Z440 gpu low usage

[twomad]

hi everyone I am using a z440 and I am getting low graphics card usage in games I have tried different graphics cards fully uninstalling old drivers with DDU and installing a fresh windows but nothing seems to fix it.

The temperature also seems to be fine on GPU and CPU and benchmarks use the GPU just fine any help is appreciated thanks.

my specs

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1650 v4 @ 3.60GHz hyper threading and turbo boost 3.0 on

RAM: 16.0 GB 2133 MHZ

Storage: NVME: Samsung SSD 970: connected with PCIE to NVME

Graphics card: ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 TUF gaming: connected with 2x 6pin to 8pin cables

Display (1): AOC 24G2W1G4
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Refresh rate: 144 Hz

[NonSequitur777]

@twomad,

Welcome to our HP Community forum!

An HP Z440 Workstation was also one of my upgrade projects, with gaming in mind.

I would recommend applying the steps shown in this instructional YouTube video, as it helped me quite a bit: 🔧 Get MORE FPS in ALL GAMES! *ADVANCED* Windows Settings for performance.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[twomad]

thank you for your answer I have applied any relevant changes from the video below some I already had enabled since I have had to optimize computers before but my issue still persists I may try factory reset my bios but if you have any more ideas I would greatly appreciate it 

thanks

[NonSequitur777]

@twomad,

Your issue is quite common amongst HP Z440 Workstation Users -for example, the best scoring Z440 according to Userbenchmark, shows a similar issue with just a 13th percentile utilization ("Performing below potential") of an RTX 3090: HP Z440 Workstation Performance Results - UserBenchmark.

I was able to get a respectable 74th percentile utilization using an RTX 3080 in my system: HP Z440 Workstation Performance Results - UserBenchmark.  In order to get there, I used the freeware Asus Tweak III GPU tuning software tool: GPU Tweak III | Ultimate GPU Tuning Tool | ASUS.

Of course, results may vary, and you may not see the same GPU improvement as I did.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[twomad]

thank you for your continued help how did you use the program to help your GPU? this is my first computer so I apologize if its obvious

[NonSequitur777]

@twomad,

Tweak III is a graphics card overclock/optimization tool specifically for Nvidia cards.  By 'tweaking' the GPU's settings, you can get better performance out of it: 3 Easy Ways to Overclock a GPU | ASUS GPU Tweak III.

Try it, and if it works for you keep it, or else uninstall it.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777