- May 3, 2019
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I upgraded from a Vega64 to this 3080. I've never run into this usage issue before. I think this card and this CPU go well together, but I don't feel I'm seeing the gains I should and especially in stability.
Some games saw a huge improvement. I think Teardown gained 100+fps and is butter. In Subnautica (a terribly optimized game, but still a benchmark) I was getting about 70fps and it's up to 110 now, but it's not at all stable and the overall effect feels choppy . Rocket League (not a taxing game) I get ~500fps, but it's low end is 60. The dips weren't too noticeable, but my hobbled Vega 64 managed to maintain lower (target 165fps) but more stable frames. Minecraft was hard to find a baseline since I use custom shaders, but I saw no gains at all with shaders and saw 120fps without. I expected more, but MC is it's own monster.
During any of these games (and all the others I didn't list) the usage for the CPU and GPU was about 50% usage each give or take 10%.
This card takes 3 8-pin power cables. On my PSU, 1 cable is a Y with a single connection, the other is a single connection. I don't have 2 more single cables to test if the Y is to blame. I don't know why it would be, the Y worked fine with the Vega.
I'm new to the nvidia control panel, but I changed globally to "prefer maximum performance" in 3D settings which seemed to be the response most people got asking this question on other threads, and most reported it worked. Sadly, it didn't do anything for me.
tl;dr
3080 matched with 2700 is only utilizing ~50-60% each.
Some games saw a huge improvement. I think Teardown gained 100+fps and is butter. In Subnautica (a terribly optimized game, but still a benchmark) I was getting about 70fps and it's up to 110 now, but it's not at all stable and the overall effect feels choppy . Rocket League (not a taxing game) I get ~500fps, but it's low end is 60. The dips weren't too noticeable, but my hobbled Vega 64 managed to maintain lower (target 165fps) but more stable frames. Minecraft was hard to find a baseline since I use custom shaders, but I saw no gains at all with shaders and saw 120fps without. I expected more, but MC is it's own monster.
During any of these games (and all the others I didn't list) the usage for the CPU and GPU was about 50% usage each give or take 10%.
This card takes 3 8-pin power cables. On my PSU, 1 cable is a Y with a single connection, the other is a single connection. I don't have 2 more single cables to test if the Y is to blame. I don't know why it would be, the Y worked fine with the Vega.
I'm new to the nvidia control panel, but I changed globally to "prefer maximum performance" in 3D settings which seemed to be the response most people got asking this question on other threads, and most reported it worked. Sadly, it didn't do anything for me.
tl;dr
3080 matched with 2700 is only utilizing ~50-60% each.