CPU Bottleneck? 100% CPU usage and low GPU usage.

[Curesto]

Hi, i have been getting around only 30 FPS at ultra settings 1280X1024 resolution on Battlefield 1. Checked it and i assume that i'm having CPU bottleneck, GPU usage was low.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Xeon X5450 3.00 GHz Stock

MB: Asus ROG Commando 

GPU: Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X OC 3GB GDDR5 384-Bit (Undervolted and Underclocked)

RAM: Kingston 6GB DDR2 800MHz CL6 

HDD: Samsung HD155UI 1.5 TB 5400 RPM

PSU: Gigabyte P650B 650W 80+ Bronze

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit 20H2

 

Here's the screenshot:

 

 

 

 

[King of Memes]

17 minutes ago, Curesto said:

Hi, i have been getting around only 30 FPS at ultra settings 1280X1024 resolution on Battlefield 1. Checked it and i assume that i'm having CPU bottleneck, GPU usage was low.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Xeon X5450 3.00 GHz Stock

MB: Asus ROG Commando 

GPU: Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X OC 3GB GDDR5 384-Bit (Undervolted and Underclocked)

RAM: Kingston 6GB DDR2 800MHz CL6 

HDD: Samsung HD155UI 1.5 TB 5400 RPM

PSU: Gigabyte P650B 650W 80+ Bronze

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit 20H2

 

Here's the screenshot:

 

 

 

 

it could be. but every cpu bottlenecks every gpu. but this sounds like bad bottlenecking.  does turning down the settings help?

[yeetus the mighty]

the xeon is a server cpu with many cores, but those cores run at really low clock speeds, and old games cant utilize that many cores so the 2-3 cores being used arent enough

Edited March 21, 2021 by yeetus the mighty
wrong info

[8-Bit Ninja]

Yes that a huuuuuge bottleneck, that's a 4 core CPU with no hyperthreading build a 45nm process. Its almost 14 years old and comparable to an i7 2600, time to upgrade im afraid 

[Dr0y]

when you have a cpu bottleneck the way to put more load on the gpu is to make it work harder ... crank up the details and other graphical setting, change the resolution for something higher ... etc.  It won't give you more fps but it might put some load % on the gpu while getting you better graphics ... cpu bottleneck won't disappear thought. 

 

you can try to lower the cpu work but it's kind of hard to do if there's no options to lower things like the amount of npc present and such. 

 

you can also try to see if there's a lot of things running in the background ... close as much as possible and that might free some resources for your game to use ...

 

as said previously by the others ... there's no miracles to be made here ... that cpu is not a power house for gaming ... maybe it was good back in the days but now it's time to retire it or turn it into a media pc or office desktop ... or something like that. 

[Blake4413]

Hi guys I have an i7 9700k and rtx 3060 ti and my cpu utilization is around 85% or more in games and used to be around 45%. Gpu utilization is also low in one game but not others. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

[--SID--]

11 minutes ago, Blake4413 said:

Anybody have any ideas?

The best idea is make your own topic instead of highjacking someone else's..