99% GPU Usage

[Happy]

Anyone else experiencing 99% GPU usage? I have 3070 and my gf 1070 and the game takes 99% of our GPU while playing, which is unacceptable. The only way to fix that, is to cap the frames at 60, which isn't ideal either.

[Strexxin]

Having your gpu running at 99% on uncapped fps is perfectly normal, it is actually telling you that you don't have a cpu bottleneck. All of the games you mentioned in your other post, Battlefield, COD, Cyberpunk are all optimized terribly so they won't be using your gpu properly. You say you know how your gpu works, I am not sure you do based on what you have said so far.

[Happy]

Originally posted by Strexxin:

Having your gpu running at 99% on uncapped fps is perfectly normal, it is actually telling you that you don't have a cpu bottleneck. All of the games you mentioned in your other post, Battlefield, COD, Cyberpunk are all optimized terribly so they won't be using your gpu properly. You say you know how your gpu works, I am not sure you do based on what you have said so far.

It’s capped at 120 and does it on both PCs. No game out there i played so far did this with my gpu except this, especially when being capped at 120, so that’s what i find weird about it.

Those games are just examples, but I played pretty much all kinds of games and genres, from AAA to Indie and never seen this:)

[Dravic]

Perhaps the games you played weren't as demanding GPU-wise, you still have not specified what games you played so "AAA" could mean you were playing for example racing games which aren't demanding at all.
If you have issue that this game on Ultra settings uses 99% of your GPU, what resolution is your monitor and what framerates are you getting? There is a lot of information you'd need to give us before we can determine if it's a real issue or you are tripping.

[Hamman]

Oh well, 99% usage is correct, 3070 is not that good so just limit the framerate to not get full usage of the gpu.. makes sense, right? Its like complaining that your car gets bad mpg when u go full throttle all the time and you want dealer to fix it. You get what I mean?

Btw 1070 surely needs to get 99% as its kinda weak in 2021.

[Dravic]

Originally posted by Hamman:

Oh well, 99% usage is correct, 3070 is not that good so just limit the framerate to not get full usage of the gpu.. makes sense, right? Its like complaining that your car gets bad mpg when u go full throttle all the time and you want dealer to fix it. You get what I mean?

Btw 1070 surely needs to get 99% as its kinda weak in 2021.

The GPU is always supposed to run at 100% usage whenever possible unless you have CPU bottleneck or you manually limited the maximum framerate below your GPU's maximum capability (i.e. VSync ON, or frame limiter).

HOWEVER RTX 3070 is not even close to "not that good", it's literally very similar to RTX 2080ti. It's full on cap from you, stop the cap. It is an extremely good card.

[Hamman]

Originally posted by Dravic:

HOWEVER RTX 3070 is not even close to "not that good", it's literally very similar to RTX 2080ti. It's full on cap from you, stop the cap. It is an extremely good card.

I mean not that good if he wants to run it 4K 120fps ultra with lower gpu usage for example

[Dravic]

Originally posted by Hamman:

Originally posted by Dravic:

HOWEVER RTX 3070 is not even close to "not that good", it's literally very similar to RTX 2080ti. It's full on cap from you, stop the cap. It is an extremely good card.

I mean not that good if he wants to run it 4K 120fps ultra with lower gpu usage for example

There is no such thing as 4k 120fps Ultra, you have been lied to. I mean sure, you can say that is true for most games that aren't demanding, but for games that actually kick your GPU - Cyberpunk, AC Valhalla, Watch Dogs, Hitman 3, etc. - not even RTX 3090 is going to pull 120 frames per second in 3840x2160 consistently with no hiccups no matter what at ultra settings. That's why monitors for the last few years have FREESYNC/G-SYNC features, so that you don't need to worry about frame drops. Buy a good monitor with adaptive sync feature, and in the most demanding games you can just drop some settings slightly and you're golden with an RTX 3070.

Now, back to the topic of "It Takes Two", I don't see OP mentioning his resolution anywhere so I can only assume it's like 1080p or 1440p, which should be easy to drive at 60+ frames per second with a RTX 3070.

I've seen some benchmark of RTX 1060 pulling 60+ fps in 1080p, come on now. RTX 3070 is going to run this pretty well.

[Hamman]

No such thing as 4K 120fps ultra? So you saying that there is no 3840x2160 with 120fps on ultra settings in this universe? Well I dont know who has been lied to :)

Btw with 1080ti it gets just about 50% gpu usage 1440p capped 60fps.. i think Ill uncap it and whine about it that its poorly made like OP does 🥲😁

[Dravic]

https://youtu.be/Ni9vrA3fBwI

Literally an RTX 1060 in Ultra settings and 1920x1080 resolution (1080p 16:9) running game on max settings above 60 fps, easily. Reaches averages of 80 fps, actually. And obviously it has 99% GPU usage, so as you can see, dear OP - that's how it should work.

If your RTX 3070 is at 99% usage while you play this game, perhaps your GPU is not setting clocks to maximum possible or overheats? That could be a real issue if it was true. The only way RTX 3070 can't handle this game is if you are playing on desktop/2D core clock or something, if there was an issue with your card not boosting to 3D core clock properly.

[Dravic]

Originally posted by Hamman:

No such thing as 4K 120fps ultra? So you saying that there is no 3840x2160 with 120fps on ultra settings in this universe? Well I dont know who has been lied to :)

Btw with 1080ti it gets just about 50% gpu usage 1440p capped 60fps.. i think Ill uncap it and whine about it that its poorly made like OP does 🥲😁

Can you read my comment again? I said that games that are graphically demanding, games that actually use your GPU fully, will not reach consistent 4k 120fps, it's a pipe dream and you've been lied to. I said "it doesn't exist" as a figure of speech.

[Hamman]

Well yes it had to be just on the edge of gpu capabilities to see 99% with stable 120fps, thats correct.