Low GPU Usage GTA V

marvin16 · Apr 18, 2015

So i have already made this thread and seen others but none have enough detail and i really need some help because this game is pissing me off.
My specs
AMD 3GB R9 280x
AMD FX 8350 - Hyper 212 - NOT A BOTTLENECK
8GB RAM
SSD
Latest 15.4 beta drivers (GTA V optimised)

The problem here is that in the game my GPU usage will sit around 50% and if i lower the settings to the LOWEST my gpu usage will go down with them to like 30% meaning that i only get like 30-40fps on lowest settings when i should be getting in the hundreds.

Help plz :L

i7Baby · Apr 18, 2015

Same with lots of people - even in this forum.

maxalge · Apr 18, 2015

marvin16 :

It actually is the cpu.

Have you tried overclocking?

Kitt Sue · Apr 18, 2015

It seems to be the CPU for now... maybe will improve with future patches but for now it seems GTA V wants high single-threaded performance. I usually get 40-50 fps. Look on YouTube, most people with FX-8350 are getting 30-50 fps.

holyrage · Apr 18, 2015

i dont see the 860K there kinda lame i bet it would have done better than the 9XXX FX if it was Oc'ed

i7Baby · Apr 18, 2015

The 860k is about the same as the fx 6350 - http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-FX-6350-vs-AMD-Athlon-X4-860K

st3v30 · Apr 18, 2015

What motherboard do you have?
Also that chart from PClab is to much wrong.
TECHSPOT CPU Bench

http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/991/bench/CPU_01.png

maxalge · Apr 18, 2015

st3v30 :

I used to go and look at techspot benchmarks, until people found out they didnt even know HOW to cpu bench properly.

CPU benchmarks have a GPU-bottleneck plateau on a lot of their "reviews", and were even caught using gpu intensive "movie" sections of games as a "cpu test".

PCLabs I find fairly accurate.

Kitt Sue · Apr 18, 2015

maxalge :

I get the feeling a lot of these places fake the benches.... not only are they often really inconsistent with each other, but they're usually not specific about how they benched it (so people can't easily reproduce the results if they wanted).

For starters, pretty much all the sites have results that seem far too linear. If you check CPU reviews on sites like Anandtech, TomsHardware etc. when hardware is released, often times an i5 does better than an i7 when games don't play well with hyper-threading, or an i3 and i5 bottleneck at basically the same point because it's a single core/thread that gets pushed to its limits.

TechSpot's bench results seem far too convenient, like the order that one would guess based on just a rudimentary understanding of the CPUs. The CPUs are in a super predictable order with consistent margins between them, it seems like someone just said "Ehh let's say the FX-8350 did a few fps better than the FX-6350, and the FX-9590 does a few fps better than the FX-8350" etc...

And then with CPULabs their results are always super low. With Battlefield 4 multiplayer their i5 and i7 results were worse than my FX-8350 results, and like half as good as real i5/i7 results with an R9 290... like the R9 290 was failign to get 60 fps at 1080P... that just doesn't happen in practice. Hell I got better performance at launch with HD 7970 and FX 8350 than they got with i7 and R9 290.

holyrage · Apr 18, 2015

wtf when did an R9 290 perform that bad obviously fake lol my OC 7950 can get 120 FPS with the AA and PP off at 1080P

tbh i would rather test things my self if i see my 3570K 0 core pushed to 100%~ iknow an FX would struggle as the game needs single core performance

and now the 4790 will always perform better than the 4690 coz of the higher base clock

and first and foremost the FX is pretty old now it was lunched back in 2012 if i had to chose between a 2700k and a FX i would go with the 2700K

if the game has shitty multi core optimization which almost every frekin game to date still does even after the PS4 and Xbone was out the I5 comes out on top hell even the I3 beats the FX any day of the week

if the game has good multi core optimization the FX comes ON PAR with the I5 it doesnt surpass it and it comes on top of the I3

marvin16 · Apr 25, 2015

Just to say still no fix here is a video i made of the issue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFIzTkohJs

i7Baby · Apr 25, 2015

What changes did you make?

As I said - there's plenty of other people with the same problem and no fix. I'd say its a new game thing - they need to make users aware that they are still 'running it in'.

st3v30 · Apr 26, 2015

Did you try to OC your CPU??
Also what mobo and PSU do you have.

st3v30 · Apr 26, 2015

Here watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzbvHCxjsZI

You can see that FX 8350 have slight bottleneck even with GTX 760 in GTA V so oc it will bottleneck you R9 280X since it is stronger card than GTX 760.
For now you can only hope for new update's and AMD drivers to fix it.

marvin16 · Apr 26, 2015

st3v30 :

Well i really dont think its a bottleneck issue if you watch my video you can see that i can get 100% gpu usage. i dont know what to think

st3v30 · Apr 26, 2015

Just wait for Rockstars Games to launch new patch and and for new AMD drives.
Try to play in 1440p since you have that option it will task GPU more.
Lot of ppl suffer from FPS issues and GPU usage (AMD cards) in GTA V.
So just wait time will fix it.
It didn't even pass 2 weeks since game is launched but it runs better then any of AAA titles that was launched in this or last year at launch or in 1st few months.

marvin16 · Apr 26, 2015

st3v30 :

I would play in 1440p however i cannot get the game to be full screen, it just stays as a box in the middle of the screen

st3v30 · Apr 26, 2015

Try with Left Alt+ Enter.Or you can set your desktop resolution to 1440p so it wont be that small window anymore on your 4k screen.

Viking2121 · May 17, 2015

So I have recently done some testing on 2 different systems, I'll post my findings after I post both system specs.

System 1:
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64
CPU: AMD FX8320 4.8ghz
RAM: 16GB Corsair vengeance 1600mhz
MOBO: ASRock 990FX Fatality Pro
VIDEO: 2x GTX 780ti's PCI-E 2.0 @x16/x16
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 1300watt

System 2:
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro x64
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770s 3.1 base 4.1ghz turbo
RAM: 16GB Corsair vengeance 1600mhz (same ram from system 1)
MOBO: Asus P8Z77-V
VIDEO: 2x GTX 780ti's PCI-E 3.0 @x8/x8
PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 1300watt

Benchmarks at 1080p on the same 144hz monitor with fraps:

System 1:
Battlefield 4: Min 118/ Avg 158/ Max 200
DayZ: Min 28/ Avg 44/ Max 130
ArmA 3: Min 42/ Avg 63/ Max 112
GTA 5: Min 58/ Avg 77/ Max 121 (had to lower advanced settings and MSAA due to vram)

System 2 (same in game settings)
Battlefield 4: Min 111/ Avg 149/ Max 186
DayZ: Min 32/ Avg 51/ Max 128
ArmA 3: Min 53/ Avg 77/ Max 119
GTA 5: Min 43/ Avg 59/ Max 115 (had to lower advanced settings and MSAA due to vram)

Both system each game settings are the same, same view distance of 1600m in both arma and dayz.

I was wanting to switch to the Intel system as well Intel is more superior from what 80% of the web says, specially with higher end GPU's, well from the 4 games I have tested, Well Intel wins in Bohemia games, but anything else multithreded the 3770s didn't win as all, it was close, but being the 3770s max obtainable OC was 4.1ghz turbo It wasn't really worth swapping my AMD build to THAT i7.

I would have tested more games and bench marks such at 3d mark, but my brother was wanting the system to get done so I cut my testing short, I will test more later when I get a chance. If I had the i7 3770k I would have swapped over.

But as you can see in my testing GTA didn't do well on the i7, but the i7 system was much more smoother when the game was alt+tabbed vs the AMD system, not sure why.

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