Poor Benchmarks and GPU usage

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I was benching my gpu (zotac 1080 extreme amp edition) with valley benchmark demo on extreme hd 1080p and i was getting a score around 3966. My Friend got higher score 4349 with a gtx 1070 (i5 6600k). So im kinda wondering whats going on because i have a 1700x cpu.

I got msi afterburner and found out my gpu wasn't going over 65% usage... so i figured cpu was the bottleneck. So i Overclocked cpu to 3.9ghz on all 8 cores (had no overclock before) on ryzen master and still the same gpu usage and framerates. Something is not right here. Was wondering if anybody had some ideas... why wont it use the GPU fully? i tried the tweaks for nivida cards on valley benchmark listed on other websites.

System Specs

1700x amd
Zotac gtx 1080 Extreme Amp Ed.
16gb kingston 2133
x370 asus prime pro
750w evga G2
running off WD black 512gb nvme
 
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gussrtk
im sure someone else is gonna come one day and clear it up extremely well. but here's the first response i guess... lol

Your GPU doesn't need to be pegged at 100% to be working properly, it's probably even better that it's at a lower percentage because it just means it's not bottlenecking. Bottleneck is "generally" represented by one component operating at 100% that's why you call it bottleneck, because it cannot go above 100% usage.

as far as the score goes, lets just say.. benchmarks.. are benchmarks.. they do not represent so much on... how EXACTLY your system is, but just a general idea, don't get stuck on numbers.

another note... Your 1700x is a great CPU, but.. it is AMD.. and what i mean by that.. is ... There are many cores...
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im sure someone else is gonna come one day and clear it up extremely well. but here's the first response i guess... lol

Your GPU doesn't need to be pegged at 100% to be working properly, it's probably even better that it's at a lower percentage because it just means it's not bottlenecking. Bottleneck is "generally" represented by one component operating at 100% that's why you call it bottleneck, because it cannot go above 100% usage.

as far as the score goes, lets just say.. benchmarks.. are benchmarks.. they do not represent so much on... how EXACTLY your system is, but just a general idea, don't get stuck on numbers.

another note... Your 1700x is a great CPU, but.. it is AMD.. and what i mean by that.. is ... There are many cores.. but they are generally weaker cores to their intel counterparts. So, if you look at single core performance, the 1700x will lose out no doubt. If you put a load on the CPU with an application that requires 8 cores, then the 6600k will fall short of your 1700x.

It's the OVERALL system that really differs between everyone, many things count in final score. If for gaming, intel.. is just a better way to go (today, generally). If for a work station that requires multicore application (over 4) then AMD is the way.

still, you have a nice system, don't worry
 
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