Hello everyone,
I was running speedway (@4k) tonight and watching some metrics in hwinfo and noticed that my GPU wait time was sticking around 12-15ms. Being that I have a 9800x3d with the lid removed (63c r23 multi thread) paired with a suprim x 4090 all in a rather overkill custom loop I am wondering if this is normal? The CPU usage was hanging out around 15% and usually when I look after a solid shooter session that time average is between 1-3ms. Im pretty sure this is holding back my score in speedway? But also why in the world would I have any kind of GPU wait time in a 4k scenario with a 9800x3d? Am I dumb and this is normal during benchmarking and I just started watching it?
9800x3d with mycro direct-die pro block
X870e carbon wifi
Suprimx 4090 in alphacool core block
Two D5
480-L(top)/
360monsta(front)/x560m(basement)
Singularity distro set
V3000+
Let me know what you guys think, thanks for reading
4 Comments
Are you sure it’s not the opposite, your CPU is waiting for the GPU. You are GPU bound and given Speedway is a heavy synthetic benchmark averaging somewhere in the 100fps range it makes sense you will be waiting longer for the gpu to complete and receive another frame vs a high fps shooter title.
100fps is ~10ms so the gpu can not be drawing a frame every 2-3ms in that scenario.
Those sure are some pretty pictures, but you don’t mention what actual overclocking you’ve done to the CPU. Is it stock, or have you gone through and adjusted PBO/CO/Boost Limit? Delidding a 9800X3D and throwing more cooling at it isn’t going to give you a measurable performance difference, it’s just going to give you more overclocking headroom. If you skip the overclocking step, you can pretty much just expect stock performance.
Where does HWiNFO display wait times?
You’re trippin’