6700k Being Bottlenecked?

[Dirk Diggler]

While playing Far Cry 4, I'm seeing what appears to be one core (core 3) of my 6700k bottleneck my GPU (1080ti). Gsync is capping at 100fps on my X34a, and on sporadic occasion Afterburner graph shows Framerate as 80 when GPU usage is 75% and CPU core 3 is 100%.

Is this just inevitable with the game, or do I need to up my overclock (currently 4.4GHz)?

Thread title should probably say "1080ti being bottlenecked"

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Cheers, it's not that annoying really. It's the first time I've seen 100% usage on the CPU like that.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

@humbug I haven't really noticed it too much before. Do you think a 6 core CPU would make a difference for you there? I'm thinking in my case it's a single core being maxed out so another five cores wouldn't make a difference, but you're seeing it on all four cores there.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I have seen this happen with OC'ed 7700k in Battlefield benchmarks too, for couple of seconds. I wouldn't call Frostbite 3 engine unoptimised, especially in BF. Unless this is really affecting your performance I wouldn't be concerned. It is not like Farcry games go easy on the CPU.

Nah, it's fine. I just like to know why. I don't think there's a CPU on the market that would remedy this as it comes down to clock speed, IPC and optimisation.