RTX 5080 & Ryzen 7 9800x3D - 50% GPU usage?!

[el_chapollie]

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

[packetcreeper]

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

You bought a 5080 and a 9800X3D for 1080p gaming?

Well, with that said, which RT settings are you using?

[Sgt. Flaw]

1080p????

[p.]

My 5080 + 7800x3d at 1080p psycho, without rt, without framegen and without upscaling => 95% gpu util in the benchmark.. so i think its something wrong with your setup. Maybe you have vsync on or the setting which limits fps in game?

[Titan Awaken]

Why are you on 1080p with a 5080? It’s like killing a hamster with artillery fire.

Eh, whatever. Your money, your rules.

[p.]

Originally posted by Titan Awaken:

Why are you on 1080p with a 5080? It’s like killing a hamster with artillery fire.

Eh, whatever. Your money, your rules.

well.. if you are talking to me, that's just for the sake of testing.. i'm on 1440p. If it's to OP then tbh i dont know either why but he probably has a reason or maybe he will upgrade to 2k/4k in future. :D

[V]

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

Are you even talking about GPU or CPU? 🤣

GPU will never 100% if you're playing at low resolutions.

CPU will never 100%, period. Games simply do not load all the cores fully like benchmark tools or other programs do.

[MrEWhite]

Originally posted by packetcreeper:

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

You bought a 5080 and a 9800X3D for 1080p gaming?

Well, with that said, which RT settings are you using?

Tbh, that is a good combo for high refresh rate 1080p, as you're going to be massively CPU bound at 1080p with any card better than a 4080 at this point, so you want a good CPU.

[Radical Randy]

Originally posted by V:

CPU will never 100%, period. Games simply do not load all the cores fully like benchmark tools or other programs do.

I regularly max out my cpu in cyberpunk, seen 99% on gpu and cpu simultaneously

[Obiwan]

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

Posts like this really do add weight to the whole more money than sense remarks.

I do not mean that rudely ... i just mean that you are identifying an issue because across the internet you see such issue and because you are not necessarily computer au-fait ... you feel like your results are a BAD thing ... but in fact ... provided this post is not bait ... your specs and results are indicative of a very well made game.

The difference with you Chap is that you make no bones about the fact you are not in full of knowledge of the hardware you are using ... the irony is your concern comes from the complaints and posts of those who actually have no clue .... rest easy your game and rig are performing as intended :)

[catch22atplay]

Originally posted by Obiwan:

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

Posts like this really do add weight to the whole more money than sense remarks.

I do not mean that rudely ... i just mean that you are identifying an issue because across the internet you see such issue and because you are not necessarily computer au-fait ... you feel like your results are a BAD thing ... but in fact ... provided this post is not bait ... your specs and results are indicative of a very well made game.

The difference with you Chap is that you make no bones about the fact you are not in full of knowledge of the hardware you are using ... the irony is your concern comes from the complaints and posts of those who actually have no clue .... rest easy your game and rig are performing as intended :)

He did say fps dropped to as low as 70fps using 1080p ultra settings and that's the concerning part to me. We don't know if dlss was used and the settings. By saying ultra we can assume it means no Ray Tracing and or Path Tracing. But we really don't know for sure. Just a quick benchmark using settings as shown below. And note i typically run at 2k Pcycho settings, dlss balanced, Path tracing+RR and maintain 60+fps and no framegen.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3428311296

Now what does my gpu running at 53% imply? cpu is bottlenecking, Bandwidth issues of pci-e, bandwidth issues with gpu vram, system ram bandwidth, game engine limitation and so on.

For the Op it's been noted that currently there's an issue with RTX 5xxx and pci-e 5.0. Some suggest forcing pci-e 4.0 mode in bios. Currently some are dropping to 8 lanes instead of 16 and or dropping to pci-e 5.0 @ x16 1.1 mode when 3d rendering. It should be pci-e 5.0 @ x16 5.0 mode. I'm not sure if the pci-e 5.0 problem is a motherboard bios issue or gpu bios or gpu driver issue. I read some fixed the issue with motherboard bios updates feb 2025.

I'd suggest downloading then running gpuz. It has a render test and will change pci-e mode and tell you how many lanes it's using in real time. I'm running the game but at fullscreeen and i'm tabbed out so it says i'm running at x16 4.0 @ x16 1.1 mode when using mouse switches to @ x16 2.0 mode. Hit the ? right of that and it'll show a Render test. Hit that and no need for fullscreen. It should change to @ x16 5.0 mode if your mobo does pci-e 5.0 that is. Mine ofc says @ x16 4.0.

[Glup Shìtto]

Dude you're rendering @ 1080p, dial it the ♥♥♥♥ up and actually put your gpu to work lol. Try 4k Ultra and post a screenshot of that, I wanna see the metrics.

[failsafe]

Originally posted by V:

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

Are you even talking about GPU or CPU? 🤣

GPU will never 100% if you're playing at low resolutions.

CPU will never 100%, period. Games simply do not load all the cores fully like benchmark tools or other programs do.

Depends on the game and your CPU and GPU

[Proxy]

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

I just tested my system 9800X3D+4090. At the entrance of Megabuilding H10 where your apartment is, the game is heavily CPU bound. 1440P ultra no FG/DLSS I see ~110fps, 85% GPU usage and 40% CPU usage.

At 1080p ultra I get around 230fps with 60% GPU usage and 65% CPU usage.

Your usage seems to be OK, but your frame rate is terribly low.

[TotalTriscuit]

Originally posted by el_chapollie:

Why is it only using 50% of my GPU at 1080p Ultra settings? It sometimes drops to 70fps, shouldn't this CPU be enough to handle this game? How to get it to 100% usage?

I have no words....

[Das_Noobi]

I have a 5080 with i5 14600KF no problems at all. 95-98% usage. In WQHD.