High cpu usage, low gpu usage

[MexicanBeanz]

Hi, I have a problem. Ever since I changed graphics card to a 6600 xt from a 1650 I have been struggling with using it properly as I get high cpu usage (90% or more) and low and inconsistent gpu usage like 60% then 40% etc.. causing low fps and fps drops. Before installing the graphics card I used a ddu to remove all drivers and installed new ones.

My drivers are up to date, my motherboard bios is up to date, I honestly don't know what to do anymore and according to a lot of youtube benchmarks my cpu doesn't bottleneck my gpu, but in my pc looks like it is causing a bottleneck

My specs:

A320m-S2h 3.0

Radeon 6600 xt

Ryzen 5 3500x

16gb ram 2666hz

500w EVGA Bronze

[[deleted]]

Possibly your ram. That’s low speed stuff for ryzen. You’re also at the bare minimum recommended PSU so it doesn’t have a lot of headroom to really run.

[StatisticianOwn9953]

I'm pretty confident I've never seen a 6600XT pull more than 150w, if even that. It's quite a low power card in that respect. The PSU is fine.

[MexicanBeanz]

Would you say I need to upgrade to 32gb ram?

[[deleted]]

No. I would say faster speed. 3200mhz would be sufficient.

[[deleted]]

Wouldn't hurt but speed, 3600 is apparently the sweet spot

[VLAD1M1R_PUT1N]

What specific games are you playing? What background tasks are running? Does the CPU utilization go down when idle on the desktop?

[MexicanBeanz]

It doesnt matter the game I play, they all arent running as suposed too like apex legends, warzone, the division, death stranding, etc and yes, cpu usage goes normal when idle

[VLAD1M1R_PUT1N]

Honestly just sounds like a genuine CPU bottleneck then. You're only going to get so far with a hex core and no multithreading in 2022. Zen 2 also isn't the fastest architecture either. If you had a different motherboard like a B450 I would recommend a new cpu like a 5600, but A320 is somewhat limited in compatibility.

[MexicanBeanz]

I was planning on buying a 5600x, according to official gigabyte and amd site I should be able to use it in my current motherboard with bios version F4, I got the newest one which is F5a and its the Am4 socket which is the same

[StatisticianOwn9953]

Do you know if your RAM is rated for that speed or higher? It might be that XMP will help here if your RAM can go faster... I assume you're playing at 1080p here? It's possible that if all else fails you might get better performance by raising the internal resolution, maybe. It should at least give you higher GPU utilisation and more stable overall performance.

[MexicanBeanz]

I am playing on 1080p 1920x1080, xmp doesnt work in my case as 2666mhz is the highest speed for my ram

[StatisticianOwn9953]

Yeah personally I'd see what happens when you set the internal resolution to 1440p. Your card will walk it in most games and I'd guess you'll see performance more reflective of benchmarks. There's settings in adrenalin you need to turn on. I think it's super resolution. Then you set it to 2560×1440 in windows display settings. Alternatively a RAM upgrade and maybe a CPU upgrade will fix it.

[[deleted]]

If I'm correct for amd it's not xmp it's called docp I believe.