Question Random Games maxing out a RTX 2070 Super?

[OG_Travisnator]

So I just did my first pc build and so far so good. I'm currently running a Rtx 2070 super, and Ryzen 7 3700x . The first large game i played on the pc was "The Witcher 3" on ultra settings, i had to issues and the game only used 30-50% of my gpu. so low and behold my friend wants to play ark, so i go and download it from my steam library and load in. I Hear my fans turn up and despite having zero frame issues in game i check and my gpu is at 99%. now to clarify the game was on medium graphics and it was the gb's on the gpu that were maxed out but a stat called 3d. I am not very privy on all of this so i can only assume that's regarding 3d assets/ rendering? this is not the first game to do this though. there was an older shooter where once i set my graphics to high it was using 93% of the 3d stat aswell once again it was only using like 3.5gb of gpu memory yet it said it was using so much percentage wise. i haven't played around with the control panel yet other than to turn the power preference to performance, the only thing i could thin of is its something i have turned on in the control pannel. please any help would be greatly appreciated, i am new to pc gaming so i really wanna figure out how to fix this.

Thanks in advance,

-travis

 

[SteveGrabowski]

If you're playing Witcher 3 at 1080p on a 2070 Super that is complete overkill. I could play that game at 1080p around 80 fps most of the time on a GTX 970 (with hairworks turned off) and a 2070 Super is about 2.5x the gpu a 970 is, so no surprise if your system is hitting cpu limits way before gpu limits in that game. I don't know much about Ark other than it used to have a reputation for horrible optimization and just not running well on anything, but I haven't paid much attention to it since the Pascal generation.

Also you want your gpu at 99% usage. It's ideal.

 

[psolord]

Percentage usage without clocks does not say the whole truth.

You may be getting 93% @900mhz clocks. If the clocks would be 1950mhz however, you would be seeing 45% usage or something.


The total board power is a more accurate metric to see what kind of stress the card is really under. If the specific game does not use Max clocks that is.

Also no, you don't need 99% load to be ok during vsynced gameplay. You need steady performance regardless of your load.

You need 99% load at Max clocks if you are benchmarking something and that in order to not be cpu limited.

 

[psolord]

And i just tagged a guy named 900mhz, lol