CPU capped at 50%, bottlenecking my GPU to only around 50-60%?

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chewypiano

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So for Christmas I bought myself a new rig, but for some reason my Ryzen 5 1600 (@3.9GHz) isn't pushing full load, but only MAX 60%. This problem is bottlenecking my graphics card (GTX 1070 Ti) to around 50-60%. I know this card isn't made for 1080p gaming, but I assure you I shouldn't be dipping into the 70's in Battlefield 1 Ultra 1080p.. I have my ram overclocked to 2933 (w/ DOCP/XMP), and my bios is fully up to date. Here are my specs:

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.9 GHz

MOBO: ASUS Prime B350M-A/CSM

MEMORY: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB 2400MHz @ 2933MHz

HDD: WD BLUE 1TB

GPU: NVIDIA 1070 Ti Founders Editon

Can anyone let me know of any solutions? Thanks.
 
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Supernova1138

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Do keep in mind that most games cannot scale perfectly across 6 cores and 12 threads, so it is possible to be CPU bottlenecked while not having 100% overall CPU usage. That said, BF1 uses the Frostbite Engine which is known to scale well across lots of threads, so you shouldn't be bottlenecked that badly. Make sure you run BF1 in DirectX 11 mode. DirectX 12 mode is more or less broken on Nvidia GPUs and will likely result in reduced performance.

You may also want to check to make sure your CPU is actually maintaining the 3.9GHz clockspeed while gaming. You have a somewhat low end motherboard so throttling either due to high thermals or overtaxing the board's power delivery system is a possibility if you had to run a lot of voltage through the chip to get 3.9GHz.
 
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I did have to put my voltages up to 1.38750 to achieve 3.9 GHz. I could have the voltages down to 1.23750 if I want 3.8 GHz, though. The thing is, is that my CPU runs from 70-80 degrees on load, so I don't think it would be thermal throttling. The problem still happens when I'm on 3.8, so I still don't understand why some benchmark videos with this processor and the normal 1070 get over 100fps constantly in multiplayer, while sustaining 70-80% CPU usage and 99% GPU usage..
 
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Hmm, maybe try removing your overclock and run at stock settings and see what happens. At the very least it would help rule out whether your overclock is the cause of the low performance. Remove the RAM overclock as well, if your sticks are only rated at 2400MHz, then pushing them up to 2933 might be causing problems.
 
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I've reduced the overclock, and to my knowledge the performance ingame is the same as before, though running alot cooler. I'm pretty sure by now it's the GPU that isn't performing well in the first place, not the processor bottlenecking it. This same low GPU usage also occures in GTA 5, a pretty well optimized game, which I'd expect to be able to keep up with my GPU. Is there any fix to this low GPU usage, now that we know it's not the CPU fault?
 
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I was actually thinking about this! Thank you my man! After downgrading my driver to 388.59, everything seems to be working fine! I'm now getting 120+ fps average, always above 100! Don't know why the new driver was unstable, that's pretty weird.
 
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