Low gpu utilization

[Justbon321]

I have a 3080 i7 12gen 32 gb ram ddr4, low gpu util on apex legends? and im only getting 140 fps and i have a 240 hz monitor how do i fix this

[strange13930]

4 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

I have a 3080 i7 12gen 32 gb ram ddr4, low gpu util on apex legends? and im only getting 140 fps and i have a 240 hz monitor how do i fix this

cpu core utilization?

[nether1234]

Is the FPS cap on in the game settings?

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, Justbon321 said:

I have a 3080 i7 12gen 32 gb ram ddr4, low gpu util on apex legends? and im only getting 140 fps and i have a 240 hz monitor how do i fix this

What monitor resolution and how low is "low"?

 

Try Intel PresentMon, see what it has to say about CPU and GPU busy.

[The K-Man89]

Could be outdated drivers or background processes consuming resources, double check all your driver's, chipset drivers are all up to date and see what else is running in the background that could be causing your bottleneck 

[Justbon321]

On 7/3/2025 at 12:28 PM, strange13930 said:

cpu core utilization?

Gpu utilization on task manager does not go around 80 - 90% like my friend got i only have it around 30 - 40 on low settings in game same as my friend

[Justbon321]

On 7/3/2025 at 12:32 PM, nether1234 said:

Is the FPS cap on in the game settings?

Fps cap is already in game 240 hz so 240 fps but i only get 190 and im thinking reason im only getting 190 cause my gpu only at 40% util on task manager

[Justbon321]

On 7/3/2025 at 1:53 PM, Eigenvektor said:

What monitor resolution and how low is "low"?

 

Try Intel PresentMon, see what it has to say about CPU and GPU busy.

idk what you mean by cpu and gpu busy?

[strange13930]

2 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

Gpu utilization on task manager does not go around 80 - 90% like my friend got i only have it around 30 - 40 on low settings in game same as my friend

cpu utilization not gpu

[Justbon321]

On 7/3/2025 at 1:59 PM, The K-Man89 said:

Could be outdated drivers or background processes consuming resources, double check all your driver's, chipset drivers are all up to date and see what else is running in the background that could be causing your bottleneck 

Imma try to update everything in my pc, motherboard, gpu, cpu, ram, and i think thats it and ill lyk if my gpu utilization will go up even on low settings

[Justbon321]

5 minutes ago, strange13930 said:

cpu utilization not gpu

gpu util is 30-40% and cpu util is 50-60%, im tryna fix this by figuring out a way to get my gpu at 90% util at low settings and not having to turn up my graphic settings just so i can get that 90%

[The K-Man89]

17 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

Imma try to update everything in my pc, motherboard, gpu, cpu, ram, and i think thats it and ill lyk if my gpu utilization will go up even on low settings

Sounds good let me know If that works!:)

[Eigenvektor]

30 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

idk what you mean by cpu and gpu busy?

If you use Intel PresentMon, it should show multiple statistics. Two of these are called GPU busy and CPU busy.

 

They essentially tell you how much time the CPU and GPU spent working on each frame. If CPU busy is higher than GPU busy, it would indicate you're CPU limited.

 

26 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

gpu util is 30-40% and cpu util is 50-60%, im tryna fix this by figuring out a way to get my gpu at 90% util at low settings and not having to turn up my graphic settings just so i can get that 90%

That indicates a CPU limit. The best way to increase GPU utilization is by increasing graphical settings. Alternatively, you can try turning down anything that requires CPU, though I don't think there's too much in this kind of game. If nothing else helps, you'll need a faster CPU.

[Justbon321]

9 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

If you use Intel PresentMon, it should show multiple statistics. Two of these are called GPU busy and CPU busy.

 

They essentially tell you how much time the CPU and GPU spent working on each frame. If CPU busy is higher than GPU busy, it would indicate you're CPU limited.

 

That indicates a CPU limit. The best way to increase GPU utilization is by increasing graphical settings. Alternatively, you can try turning down anything that requires CPU, though I don't think there's too much in this kind of game. If nothing else helps, you'll need a faster CPU.

Youre right i might just need to upgrade my CPU, cause i aint tryna turn my grapphics up literally turned them down to get more fps 

[Eigenvektor]

57 minutes ago, Justbon321 said:

Youre right i might just need to upgrade my CPU, cause i aint tryna turn my grapphics up literally turned them down to get more fps 

Yeah, if your GPU is at 30–40% utilization, something else is the limit. Typically the CPU, though the CPU in turn could also be limited by RAM performance. In that case turning up graphics would simply increase the work for the GPU without reducing frame rate.

 

The higher the frame rate, the more often the CPU has to send data to the GPU to work on. If it isn't fast enough to run the game's simulation and do that at the same time, lower GPU utilization is the result.