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4690k with RTX 2080

Aryus
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Hey all,

 

So I bought myself an Asus Strix RTX 2080 recently and I've noticed some stuttering in some games. In something like Vermintide 2 for example I keep getting these 50ms spikes and such, and likewise something like Shadow of Mordor it will run at 100 fps but then drop and stutter to like 50 ms here and there. However, World of Warcraft seems to be working fine and Warhammer 2 Total War also seems to be handling frame times well as well.

 

I am aware that my CPU isn't really up to par for such a powerful GPU but I was thinking about upgrading soon either way. I just wanted to see if its likely that I'm getting these drops and stutters because of a CPU bottleneck and not something else. Also, I should mention that I had a 1080 ti at one point and I had a similar experience when I had that installed, but I had assumed something was wrong with the card so I returned it. Running on a 970 seems to work differently but I suppose that card won't bottleneck the system. Since both the 1080 ti and the 2080 are running similarly I would say, I guess that would mean that I am being bottlenecked right?

 

I should also mention that I am playing everything in 1440p on this, but I think its still a bottleneck either way on this CPU, would like some confirmation on this if possible.

 

My full specs are:

i5 4690k (not overclocked)

Asus Strix RTX 2080

Gigabyte Z97x Gaming 7 motherboard

2 Samsung SSDs

1 Western Digital terabyte hard drive

Corsair RM 750 power supply

16 gig 2400 DDR3 Ram

 

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

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Why don't you overclock the CPU?  A good OC on it and it'll be fine for 1440p..  I ran similar with my 1080Ti and Ultrawide 1440p monitor.

 

 

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Likely a CPU bottleneck indeed.

Why don't you try to overlock your 4690k? its a shame its sitting in a Z97 board without overclock in the first place! ? 

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I did try OC the CPU when I had the 1080 ti, tried to bump it up to 4 Ghz but it acted very strangely and in fact caused a ridiculous amount of stuttering. I haven't tried again with the 2080, maybe I should try it again and see how it functions.

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Hmm, maybe I didn't do it right then. I'll have to look into it and see about trying it again. 

Seems likely this issue is related to CPU bottlenecking then.

 

Thanks for your help.

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21 minutes ago, Ansuex said:

Sounds like a unstable overclock

Do you even read ?

 

30 minutes ago, Aryus said:

i5 4690k (not overclocked)

 

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Just now, givingtnt said:

Do you even read ?

 

 

You might want to as well...  :)

22 minutes ago, Aryus said:

I did try OC the CPU when I had the 1080 ti, tried to bump it up to 4 Ghz but it acted very strangely and in fact caused a ridiculous amount of stuttering. I haven't tried again with the 2080, maybe I should try it again and see how it functions.

 

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58 minutes ago, Aryus said:

Hey all,

 

So I bought myself an Asus Strix RTX 2080 recently and I've noticed some stuttering in some games. In something like Vermintide 2 for example I keep getting these 50ms spikes and such, and likewise something like Shadow of Mordor it will run at 100 fps but then drop and stutter to like 50 ms here and there. However, World of Warcraft seems to be working fine and Warhammer 2 Total War also seems to be handling frame times well as well.

You can test this by monitoring your CPU usage, if your CPU is at 90%+ all the time then you might encounter stuttering, a way to solve this is to enable Vsync or frame limiter and not let the card go pushing as much frames as it can, because more FPS means more CPU usage.

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Hey guys did some testing, I can confirm it's a cpu bottleneck. I capped frame rate to 60 fps on vermintide 2 and shadow of mordor and they worked fine. Cpu can't handle high frames with such a powerful gpu. 

 

At least now I know, thanks for all your answers. 

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Ayrus, if you join the LTT community on Discord im sure someone is willing to help you get a stable overclock on your 4690k to get rid of that potential bottleneck :)

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