RX5700XT Usage stays around 84%

[Damic]

Hi everybody,
recently I started folding (normally I only do RC5-72 or OGR and once a year a stampede with the Dutch Power Cows) but I came to a weird "bug", the gpu stays around 80% usage (currently it's hovering around 82%) and Task manager in windows 10 (compute_1) show 84%. If I run the dnet gpu client, the usage jumps directly to 98% and stays there until the wu is done then it jumps down and directly back up to 98%.
I tested an older card (HD7990) to and no problems there, the 2 core's jumping directly to 98%.

Its like something is holding it around 80% usage.

I've tried setting the core-priority to normal and high but no change also priority changed to normal and high but no change

Anybody knows what's going on here?

[s]*I've got some screenshots but can't post them yet[/s]

Edit: after approved topic

I've got the latest drivers for the gpu: Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.2.2 Recommended

[foldy]

Some FAH work units are too small to fill all shaders of RX5700XT. So you just need to wait for other bigger work units.

[JimboPalmer]

task manager shows CPU utilization, not GPU. GPU-Z can show GPU utilization.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

But, if you GPU is working, then one CPU core is reserved to help, so you would have 50% CPU plus whatever it took to help.

This thread should help you show us the log, so we can make better guesses than I just did.
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=26036

[Damic]

Jimbo: Taskman in windows 10 do show GPU compute/3d/encode/decode/... utilisation https://i.imgur.com/zZlsIBd.png

Anyway the screenshots:
HD7990: https://i.imgur.com/YbjD9Dl.png
RX5700XT: https://i.imgur.com/vw1Mrt2.png

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Edit 2: jeeej larger wu's now it goes to 90% pffff

[toTOW]

Yes, AMD GPUs are very sensitive to the number of atoms in projects. Bigger ones work way better and p11737 is quite small.

[foldy]

The assignment servers are not updated yet with new rules for AMD RX5700XT and similar high shader AMD GPUs.

As user your only option would be to run 2 work units on the same GPU to increase usage.

[Damic]

Ow ok, then we just need to wait until they are updated then.

[toTOW]

Running two WU on GPU at the same time is often a bad idea on FAH ...