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Clarifiante

i have a 980ti gigabyte wf (non-g1) with no OC but my usage reaches 99% when playing world of warcraft (yes i know overkill, i just sign on to get dat free gold). i never really noticed the usage before. is this sort of usage dangerous or normal?

 

i have everything set to ultra and msaa 2x @ 1440p 144hz

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It's normal. It means that you GPU s actually being used.

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is your fps normal?

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you're using everything the gpu has in store. why hold back something as powerful as the 980ti? 

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Just now, Enderman said:

is your fps normal?

yeah fps floats between 90-144 depending on where i am

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7 minutes ago, Clarifiante said:

i have a 980ti gigabyte wf (non-g1) with no OC but my usage reaches 99% when playing world of warcraft (yes i know overkill, i just sign on to get dat free gold). i never really noticed the usage before. is this sort of usage dangerous or normal?

 

i have everything set to ultra and msaa 2x @ 1440p 144hz

yeah its normal

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Means the game is coding correctly unlike the majority of console ports which sit at 50 fps and 67% GPU usage ..

 

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17 minutes ago, Clarifiante said:

i have a 980ti gigabyte wf (non-g1) with no OC but my usage reaches 99% when playing world of warcraft (yes i know overkill, i just sign on to get dat free gold). i never really noticed the usage before. is this sort of usage dangerous or normal?

 

i have everything set to ultra and msaa 2x @ 1440p 144hz

My problem is that my gpu don't reach 99% load x) In Gta v at 1080p it's around 70-85% load and i get alot of framedrops. And it is a Gigabyte G1 980 ti.

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59 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

Means the game is coding correctly unlike the majority of console ports which sit at 50 fps and 67% GPU usage ..

My 980 ti sit at around 60-85 gpu usage in Gta v, 1080p. Does it mean that gta v isn't well coded? Or something wrong with my gpu?

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

My 980 ti sit at around 60-85 gpu usage in Gta v, 1080p. Does it mean that gta v isn't well coded? Or something wrong with my gpu?

Have you checked your cpu usage because for example in WoW in world i have about 60% CPU usage in my i5 6600k and 100% GPU usage in my r9 fury. During raids my GPU usage drops to 80% and CPU usage goes to 100% during that time my framerate drops a lot to around 30-50 fps from normal 100-150 fps. 1080 p needs more from your CPU than 1440p or 4k because it needs more draw calls for your GPU. If your CPU is 100% when playing GTAV then its bottlenecking. You can overclock to try to remove bottlenecking but for me it's time for cpu upgrade because 4 cores is not enough for video editing and i get too much stutter while gaming when i have too many programs running in the background.

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17 minutes ago, Strom said:

Have you checked your cpu usage because for example in WoW in world i have about 60% CPU usage in my i5 6600k and 100% GPU usage in my r9 fury. During raids my GPU usage drops to 80% and CPU usage goes to 100% during that time my framerate drops a lot to around 30-50 fps from normal 100-150 fps. 1080 p needs more from your CPU than 1440p or 4k because it needs more draw calls for your GPU. If your CPU is 100% when playing GTAV then its bottlenecking. You can overclock to try to remove bottlenecking but for me it's time for cpu upgrade because 4 cores is not enough for video editing and i get too much stutter while gaming when i have too many programs running in the background.

God, it annoys me how shit WoW runs in raids. 

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27 minutes ago, Strom said:

Have you checked your cpu usage because for example in WoW in world i have about 60% CPU usage in my i5 6600k and 100% GPU usage in my r9 fury. During raids my GPU usage drops to 80% and CPU usage goes to 100% during that time my framerate drops a lot to around 30-50 fps from normal 100-150 fps. 1080 p needs more from your CPU than 1440p or 4k because it needs more draw calls for your GPU. If your CPU is 100% when playing GTAV then its bottlenecking. You can overclock to try to remove bottlenecking but for me it's time for cpu upgrade because 4 cores is not enough for video editing and i get too much stutter while gaming when i have too many programs running in the background.

CPU usage is around 80-99% when GPU is around 70-80. Is it bottlenecking? I also have the 6600k 

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

ACPU usage is around 80-99% when GPU is around 70-80. Is it bottlenecking? I also have the 6600k 

Are you using vsync? Because there is no way a 6th gen top of the line i5 will bottleneck a 980 Ti, especially on a game as easy to run as WoW. People throw the word 'bottleneck' around like it's fashionable. Most likely it's due to the nature of the game.

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8 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:
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3 minutes ago, Dogeystyle said:

Are you using vsync? Because there is no way a 6th gen top of the line i5 will bottleneck a 980 Ti, especially on a game as easy to run as WoW. People throw the word 'bottleneck' around like it's fashionable. Most likely it's due to the nature of the game.

