Where is the bottleneck?

[Malymole]

Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 7 A715-72g Laptop, and it has an Intel core i5 8300H processor, a GeForce GTX 1050 (mobile) graphics card with 4gb DDR5 Memory, 20GB DDR4 2666MHz Ram (16gb + 4gb) [IK this isnt ideal to make use of dual channel], a 1TB MX500 SSD + 16GB Optane, and a 60Hz IPS Monitor (which may not be ideal for my intended use).

 

My intended use for this laptop is gaming, and for doing some work (mostly gaming ). So, back to the question, where is the bottleneck in this setup, and by how much is it limiting the potential? Thanks in advance for your replies :)

[boggy77]

bottlenecks will depend on the applications itself. some games will be limited by the cpu, some by the gpu. the specs of your laptop are pretty balanced, so I wouldn't say there is a real bottleneck anywhere. and it's not like you can upgrade anything apart from ram and storage, it's a laptop

[Malymole]

what about gta 5 on highest settings?

[blitzduck]

3 minutes ago, Malymole said:

what about gta 5 on highest settings?

ambitious

[Malymole]

2 minutes ago, blitzduck said:

ambitious

well I already tried and it seems to run fine, but I'm just wondering whether there's any major limiting factor

[Tamesh16]

Just now, Malymole said:

well I already tried and it seems to run fine, but I'm just wondering whether there's any major limiting factor

Lol, my 1070 struggles a bit with 1080p 120 fps gta v and thats a 7 year old game, thats what i think he meant by ambitious, 

but i found it to be heavily cpu intensive for some reason

[Malymole]

2 minutes ago, Tamesh16 said:

Lol, my 1070 struggles a bit with 1080p 120 fps gta v and thats a 7 year old game, thats what i think he meant by ambitious, 

but i found it to be heavily cpu intensive for some reason

ok, thanks!

[.Apex.]

15 minutes ago, Malymole said:

My intended use for this laptop is gaming, and for doing some work (mostly gaming ). So, back to the question, where is the bottleneck in this setup, and by how much is it limiting the potential? Thanks in advance for your replies

I doubt the CPU will ever hold the GPU back in games so the bottleneck here would be the GPU and you cannot upgrade it as it is a laptop, unless you have Thunderbolt 3

[boggy77]

run gta and use some monitoring software lime msi afterburner overlay to see if you cpu is at 100% utilisation or you gpu is at 100% utilisations. whichever is at 100%, that's your bottleneck for that particular game. but you can't do anything about it anyway, so why worry?

[Malymole]

5 minutes ago, Syn. said:

I doubt the CPU will ever hold the GPU back in games so the bottleneck here would be the GPU and you cannot upgrade it as it is a laptop, unless you have Thunderbolt 3

[Malymole]

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

run gta and use some monitoring software lime msi afterburner overlay to see if you cpu is at 100% utilisation or you gpu is at 100% utilisations. whichever is at 100%, that's your bottleneck for that particular game. but you can't do anything about it anyway, so why worry?

Hi, it doesnt look like any factors are at 100% when I  run the game