radeon 7700xt horrible performance despite what should be a correct configuration

[prime surge]

Heya! I am having a really weird issue where my GPU outmatches my CPU by magnitudes but i am still heavily GPU limited?
In CS2 i am getting ~50fps with 100% GPU usage and 30% CPU usage despite running a 7700xt alongside a AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G with Radeon Graphics (12) @ 4.000GHz

(The GPU is reportedly capable of running the game at upwards of 200fps)

i have verified that its running on dedicated via nvtop
The GPU also clocks up to >2500Mhz while gaming

some command outputs:

vulkaninfo | grep driverName                                                                         0.102s 01:01
        driverName                                           = radv
        driverName                                           = radv

[prime surge]

Using nvtop i am noticing that plasma-wayland is spiking at 30% GPU usage at times

[mental magnet]

which cpu do u have?

[prime surge]

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

[mental magnet]

could I see the output of pacman -Q | grep -i lib32

[prime surge]

The CPU is definitely not the bottleneck cause its running at 30% util

[mental magnet]

pacman -Q | grep -e vulkan -e mesa as well

[prime surge]

amd-vulkan-prefixes 2-1
lib32-mesa 1:25.3.5-1
lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.341.0-1
lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers 1:25.3.5-1
lib32-vulkan-radeon 1:25.3.5-1
mesa 1:25.3.5-1
mesa-utils 9.0.0-7
vulkan-headers 1:1.4.341.0-1
vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.341.0-1
vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers 1:25.3.5-1
vulkan-mesa-layers 1:25.3.5-1
vulkan-radeon 1:25.3.5-1
vulkan-tools 1.4.341.0-1
vulkan-validation-layers 1.4.341.0-1

[mental magnet]

does this only happen with cs2?

[prime surge]

Nope happens in general

I thought it was my CPU

But now i checked my utilization during games and am noticing that my CPU is never really pushed

[mental magnet]

could u try with something other than plasma?

[prime surge]

Same issue on gnome

Actually considerably worse fps on gnome

~10%

But much lower CPU utilization

Down to 20%

[mental magnet]

thats not rly normal

they shouldnt differ by that much

hmm

ngl idk whats going on here

can u send a journal?

[prime surge]

What exactly

[mental magnet]

journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

[prime surge]

From boot or?

[mental magnet]

?

just run that command and paste the link here

[prime surge]

I mean do you want me to run cs2 before running journalctl

[mental magnet]

yeah, can u go on plasma tho?

since thats your main environment

[prime surge]

http://0x0.st/Pu2n.txt

[mental magnet]

what are these amdgpu.bapm=0 amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.aspm=0 pcie_aspm=off

[prime surge]

Good question...

[mental magnet]

did u add them yourself?

[prime surge]

I remember adding them while debugging a crash

[mental magnet]

okay so they seem to be related to power management

could you try out a different kernel pls? @prime surge

also discord is spamming your journal like crazy

and uhh be careful cuz the journal has your email

[prime surge]

:D we love discord

[mental magnet]

try out just regular linux

[prime surge]

already did and didnt get any better results

[mental magnet]

btw u using gamemode right?

[prime surge]

Yep

Gamemode actually threw a lot of errors in the journal

[prime surge]

Also that was almost certainly related to my last GPU then

[mental magnet]

u should try without it

[prime surge]

I will do that tomorrow cause its approaching 3am here

[mental magnet]

oki

[prime surge]

cpu usage of 25%
gpu usage of 60%
fps of 33

name of display: :1
display: :1  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: AMD (0x1002)
    Device: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (radeonsi, navi32, LLVM 21.1.6, DRM 3.64, 6.18.9-arch1-2) (0x747e)
    Version: 25.3.5
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 12288MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.6
    Max compat profile version: 4.6
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
    VBO free memory - total: 12011 MB, largest block: 12011 MB
    VBO free aux. memory - total: 15645 MB, largest block: 15645 MB
    Texture free memory - total: 12011 MB, largest block: 12011 MB
    Texture free aux. memory - total: 15645 MB, largest block: 15645 MB
    Renderbuffer free memory - total: 12011 MB, largest block: 12011 MB
    Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 15645 MB, largest block: 15645 MB
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
    Dedicated video memory: 12288 MB
    Total available memory: 27975 MB
    Currently available dedicated video memory: 12011 MB
OpenGL vendor string: AMD
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT (radeonsi, navi32, LLVM 21.1.6, DRM 3.64, 6.18.9-arch1-2)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.3.5-arch1.1
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.3.5-arch1.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.3.5-arch1.1
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

[mental magnet]

no idea whats going on

sorry

[prime surge]

i just realized its running PCIe gen3

[prime surge]

alright

looked deeper into it