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I'm not new to folding here, I am new to actually trouble shooting this and I have a question.

I recently upgraded my system to something a tad bit more powerful and my score daily has went up, but looking at my cpu and gpu utilization my cpu is maxing out at 100% as expected.

However my GPU usage is very very low.

I'm now currently running:
X570 Gigabyte Xtreme mainboard
Ryzen 9 3950x cpu
64gb G.skill Trident Neo Z @ 3600 cas16
2080 ti Aorus Waterforce Xtreme gpu



Windows is showing my GPU utilization at 5%, and no there's no thermal throttling or over heating happening with the card, I can game on it just fine at 4k without issues.
Am I missing an obvious setting here or is such low GPU utilization normal for folding at home (or is there some settings that I can change to because to leverage my gpu more?)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the folding support forum.

Windows Task Manager is the wrong tool to see GPU utilization as used by the folding client or most other apps using a GPU for calculations instead of display. You need to use a tool like GPU-Z. There are other tools that people may also suggest.

Acturally, this should be considered a bug in the philosophical thinking of Windows. Microsoft does not consider the GPU as part of the system except as a 3rd party component added to "their" system whose sole purpose is to display the MS Desktop. GPU-Z is an excellent suggestion, as are several of the diagnostic utilities provided by the GPU suppliers which read data from the sensors on the GPU.

Does anybody have a suggestion about how to document this case where OpenCL (or similar programming tools) use the GPU as a computing device (aka Stream Computing)? It's certainly misleading for them to report that (from the MS perspective) only 5% of the GPU is being used ... even though the shaders on the GPU are 99% busy.

Ahh.. ok so just windows reporting wrong.

looks a little more accurate I thought I was doing something wrong here lol
Appreciated and thank you for the quick responses
Cheers

No, it works like it should.
if you click on Windows taskmanager '3D', you'll notice there are a bunch of other fields you can see.
'compute 0', 'cuda' are but a few that could show you your GPU utilization.
'3D' is showing what your desktop uses from your GPU.

MeeLee wrote:No, it works like it should.
if you click on Windows taskmanager '3D', you'll notice there are a bunch of other fields you can see.
'compute 0', 'cuda' are but a few that could show you your GPU utilization.
'3D' is showing what your desktop uses from your GPU.

I'm running Windows 7 and I can't find a button called "3D" What is the minimum version of Microsoft's Task Manager that has a '3d' option?

I don't remember Windows 7 task manager being able to monitor GPU load ... I think this possibility appeared with Windows 10 ...

bruce wrote:

MeeLee wrote:No, it works like it should.
if you click on Windows taskmanager '3D', you'll notice there are a bunch of other fields you can see.
'compute 0', 'cuda' are but a few that could show you your GPU utilization.
'3D' is showing what your desktop uses from your GPU.

I'm running Windows 7 and I can't find a button called "3D" What is the minimum version of Microsoft's Task Manager that has a '3d' option?

Windows 10, started from the creators update (April 2017).
You'll probably receive MS bugging popups soon, telling you your version is no longer supported.

For earlier versions, I would check if 'system monitor' can display GPU activity.
It's built in windows 10 and goes back to win 2000, possibly 98 or 95 even.

If this doesn't help, you can use GPUZ or HWmonitor

As far as I know win 7 sys Monitor can only show the “3D usage” of GPUs, not compute.

My suggestion is MSI afterburner. It’s build for OCing GPUs, but as long as you don’t touch the sliders your GPUs will stay at stock. BUT the build in monitoring tools are really nice. It can Show even more than GPUz, is easy to use and can also be used for login this data. That’s very handy when trying out new cores etc and when OCing/Undervolting for folding. It also includes CPU monitoring

GPUz shows more than MSI's afterburner.
Don't forget they have a sub menu with monitoring statistics:

Not windows wrong, it were you check in the wrong item.

Not '3D', is 'Cuda' !

Depending on the Windows version, drivers version, GPU model, ... the required item could be either Cuda, Compute_0 or Compute_1 ...