Is Cities: Skylines CPU or GPU intense

ItsMeRachata · February 2, 2020

I build a new city in Cities: Skylines

and I open Task Manager. Most of the people say Cities: Skylines is CPU intense,

but when I look at the Task Manager. It shows that it’s 56% usage for CPU and 99% for GPU. My CPU is AMD Athlon X4 845 and my GPU is Asus GT 730

PopsicleHustler · February 2, 2020

Normally Skylines destroys any type of CPU you throw at it. But since your setup is so dated, it can't utilize much of the CPU whet GPU can barely keep up.

Anomnomnomaly · February 2, 2020

I play a lot of Cities Skylines, and have a lot of mods installed... and yes it does hit your CPU hard... at 1440p max settings, AA on and a 100k population city. I'm getting 25fps on a 5700XT and a 2600X with 32GB 3200mhz ram

It's still very playable though, because you don't need high FPS, and that frame rate changes depending on what you are looking at.

It's a great game, endless hours of fun... check out 'Biffa Plays Indie Games' on youtube, he's got so many great videos and tips on how to build properly and which mods to install.

Here's a shot across NomNom Bay in my current city.

ShureBob · February 2, 2020

I think it is very CPU intensive i upgraded from a gtx 970 to 5700xt and it didnt really affect the game at all but the cpu is always almost maxed at 100% usually when i get up to about 300-400k population it starts to become unplayable.