New Graphics Card Problems.

[TerrancethePickle]

Hey everyone, having some really annoying weird problems with my new graphics card.
I Bought myself a new hd7950 just the other day, installed it yesterday.
HOWEVER, in battlefield 3 no matter what settings i'm on, it wont achieve a stable 60FPS.

At ultra settings (what it should be able to run with no problems), I gets 60 fps in buildings but it drops to around 30 in the open with vehicles and such.

It does this with every setting, even at low it drops to 35-40 in the open.
I've noticed that the graphics card usage never gets to 99%.
On ultra settings the GPU usage peaks at around 75.
On low settings the GPU stays at around 20-30 usage, i have no idea why it would be doing this.
When i stress test the GPU with Kombustor the GPU usage stays at 99% percent with no problems.

Here are my PC specs:

MSI HD R7950
Gigabyte GA-970-DS3 Mobo
AMD FX-8350 CPU
8GB 1600Mhz Ram
1TB Sea gate HDD

Things i'm sure it isn't:

-CPU bottlenecking, The CPU usage never goes above 65% on Ultra.
-Overheating, The GPU never goes above 73 and the CPU never above 55

Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[lonewolf7]

I think the GPU is faulty, try to replace it.

 

[TerrancethePickle]

I think the GPU is faulty, try to replace it.

I'm sure the GPU isn't faulty, on other games such as bioshock infinite it runs at 99% GPU usage fine without problems.

 

[lonewolf7]

Bioshock Infinite is not that much of a demanding or GPU hungry game. My friend plays it with GT 240 GPU without any problem. What is the brand/model of PSU ?