High Power draw for RDR2 on PC

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draglord

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I recently started playing RDR2 on PC and i noticed that it draws, on an average, 240W. Can go as high as 270W.

But Forza Horizon 5 draws at max 120W.

Can anyone tell me why that might be? I doubt that RDR2 is not optimized.

VRAM consumtion for RDR2 is 5 Gigs and for FH5 is 8.5 gigs.

Thanks
 
Can't say for sure without knowing PC & monitor specs but RDR2 is both CPU and GPU heavy.

That's not the case for FH5. It's pretty chill on CPU and if you have a fast enough GPU and have capped the framerate, it would pull less power.
 
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draglord said:
I5 11400f
4080 super
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FH5 is CPU bottlenecked, as simple as that. So 4080S has relative low usage, resulting in overall low power draw. It is anyways not a CPU heavy game as said earlier, but single core performance matters a lot for gaming.

RDR2 won't hit CPU bottleneck as easily & is heavier on the CPU. So overall power draw of CPU & GPU will be higher.

Honestly, your system is way too imbalanced, even for 1440p or 4K. It is weaker for gaming than the R5 5600 shown below. I hope you are considering upgrading CPU to at least R5 7600 in future.

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Yes i realise that my system is bottlenecked but it's mostly a machine learning rig with couple of 3090s attached with x1 risers... Since that itself is a bottleneck i didn't need a very fast cpu.
 
draglord said:
Yes i realise that my system is bottlenecked but it's mostly a machine learning rig with couple of 3090s attached with x1 risers... Since that itself is a bottleneck i didn't need a very fast cpu.
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On x1 riser u will definitely be bottlenecked afaik.
Plug gpu directly on x16 slot for full speed.
 
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