Underperforming 3090?

[Matthew Lowe]

Hi there, I today received my MSI 3090 gaming X Trio and I have noticed almost 0 improvement in my pc performance FPS wise. I upgraded from a 2080ti which I know won’t make a crazy crazy crazy difference but for example in warzone my FPS didn’t increase at all and stayed at the same 100-130 FPS range which settings on medium. I also noticed that during warzone my gpu usage in task manager was extremely low around 1-8%
My whole pc is the following:
CPU: i9 10900 2.8Ghz
Gpu: MSI 3090 gaming X Trio
Ram: 32Gb (4x8) 4400MHz
Ssd: 1x1Tb 1x250Gb
Power: 850W
Motherboard: ROG STRIX Z490-F Gaming

Any suggestions would be much appreciated thanks!

 

[Cadder]

Screenshot of task manager while you're playing?

 

[Hakanese]

V-sync on?
Did you lock your max fps in Nvidia Control Panel?
Power Management mode to Max Performance?
You're running a 3090, put your settings on high/ultra

 

[Matthew Lowe]

Screenshot of task manager while you're playing?

I haven’t got one currently I’m not home but it was very low usage

 

[Matthew Lowe]

V-sync on?
Did you lock your max fps in Nvidia Control Panel?
Power Management mode to Max Performance?
You're running a 3090, put your settings on high/ultra

I don’t have v sync on and I tried with high and ultra and it wasn’t any different. I’ve got a friend with a almost identical set up but with a 3080 instead and he’s getting 250 FPS average with the same settings as me in warzone also max fps is off in NVIDIA control panel

 

[Hakanese]

Well when you said your gpu was at so low usage it made me think you have an fps lock/cap somewhere. Are you runing Rivatuner with Msi Afterburner? Rivatunner has a setting called Framerate limit, see if there's a figure in there

 

[Matthew Lowe]

I have only downloaded msi afterburner not rivatuner unless they come as one I haven’t downloaded it

 

[Hakanese]

well it comes and asks if you want to install it when you install AB, it's the thing that gives you the overlay that displays your comps stats and fps

 

[Cadder]

Is it just that game or others? A quick Google search reveals plenty of people struggling with the same issue with just Warzone and not other games

 

[Matthew Lowe]

Is it just that game or others? A quick Google search reveals plenty of people struggling with the same issue with just Warzone and not other games

I only play warzone csgo gta and cyber punk. In cyber punk I saw no fps increase as wel

 

[turbot1984]

All three 8 pins connected? Old psu? Turbo working on cpu to 5.2ghz.
I have problems with Warzone and Afterburner.

 

[Matthew Lowe]

All three 8 pins connected? Old psu? Turbo working on cpu to 5.2ghz.
I have problems with Warzone and Afterburner.

All my pins are connected I even changed the slot I had the gpu plugged into

 

[turbot1984]

All my pins are connected I even changed the slot I had the gpu plugged into

Have you checked Timespy etc. benchmarks against other 3090's? Maybe a screenshot of whats going on with gpu-z?

 

[The Old School Gamer]

A friend of mine has had to reduce his power limit down to 60% 'just' to get his 3090 STRIX running stable without BSODs on a Thor 850w.

Did I mention 3090's are like Humvee's? (think I did lol).
And I wasn't kidding.
They need some serious juice to run well.

Admittedly the STRIX OC is probably the most power hungry 3090 out there next to the FTW3.

 

[gpuerrilla]

It should comfortably beat the 2080Ti. Did you do a fresh install of windows (not that I can think it would be needed), can you graph it while in game to see % use of GPU+CPU.

 

[Doug2507]

What clocks is gpuz showing when playing?

 

[Distracted]

A friend of mine has had to reduce his power limit down to 60% 'just' to get his 3090 STRIX running stable without BSODs on a Thor 850w.

Did I mention 3090's are like Humvee's? (think I did lol).
And I wasn't kidding.
They need some serious juice to run well.

Admittedly the STRIX OC is probably the most power hungry 3090 out there next to the FTW3.

Is your friends issue related to over current protection?

 

[The Old School Gamer]

Possibly... he is still troubleshooting it.

Last he told me he was trying to source a Thor 1200w.
He is running a heavily overclocked Intel CPU as well, so his power draw is just colossal.

 

[Grim5]

3090 is significantly faster than 2080ti


Issues I can think of

1) cpu bottleneck
2) low resolution -> see 1)
3) psu issues
4) driver issues
5) bios/firmware issues


Can you please run msi afterburner and monitor the following

gpu usage
Gpu power draw
Gpu clock speed
Gpu fan speed
Gpu temperature
Cpu usage
Cpu clock speed
Cpu temperature
Ram usage

then play war zone with unlocked framerate and vsync disabled

 

[smogsy]

warzone is a CPU/Memory benchmark in it self. unless your gaming at 4K you will always be CPU/memory bound

going from 3200mhz ram to 4000mhz can get you over 100 fps alone in warzone. its sad but this game is cpu/memory starved.

so whack up the settings to ultra+RTX too & watch GPU go to 99% and get better frames

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