Question My GPU's utilization is almost always at 100% for no reason. Is this normal?

[Daniel9923]

I have been experiencing some issues with my GPU lately. It runs at 0% or 100% and spikes quickly and dramatically. I have already run an antivirus that came up empty, so I don't think I have any viruses. When idling, it spikes between 0% and 80%, and running any game keeps it at 100%.
My specs are AMD Ryzen 5 5600G CPU
B55-A Pro MSI Motherboard
32 Gig DDR4 4 sticks RAM
Radeon RX 580 Series GPU
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GT, 80 plus Gold 650W
All components are brand new except for the GPU and 2 sticks of RAM, which were tested/used by the tech report. If anyone has an answer or solution to this issue, I would appreciate a response as soon as possible. This problem has been quite frustrating for me.

 

[balloonshark]

Not sure if I can help but you can add a gpu and/or gpu engine column in task manager. It may help point you to the guilty process or processes.

 

[Daniel9923]

How do you do that in windows 11?

 

[balloonshark]

How do you do that in windows 11?

In task manager - processes, right-click "name", "status" or one of the existing columns and tick the columns you want.

 

[Daniel9923]

After checking task manager nothing abnormal is going on but running games uses 100% of my gpu

 

[In2Photos]

After checking task manager nothing abnormal is going on but running games uses 100% of my gpu

What games and what resolution? What settings in the game?

 

[balloonshark]

In certain games my gpu will go nuts when sitting in the game menu. The last time I played BF 2042 (many months ago) it kept the noisy gpu fans running. Tomb Raider did the same thing.

Also, did it just start doing this or did it start after you installed something new? If you suspect a new file you can upload it to virustotal as long as it's under 650MB. Just be aware that some of the scanners usually throw up false positives. You can post the scan link here in this topic if you have questions.

VirusTotal

VirusTotal

www.virustotal.com

 

[Daniel9923]

In certain games my gpu will go nuts when sitting in the game menu. The last time I played BF 2042 (many months ago) it kept the noisy gpu fans running. Tomb Raider did the same thing.

Also, did it just start doing this or did it start after you installed something new? If you suspect a new file you can upload it to virustotal as long as it's under 650MB. Just be aware that some of the scanners usually throw up false positives. You can post the scan link here in this topic if you have questions.

VirusTotal

VirusTotal

www.virustotal.com

It has almost always been doing this

 

[Daniel9923]

What games and what resolution? What settings in the game?

Almost any game under almost any settings

 

[Daniel9923]

Also, Task manager, AMD Adrenaline Edition, and the Dev Home have very conflicting utilization metrics. Which one is the most reliable? And is my GPU even that good?

 

[In2Photos]

The RX580 is 3 generations old, released over 6 years ago. Newer games will tax it heavily.

 

[In2Photos]

Also, Task manager, AMD Adrenaline Edition, and the Dev Home have very conflicting utilization metrics. Which one is the most reliable? And is my GPU even that good?

In my experience task manager doesn't report GPU utilization properly. I'd go with Adrenaline or something like HWInfo64.

 

[Daniel9923]

The RX580 is 3 generations old, released over 6 years ago. Newer games will tax it heavily.

That answers a lot

 

[RLGL]

All components are brand new except for the GPU and 2 sticks of RAM

Running mixed ram does not help the situation. Is any of the ram on the QVL? Remove the new sticks and try. Then swap them for the other two. Is there a difference?

 

[Daniel9923]

There is no difference, and I can't find the QVL for the B550-A Pro

 

[balloonshark]

If this is the correct MB here is the compatible memory page. Unfortunately their site is slow and it took forever to load the compatible ram.

B550-A PRO

Best AMD AM4 B550 ATX motherboard, lightning PCIe 4.0, lightning M.2, Extended heatsink, USB 3.2 Gen 2, M.2 heatsink, powerful overclocking, MSI PRO

www.msi.com

Edit: The above link is also loading slow. Here is the link that you can copy/paste.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B550-A-PRO/support#mem

 

[Daniel9923]

If this is the correct MB here is the compatible memory page. Unfortunately their site is slow and it took forever to load the compatible ram.

B550-A PRO

Best AMD AM4 B550 ATX motherboard, lightning PCIe 4.0, lightning M.2, Extended heatsink, USB 3.2 Gen 2, M.2 heatsink, powerful overclocking, MSI PRO

www.msi.com

Edit: The above link is also loading slow. Here is the link that you can copy/paste.

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B550-A-PRO/support#mem

I can find my RAM on the list