Should I upgrade my GPU?

[D8NzZ]

So I recently got a good paying job and decided to upgrade my rig from a i7-7700 and a gtx 1070 TI to an i7-9700K, keeping my old GPU. I only upgraded my cpu, since everytime I loaded task manager, it confirmed that my cpu was at a 100% almost all the time under load and my gpu at only around 40%. I also decided to upgrade my monitor from a 1920x1080p 144Hz to a 2560x1440p 144Hz. With my gtx 1070 Ti overclock (+150 core clock and +500 memory clock) combined with my i7-9700k overclock (4.6 GHz) I though that I would not have to upgrade my GPU yet. However, running task manager and MSI Afterburner shows that my poor gtx is having a hard time running new games at 2560x1440p. The games were running at low fps with sometimes extremely noticeable and annoying stutter. What gpu, if needed, should I upgrade to?

[AndreiArgeanu]

A 1070ti is still a very good GPU today. You should upgrade the GPU if it doesn't perform as well in the games you're playing rather than upgrading it because of a bottleneck. If your games perform as well as you want them to perform then there's no point to upgrading the system, however if the performance is too low, or the game lags and the issue is the GPU then sure, upgrade.

[Haro]

Task manager is incorrect alot of the times 

A 1070ti is still really decent so wait for Ampere or big Navi if your considering upgrading

[kamiraasu]

35 minutes ago, D8NzZ said:

gtx 1070 TI, i7-9700K

Something doesnt add up here.
Cpu running at 100% when gaming suggests its a bottleneck.
Meaning cpu is limiting gpu performance.

Could be also that what you are running doesnt need much gpu but has high demand on cpu.

Your cpu should not be bottleneck for gtx 1070 TI.

Task manager doesnt show whole picture about gpu performance.
If you go to performance tab of it and click gpu, there is graphs that can be changed to show different performance detail.
This was discovered by HairlessMonkeyBoy Recently here.

Msi afterburner is other one i use that can be used to monitor performance too.

[Haro]

Just now, kamiraasu said:

Cpu running at 100% when gaming suggests its a bottleneck.
Meaning cpu is limiting gpu performance

Not necessarily the case 

Alot of the times it could be that the game doesn't have alot of GPU work for the GPU but it is more of a cpu heavy game 

Look at Minecraft for example it barely utilizes the GPU but cpu utilization is normal 

1 minute ago, kamiraasu said:

Could be also that what you are running doesnt need much gpu But has high demand on cpu

That would most likely be the case 

[Fasauceome]

Only upgrade if performance does not meet your standards. 

38 minutes ago, D8NzZ said:

I also decided to upgrade my monitor from a 1080p 144Hz to a 2560p 144Hz

, Do you mean 2560x1440? For 1440p 144Hz, the best GPU you can possibly get is what you should be after. At max, it's more demanding than even 4k.