My gpu usage is very low and im getting very low fps

[kind hornet]

Download GPU-Z and show the first page here

(Not CPU-Z. If unsure: "g"pu-z vs "c"pu-z)

Also, Device Manager > Display Adapters > what's in there?

Take a photo of the back of your PC, too.

[past surge]

Intel Core i5-12600K, Intel Core i7-12700K, or i7-10700k will work good with a 3060. The CPU you have in there will only work the best for a low end GPU like the 1050 or the 1650. If you can bump your CPU up to an i7. And also may have to eventually change your motherboard cause gigabytes is not a good brand. And if this PC is old then it's ok to OC, but if it's not old i wouldn't recommend you doing any OC on this PC at all.

@magic hull

[magic hull]

here u go

[kind hornet]

Task Manager > Performance > Memory > show the contents of Task Manager

[magic hull]

here u go

[kind hornet]

Alright. Since you mentioned Fortnite: check the game settings if they've been changed

(Post a screenshot of its in-game settings here.)

(You can verify if the game is working properly. Set everything to minimum possible and see if you get hundreds of FPS, then set everything to maximum possible including RT, and see if you get 99% usage with vsync and all frame limiters off.)

You can also check with 3DMark to confirm that the hardware is performing as expected. Get the Basic Edition, which should present itself as "Download Demo" in the Steam store page, and run Time Spy. Post the results here.

https://benchmarks.ul.com/3dmark#windows

[magic hull]

my gpu usage everything on epic settings is 90% but its not consistent it drops to 60% and then my fps drops very hard from 70 fps it drops to 30 fps

cpu usage is saying 9% but that not the case its on 60-100% rn because of epic settings

but it drops very hard

[kind hornet]

What monitoring software is it?

Monitoring software that are out of date are not able to obtain accurate CPU usage metrics in Windows 11

Also probably time to check what background programs are there. (click the upwards arrow at the bottom right corner of the screen)

[magic hull]

its from gpu tweak 3

[kind hornet]

There doesn't seem to be any actual problem

post the game settings. some games may reset settings as soon as you change video cards.

[magic hull]

idk but i know i dont want to pay for an downgrade

[magic hull]

you mean settings in fortnite?

i have my windows power plan on ultimate preformance and in nvidia control panel i have power managemenet to prefer maximum preformance

[kind hornet]

Check if it improves with them set to Balanced and Normal respectively. It's a bit counterintuitive, but sometimes High or Ultimate Performance sandbags boosting algorithms. And Power Management set to Max Performance is redundant if you are already using Reflex at On+Boost.

[magic hull]

well now its not dropping below 60 fps and its 97-80% usage

[kind hornet]

While we're at it, show me the Manage 3D Settings tab in NVIDIA Control Panel

[kind hornet]

Now, keep playing and see if anything weird happens

If it can maintain this frame rate all the time, then I'd suspect that it's just the CPU being on the slow side for some reason

especially since you are basically running normal RAM instead of XMP

[magic hull]

i can enable xmp but i will need to flash my bios because this bios version does not support xmp

[magic hull]

i did not screenshot it but i started my next game and my fps was all over the place (20-30-40-50-60) while i was on the ground i was having some extreme fps drops like from 60 fps to 10 then to 30 then to 60

and my gpu usage was like 40%-60%-90%-60%-50%

here u go my nvidia 3d settingd

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and this if u want to take a look at it

[magic hull]

see like now im on preformance mode

and its no good

i get around 200-300 fps

[past surge]

@magic hull when you upgrade your CPU to an i7 or i9 you'll be fine. The i5-f series i wouldn't recommend especially if you have a 30 series GPU.

[magic hull]

but my gpu usage isnt even that high it does not bottleneck my pc so much i have 3% bottleneck according to pc-builds website (that website is recommended by many tech nerds on youtube)

like look at this

my cpu is at 50

and my gpu at 20

[past surge]

You'll be more happier when u upgrade your CPU and you won't be having this issue

[kind hornet]

Bottleneck calculators are useless.

[kind hornet]

The overlay you are using, again, is not able to capture CPU usage correctly in Windows 11, so some of the information it has is meaningless.

[kind hornet]

Due to the way games work, as soon as one core is maxed out, everything else stops mattering. Your CPU tops out at around 4 GHz at full tilt, and the game sure looks like some kind of older game at pretty low graphics settings. You're very likely to be butting to the limits of one single core's maximum speed, so low settings won't really increase your frame rate.

If you do not want to pay for a new CPU, increase graphics settings in the relevant games to increase GPU load

[magic hull]

there has to be a way because people on youtube have 300+ fps ingame with my rig why cant i

[kind hornet]

• if the video is made before the game updated to UE5, it is invalid
• what rendering mode? (try performance mode, but this will degrade graphics much more than the presets do)
• did they mention the CPU and RAM set ups?
• remember that fake video overlays are a thing

[magic hull]

these videos have over 20k views they have 16 gb of ram and rtx 3060 and i5 10400f

top right is the fps its fortnite built in fps counter

its very very hard to be faked he has to take 10000 tries to line it up perfect

[kind hornet]

No one's playing games looking at the sky box.

If you want to get an FPS number, wait until it's pointing at the horizon.

[magic hull]

yeah but when he builds he gets 300 fps i get 200 when he looks up 500-400 i get 300-200

big difference

in game in another video he gets 200 fps

i get 110

[past surge]

Hey let me ask you this. Are you willing to spend big bucks, yes or no? And send a video of who you be watching as well.