Morning all. I recently acquired a 9070 GPU. My system is a 5600x 32gb ram. I feel there is not much improvement over my 6750xt.. GPU is not using anywhere near full power. It's pulling less than 100w (see link). I see massive improvement in other games but hell divers and space marine seem to have only seen minor improvements. https://ibb.co/rKYdKDnw Also my steel nomad score seems to be on the low side.
I think your cpu is bottlenecking slightly there, you can see the high % utilisation, so that's probably limiting the gpu performance. You could potentially increase a couple of settings without any loss of performance as a result. (I know it's 'only' 85%, but that is overall, could easily be a thread or two hitting 100% and slowing things down etc)
Make sure you have a recent bios and you have ReBAR enabled. Install HWINFO and graph CPU usage and GPU usage, see what's happening. Your GPU does seem underutilized, and as George pointed out that's possibly a CPU bottleneck. What resolution are you gaming at? Are you using FSR?
1440p.. installed most recent bios about 2 weeks ago.. not sure what rebar is. https://ibb.co/F4FfzNy3 these are the settings in adrenaline And CPU usage https://ibb.co/s9WmPGTb
Yeah your GPU is barely doing anything. It's 80% usage, but 80% of whatever clock it boosts to at 90 watts. Your CPU at 65+% on all cores is quite high. I don't own the game so I don't know what performance to expect. I wouldn't think you'd need FSR and super resolution with a 9070 though.
Something is definitely still off there. Have you updated your drivers? Going back a bit; ReBar (or Smart Access Memory) is a UEFI option which allows the OS full access to the GPU VRAM at any given moment. It's meant to improve frame-rates though mileage may vary. It is definitely worth enabling.
I can see you’re also getting a ton of suggestions/help over on OcUK forums, so my reply will be shorter than originally planned. An easy way to check if ReBAR is enabled is GPU-Z - the advanced tab will tell you. Disable upscaling and frame generation to get a baseline measure of performance in game. Crank it all the way at 1440p (assuming that’s your monitor’s native res) and take it from there. Until you have a baseline you can't measure the change in performance when you change settings, and technology like upscaling & frame generation will just muddy the waters. I’m not saying don’t use them ever, just turn them off in order to establish the baseline “raw” performance. Don’t just look at overlays in-game to measure the CPU/GPU utilisation. As suggested by @yuusou, grab HWiNFO, open up the charts, and have it running in the background while you’re running the game. That’ll show you changes over time and gives you a much better idea of where the pressure points are (particular scenes, effects, etc). Measuring CPU & GPU utilisation over time across a number of different settings will tease out whether your CPU is bottlenecking the card and whether you can tweak/change any settings to ease that pressure. But you still need that baseline in order to have a point for comparison. Unless you’re willing to just throw money at the problem and upgrade your CPU, board, and RAM, you’ll need to do a bit of work to figure out how to make the best of what you’ve got.
Having recently had a similar upgrade, going from Rx 5700 (non xt), to a 7900xtx, I saw a massive performance boost in Helldivers 2. I went from having to scale down settings to ~medium at 1440p and it still getting really choppy at times, to having settings at ultra on a 3440x1440 monitor and getting about 100fps. I would suggest uninstalling the drivers completely, then installing using the factory reset option.
thanks for all the help.. will get onto it tomorrow with Rebar, HWInfo etc. i have upscaled to 4k in space marine for example and usage of GPU has got into the high 90% and fps from high 60's to 80's. but yes try this and save some money!!
