Laptop performance limit

[JJesther]

Hi, I recently bought a gaming laptop Lenovo Legion 5 with an i5 10300h and rtx 2060m, and when I play, for example, Fortnite on competitive settings to have as many fps as possible, I have pretty nice fps, but I should have more, so I went to HWINFO to see if everything runs well, and then I saw gpu limits, there are few of them. Can I restrict them? The temperatures are quite nice, at maximum load, the temperatures of gpu is 75°C and a cpu 85°C. In MSI Afterburner it says, Power limit and sometimes Voltage limit. Thank you

[tkitch]

so, Super High FPS games like CSGO and others rely more on the CPU for framerate than on the GPU.

 

What's your CPU Core usage look like while in fortnite?  

[JJesther]

3 minutes ago, tkitch said:

so, Super High FPS games like CSGO and others rely more on the CPU for framerate than on the GPU.

 

What's your CPU Core usage look like while in fortnite?  

Something about 50-70%

[Jurrunio]

9 minutes ago, JJesther said:

but I should have more,

dont compare your mobile GPU to a desktop GPU, they are different. Mobile GPUs run lower power limits (which is locked) and higher voltages will just lead to more power draw at the same frequency, which means hitting the power limit harder and run lower frequency.

[JJesther]

9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

dont compare your mobile GPU to a desktop GPU, they are different. Mobile GPUs run lower power limits (which is locked) and higher voltages will just lead to more power draw at the same frequency, which means hitting the power limit harder and run lower frequency.

Ye, Ik, so I can't do anything with power limit? And the voltage? Can I increase it without somehow hurting laptop? Cuz when I look on full map, it says everytime voltage and power limit, and then, it sometimes says ''No load'', what is that?

 

[tkitch]

25 minutes ago, JJesther said:

Something about 50-70%

That's not helpful.

 

What is each core doing?  

 

like this:

[Jurrunio]

9 minutes ago, JJesther said:

Ye, Ik, so I can't do anything with power limit? And the voltage? Can I increase it without somehow hurting laptop? Cuz when I look on full map, it says everytime voltage and power limit,

I already said it's locked. Cant even decrease it.

 

9 minutes ago, JJesther said:

and then, it sometimes says ''No load'', what is that?

means there's no app using it, i.e. idle.

[JJesther]

2 hours ago, tkitch said:

That's not helpful.

 

What is each core doing?  

 

like this:

Sorry for the late answer, but I was playing Csgo  
Task Manager is showing 90-100%, but ingame Msi Afterburner is saying 50-70%..

[tkitch]

50 minutes ago, JJesther said:

Sorry for the late answer, but I was playing Csgo  
Task Manager is showing 90-100%, but ingame Msi Afterburner is saying 50-70%..

Well right there, that's showing your GPU is only at 50%.

 

You may be hitting the point where your GPU is outpacing your CPU.  You can bump up the quality to up your GPU usage, but if the CPU is pegged?  The CPU is pegged.  

[Roswell]

A lot of makers impose these limits on a firmware level. The most visible of these restrictions is firmware based power throttling when disconnected from AC power.

 

Short of seeing if there are options in the BIOS, there isn't much you can do. 

[Qyygle]

If you're curious, you may be able to do slight overclocks via MSI afterburner. There are threads with tutorials on how to use that online, but you'd be basically unvolting the GPU, (overclocking is also used in some terms) making it run at a higher clock for the given wattage. You can usually get away with slight boosts to the GPU memory and clock, but you won't see dramatic gains from this, maybe a few FPS. You'll still be largely limited by the given GPU power limit as determined by Lenovo's firmware.

 

However, as the other posters noted, you're currently being held back largely by the CPU in this case.