GPU power usage issues

tamasmaul

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Oct 22, 2016
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Hi!
I have an fx8300 with a gtx750 2gb for a long time now, but in the last weeks I experienced some issue while playing, tried out a lot of things, and found out that it should be some gpu software/setting issue.
First i had some fps drops, just for a few sec, then in became constant.

The case is: I was monitoring my gaming with afterburner, and found out that my GPU power usage is around 1-5% at windows screen, I was like okay, what matter is how it works under load, but while playing its still constantly under 20% which is ridicilous even while playing csgo.
https://postimg.org/image/5prt5uvch/ CSGO screenshot
I just tried a benchmark to test it and found out that there's no problem with the gpu itself, since its around 80% power usage.
https://postimg.org/image/b1im365rx/ Heaven screenshot
I also saw that limit voltage 1 shown in afterburner while its working well(and no load limit 1 while its bad), and also that the gpu is changing to a higher voltage, 1168 when it using the boost clock, and start working, so I reduced the base clock so it was always at the higher voltage according to afterburner, and it reduced to under 1000mV when i tried to set a higher clock speed, but in actual games none of them had any effect.
https://postimg.org/image/ib3o90mkj/ MSI voltage
I already reinstalled my windows with a clean install, downloaded all the newest drivers possible, checked all the nvidia settings, tried with older drivers as well, so now I'm lost. Do you have any idea?
 
Solution
How much of the gpu is getting used in that game is determined by your CPU. CSGO is not graphically intensive, so especially at higher framerates your fps is determined almost exclusively by your cpu's single core performance. If you want more frames and you have a 990fx motherboard, buy a decent cpu cooler and overclock. Otherwise I'd suggest switching to intel sometime in the future.
How much of the gpu is getting used in that game is determined by your CPU. CSGO is not graphically intensive, so especially at higher framerates your fps is determined almost exclusively by your cpu's single core performance. If you want more frames and you have a 990fx motherboard, buy a decent cpu cooler and overclock. Otherwise I'd suggest switching to intel sometime in the future.
 
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tamasmaul

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Oct 22, 2016
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Edited the post to be correct.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3278928/gpu-usage-benchmarks-games.html
This is the original thread, I dont really know how this has been posted aswell, with a description I did not even write.