Cpu spiking

[Lil Toothpaste]

Does anyone else have a problem of with their cpu runing on a minimum of 90% in games like cyberpunk?

I have an i9 9900k and a 3080 so it feels like i shouldn't have this problem

[Alex Atkin UK]

10 minutes ago, Lil Toothpaste said:

Does anyone else have a problem of with their cpu runing on a minimum of 90% in games like cyberpunk?

I have an i9 9900k and a 3080 so it feels like i shouldn't have this problem

Where are you reading the CPU utilisation from?  Also Cyberpunk is known to be a CPU hog, its not even close to that on my 9900k but then I only have a 2080.

[Lil Toothpaste]

1 minute ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Where are you reading the CPU utilisation from?  Also Cyberpunk is known to be a CPU hog, its not even close to that on my 9900k but then I only have a 2080.

I am the task managers performance tab

[Digideath]

I think that's normal. Are you running very high settings with a fast frame rate?

 

I have a ryzen 7 3700x (8 cores, 16 threads) and a rtx 2060. I run cyberpunk at ray tracing medium. I get about 30-60 fps. My cpu usage is around 60% for that. Now if I had the same gfx card as you, my frame rates would be much higher meaning my cpu would get pinned the same as yours is. The more frames produced, the harder the cpu and gpu have to work.

[Lil Toothpaste]

7 minutes ago, Digideath said:

I think that's normal. Are you running very high settings with a fast frame rate?

 

I have a ryzen 7 3700x (8 cores, 16 threads) and a rtx 2060. I run cyberpunk at ray tracing medium. I get about 30-60 fps. My cpu usage is around 60% for that. Now if I had the same gfx card as you, my frame rates would be much higher meaning my cpu would get pinned the same as yours is. The more frames produced, the harder the cpu and gpu have to work.

i get around 50-80 (depending on location and stuff) when i have graphics turned up to ultra with ray-tracing

[unclewebb]

7 hours ago, Lil Toothpaste said:

I am the task managers performance tab

The Task Manager Utilization data is not the same as CPU load. Here is an example of a benchmark that fully loads 10 threads of a 20 thread CPU.

 

 

ThrottleStop reports the CPU usage correctly at 50% for the benchmark plus another 0.3% for the background tasks that are running. The Task Manager converts CPU usage into Utilization. People think that this is the same but it is not even close.

 

During this test, the CPU is running at 5200 MHz instead of the base frequency which is 3600 MHz. The 10850K and the 9900K use the same base frequency.

 

50.3% X (5200 / 3600) = 72.6%

 

Let's call that big number Utilization and users will believe that their CPU is being fully loaded. Nice graph but it is graphing meaningless data. The Processes tab does the same thing. The Details tab during this test shows the correct 50% CPU Usage.