Sorry this was about Gta V

 

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28 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

 

Ah. My point stands. Bottlenecking is when your CPU is so slow that it holds the GPU back. For example, if you tie a 980 Ti to a Core Duo from 2009, you will see bottlenecking. That is not happening in your case. What is happening is that you're playing a very intensive game (GTA V) resulting in your CPU simply doing what it's supposed to do.

 

 

Using GTA V as an example, let's do a case study.

 

Have a look at this graph, especially focus on the 4790K (2015, 4.4 GHz, 8 threads, Haswell) vs the i5 3570k (2013, 3.5 GHz, 4 Threads, Ivy Bridge)

 

 

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The difference in average frames is nothing. Zero. There is no average difference in frames even when you take a Titan X and a three year old mid-range CPU vs a Haswell which turbos to 4.4 GHz.

 

The difference in minimum framerate is where the i7 is better than an i5, which is the way it's supposed to be since minimum framerate is more CPU reliant. And an i7 can simply do more calculations than an i5.  Even then, the difference is 4 frames per second. Four fps. 

 

Let's take it into 4k resolution to even more closely examine the difference in GPU bound scenarios...

 

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The difference between 4 core - 3570k and an 8-core 4790k in a totally GPU bound environment? Practically nothing, hence there must be no bottlenecking.

 

Conclusion: Will you see bottlenecking in games with your Skylake i5 and a 980 Ti? No.

 

But will there be a performance difference between an i5 and an i7 in totally CPU reliant scenarios? Yes. Obviously. That's why an i7 is more expensive.

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2 minutes ago, Dogeystyle said:

Ah. My point stands. Bottlenecking is when your CPU is so slow that it holds the GPU back. For example, if you tie a 980 Ti to a Core Duo from 2009, you will see bottlenecking. That is not happening in your case. What is happening is that you're playing a very intensive game (GTA V) resulting in your CPU simply doing what it's supposed to do.

 

 

Using GTA V as an example, let's do a case study.

 

Have a look at this graph, especially focus on the 4790K (2015, 4.4 GHz, 8 threads, Haswell) vs the i5 3570k (2013, 3.5 GHz, 4 Threads, Ivy Bridge)

 

 

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gta-v-cpu-1080tx-vh

 

The difference in average frames is nothing. Zero. There is no average difference in frames even when you take a Titan X and a three year old mid-range CPU vs a Haswell which turbos to 4.4 GHz.

 

The difference in minimum framerate is where the i7 is better than an i5, which is the way it's supposed to be since minimum framerate is more CPU reliant. And an i7 can simply do more calculations than an i5.  Even then, the difference is 4 frames per second. Four fps. 

 

Let's take it into 4k resolution to even more closely examine the difference in GPU bound scenarios...

 

  Reveal hidden contents

gta-v-cpu-4k-vh.jpg

 

The difference between 4 core - 3570k and an 8-core 4790k in a totally GPU bound environment? Practically nothing. 

 

Conclusion: Will you see bottlenecking in games with your Skylake i5 and a 980 Ti? No.

 

But will there be a performance difference between an i5 and an i7 in totally CPU reliant scenarios? Yes. Obviously. That's why an i7 is more expensive.

Yeah i understand. Now when i maxed almost everthing in Gta V 1080p, the gpu usage is around 80-99% and cpu 70-85%. But i still get the random framedrops to around 50 in the city like i did before when the settings were a little bit lower. So i don't know what's up with that.

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Just now, Leo_Dahlin said:

Yeah i understand. Now when i maxed almost everthing in Gta V 1080p, the gpu usage is around 80-99% and cpu 70-85%. But i still get the random framedrops to around 50 in the city like i did before when the settings were a little bit lower. So i don't know what's up with that.

Ah. Everyone gets that in GTA traffic, and especially in grass. My buddy gets it with a 5820k and so do I with a 4790k. We always comment on the way our frames tank whenever we do something in the forest.  It's simply the way the engine is when you turn all the eye candy up.

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If u want to stop it for whatever reason then turn on v sync if you haven't already

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1 minute ago, Dogeystyle said:

Ah. Everyone gets that in GTA traffic, and especially in grass. My buddy gets it with a 5820k and so do I with a 4790k. We always comment on the way our frames tank whenever we do something in the forest.  It's simply the way the engine is when you turn all the eye candy up.

Not everytime in traffic, just some places in city. And of course in grass.

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1 minute ago, adamsmith3424 said:

If u want to stop it for whatever reason then turn on v sync if you haven't already

That makes it worse for me. Evertime it drops around 5 frames the screen freezes for half a sec.

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

That makes it worse for me. Evertime it drops around 5 frames the screen freezes for half a sec.

This seems to be another part of your system causing problems. Can you try to safely update your motherboard BIOS?

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Yea your good with that 99% unless you see smoke coming out of your case.

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15 minutes ago, Dogeystyle said:

 

This seems to be another part of your system causing problems. Can you try to safely update your motherboard BIOS?

How? I recently replaced my 2 months old MSI Z170A M5 mobo because it died. So i got a new one about 1 week ago.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

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