CPU Bottleneck Question

[Smok3y]

Was playing Remnant last night using an xbox pad. I pressed the xbox button in the middle of the pad and the game centre thing came up on windows 10.

It showed CPU and GPU usage which was 82ish and 93ish respectively. Does that mean my CPU isn't actually bottlenecking my GPU?

 

[robfosters]

What’s the CPU and GPU?

 

[Smok3y]

I5 6600k @ 4ghz and RTX 2060

 

[Threepwood]

Was playing Remnant last night using an xbox pad. I pressed the xbox button in the middle of the pad and the game centre thing came up on windows 10.

It showed CPU and GPU usage which was 82ish and 93ish respectively. Does that mean my CPU isn't actually bottlenecking my GPU?

No, the cpu would be bottleknecking if the cpu was at 100%

 

[Smok3y]

Is there anything I can run specific to see if it goes any higher? My system is 99% for gaming anyway. I have games like Battlefield, Pubg, mainly FPS stuff.

 

[youdsy]

No, the cpu would be bottleknecking if the cpu was at 100%

Not necessarily.

Depends on core count and IPC. If he had a bulldozer CPU it would struggle to get to 100% usage but the GPU would be held back by the CPU no doubt.

 

[Threepwood]

Not necessarily.

Depends on core count and IPC. If he had a bulldozer CPU it would struggle to get to 100% usage but the GPU would be held back by the CPU no doubt.

He doesnt have bulldozer, so why bring that up?

 

[youdsy]

He doesnt have bulldozer, so why bring that up?

my point is that that you dont need 100% utilization to be CPU bound

 

[Threepwood]

my point is that that you dont need 100% utilization to be CPU bound

But how is that relevant to the question when he has a cpu that will go to 100%?

 

[TrM]

I think bottleknecking is getting out of hand and people worrie way to much about it.

Balance to a pc system is key to everything you are rocking a i5 6600k and. 2060 both now whilst I personally think quad core cpu’s will struggle in the future that day isn’t here yet.

There other key parts to the gaming the monitor is also key. What Rez and what FPS target are you trying to reach ? What In game setting do you enabled are you making out the game or playing at lower setting to try and hit 120/140fps.

The tiger tower that a lot of people really overlook what software do u have ticking in the background are u using Nvidia overlay and Xbox game bar, antivirus is steam origin uplay Bethesda epic store, Corsair Icue for your lovely rgb and motherboard software like ai suite and most important how many chrome tabs u running

I think those things impact a quad core i5 in gaming more then it bottlrknecking a mid range gpu