I would've upgraded the processor to the X3D variant or at the very least moved away from the APU.

Side note: Yes, these games are far from optimized, but I am watching people stream with higher fps on similar or worse setups.
You might want to mention the specs of the people who say they're running the same games you're playing on a worse system. To add if it's on YT, you shouldn't believe everything that's published up on YT.

Use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, Nvidia and AMD) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000w PSU
How old is the PSU?

Besides the 4 titles you've listed above, what other titles have you taxed the system with?

 

[DaleH]

Hi there!

During the summer I upgraded my GPU to keep up with the demand of current games, and although it significantly boosted my performance coming from a 1070ti, it seems to be underperforming compared to similar setups. I have struggled with keeping up with the refresh rate of my monitor (165hz, 1440p) on most recent games, which i feel should not be the case. Tinkering with the graphics settings within the games rarely provides any significant fps boost, maybe 10ish fps give or take from max to low. I thought that maybe my CPU was the problem, but the cores ranges from 25-80% usage under load, and temps are at 70-80°C. I did a benchmark test on 3DMark Time Spy, and scored a 26000 graphics score (average for 7900 xtx is around 30000), and an over all score of 20600. Given that my card came OC'ed with stock 2990 MHz and temps being around 60-63 °C (hotspot 89°C) under load, I can't fathom how my card scores below average. I have no idea were to start and what is causing this bad performance. Any insight into what is causing it, or were to start troubleshooting would be much appreciated.

Games
Marvel Rivals (fps from 60-150 depending on where, no frame gen)
Deadlock (120-150 fps mid settings)
Path of Exile 2 (90-100 fps while in hideout, drastically lower when actually doing content)
Black Myth: Wukong (140ish fps, most setting on high from my collection)

Side note: Yes, these games are far from optimized, but I am watching people stream with higher fps on similar or worse setups.

System specs
GPU:ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC
PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000w PSU
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F GAMING II
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz 16GB (2x8GB)
SSD: WD Black SN850 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD

I think it is really hard to compare systems based on the hardware alone. There are invariably processes running on the comparison computer that are not running on yours.

 

[Friisern]

ASUS ROG Strix B450-F GAMING II
What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard?

System info says: American Megatrends Inc. 5404, 18-Mar-24

I thought that maybe my CPU was the problem, but the cores ranges from 25-80% usage under load, and temps are at 70-80°C.
Ideally I would've upgraded the processor to the X3D variant or at the very least moved away from the APU.

At some point in the not-so-distant-future I am going to switch out mobo, ram and processor, so I'm not going to buy a slightly better CPU that would fit the current setup, as that would be money out the window.

Side note: Yes, these games are far from optimized, but I am watching people stream with higher fps on similar or worse setups.
You might want to mention the specs of the people who say they're running the same games you're playing on a worse system. To add if it's on YT, you shouldn't believe everything that's published up on YT.

Usually they have similar configs to mine, but as mentioned earlier, when I go from high to low settings, I usually only get a few frames out of it on the games I have tested so far. An example is a Marvel Rivals streamer that just upgraded his setup to 4070ti, and he was pretty stable around 200 fps, a game that i struggle to run at 140+ on most settings on low. A friend has a slightly better CPU, but a 3080ti and running PoE2 on ultra wide 1440p, and he has better fps than me across the board, even in hideout where there are no mobs to load.

Use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, Nvidia and AMD) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver sourced from AMD's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

I shall test doing this again, but I did exactly this when I installed the GPU.

PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000w PSU
How old is the PSU?

7-8 months

Besides the 4 titles you've listed above, what other titles have you taxed the system with?

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree, but this game is locked at 60fps, although i did struggle at times to even stay at 60 fps.
Last Epoch, never really reached refresh rate here either. 100-150 fps if i remember correctly.
Path of Exile 1, doing hard content here is taxing on any system, and is as far as I know, very CPU intensive. fps from 3-165+ depending on the content.

I think it is really hard to compare systems based on the hardware alone. There are invariably processes running on the comparison computer that are not running on yours.

There might be some bloat running in background on my pc, but they are streaming on top of gaming, which mean that I should pull ahead fps wise. And the benchmarks shows that something is off. My card is scoring about 15% lower than the average 7900 xtx, while my stock tunings are above average, so something is off. I think it is fair to assume that one of the best GPU's on the market should manage 165+ fps at 1440p in games that are not CPU intensive.

 

[logainofhades]

That 5700g is doing you no favors at all. It's pitiful amount of cache really holds it back. Make sure XMP is turned on, for your ram. I think Asus calls it DOCP.