Low gpu usage rtx 2060

[JollyDude]

My graphics card usage seems to drop down in games to as low as 30% and i do not know why, in high demanding games it goes up to 80-90% but it never reaches the 99% mark unless it is in a benchmark which i would usually get an average score in. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this and try to keep my gpu at 99%? (this is not a bottleneck as the cpu usage doesnt go over 50%)

[The Chicagoan]

What game are you playing? Because some games like CSGO which depend more on the CPU then the GPU won't even get to 99. In CSGO for me, my GPU usage is hanging at around 30-50 when SLI is enabled. But it hangs a tad bit higher when just one card is being used.

[JollyDude]

It happens on most games, I will test it on csgo right now

[The Chicagoan]

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It happens on most games, I will test it on csgo right now

hm, what CPU do you have?

[JollyDude]

Ok i tested in csgo i get around 150fps with 56% gpu usage and 15% cpu. Also i have a ryzen 7 2700x

[Snow]

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this is not a bottleneck as the cpu usage doesnt go over 50%

That doesn't mean it's not a CPU bottleneck. If say you've got 4 cores, but the game can only utilize 2 - 50% is CPU bottleneck. But I kinda don't understand what's the problem here. Is your framerate too low to be comfortable, or are you just trying to fry an egg on your graphics card? I'd be happy to have such low GPU usage.

[JollyDude]

The problem isnt really on games like csgo, but more on games like 7 days to die and dying light.
on 7 days to die I only get about 35% gpu usage and that gives me about 40 fps which is very little for a 2060 on a 5 year old game.

The reason why I want high gpu usage is so that i can reach the 144 fps target for my monitor on games that i play a lot (like that one).

[Snow]

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Ok i tested in csgo i get around 150fps with 56% gpu usage and 15% cpu. Also i have a ryzen 7 2700x

CS:GO can only effectively run 2 threads, but you've got 16. (100/16)*2=12.5, but you've also got Windows running, some background software etc. Benchmarks on youtube show 2700X having around 15-20% usage in CS:GO. Sounds perfectly normal, and it absolutely is a CPU bottleneck as the game can't handle that much cores/threads.

[JollyDude]

Oh ok i see what you mean now. Do you know how I can possibly do something to fix games like
7 days to die running on low fps. When the game gets more demanding my usage can sometimes go up to 70% and with it comes around 90 fps and i dont understand why it cant run constantly at those rates.

[Snow]

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7 days to die and dying light

Sorry to say that, but not gonna happen. You can disable some of your cores and OC CPU and RAM to achieve a bit better performance, but that's about it. Those games just can't do that.

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The reason why I want high gpu usage is so that i can reach the 144 fps target for my monitor on games that i play a lot (like that one).

That's likely to be a misunderstanding how the graphics pipeline works. To be able to render a frame, GPU has to receive some basic information about that frame from CPU. If there is no data to process - GPU will idle, as it's not the GPU creating frames, it just continues working with frames created by CPU. You can easily get more GPU usage by increasing resolution, graphics, antialiasing, but that will just make those frames more complex, won't create new frames anyhow. So in this particular case it absolutely is the CPU bottleneck caused by games not able to use that much threads of yours. But low GPU usage not an issue, it just means you've got an awesome GPU that can deal with those games without breaking a sweat.

[JollyDude]

Ok I will look into overclocking my CPU and disabling some cores thanks for the help. I was looking at how it worked completely wrong.

I am starting to wish i bought the i7 8700k now as that has more power per core.

[Snow]

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Oh ok i see what you mean now. Do you know how I can possibly do something to fix games like
7 days to die running on low fps. When the game gets more demanding my usage can sometimes go up to 70% and with it comes around 90 fps and i dont understand why it cant run constantly at those rates.

Overclocking. Once again sorry to say that, but there's no other way around. Despite the pricing Intel CPUs are really popular for gaming because they've got higher per-core performance, and can deal with old game engines better. But it still depends on the game, like some time ago we've had a conversation on this forums about Borderlands 2 performance - it can sometimes drop to 30-40 fps with 6700k.
Still you actually did a right thing by choosing Ryzen. The new generation of consoles is just around the corner, and those will have AMD CPUs just like this gen. Will it be more cores, or still 8 but clocked higher than before, or 8/16 by SMT like you've got - games' developers will aim at utilizing more cores and threads, so you can except more and more games making a good use of your CPU. The same did happen with arguably-8-cores FX CPUs, which at first were worse than i5-2500 game-wise, but ended up coming close to i7-2600 in newer games.

[JollyDude]

Thanks a lot! Maybe picking ryzen wasn't too bad then.

[Snow]

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I am starting to wish i bought the i7 8700k now as that has more power per core.

Is 8700k better for gaming now? Absolutely.
Will 8700k be better for gaming in a few years? Now that depends on games' devs. And those first make their games for consoles. And consoles, both this gen and next gen, got AMD hardware inside. There's no middle ground here, but if I'd build a new PC right now - I'd stick with AMD without a doubt.

[JollyDude]

Do you know how i can disable some cores and how many i should keep disabled for now?

[Humble God]

Nonono

i7 2600 is best cpu this guy is lying