Good Programs to test bottleneck?

[Octavialicious]

I'm trying to see how much my Xeons bottleneck my GTX 980, so I want to find a benchmark to compare to other people with GTX 980s. I was using 3D Mark, but I'm not a fan. Any ideas? Something more realistic, I like Tomb Raider benchmark but I don't want to do a huge download right now

[SleathX1]

Xeons bottleneck my GTX 980

 

Xeons

 

GTX 980s

 

 

Lol.

[Syntaxvgm]

Look for single thread intensive games and well multi threaded games to ge ta balance of best and worse case scenarios. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Lol.

without a base clock boost OP is at 2.8GHz without turbo, so yes a bottleneck is entirely possible with some games. 

[Octavialicious]

Lol.

What's so funny? These Xeons lack single core power, and can be outclassed in single core performance by many modern laptops

[Lotus]

Starcraft 2

Planetside 2 during heavy firefights

Nintendo Wii emulator

 

 

those are some of the ones that place high single-threaded demands. Starcraft 2 is one of the worst offenders I've seen.

[SleathX1]

without a base clock boost OP is at 2.8GHz without turbo, so yes a bottleneck is entirely possible with some games. 

What's so funny? These Xeons lack single core power, and can be outclassed in single core performance by many modern laptops

Okay, so I might be totally wrong, but I was just making a joke about the insane amount of horsepower.

[Octavialicious]

Okay, so I might be totally wrong, but I was just making a joke about the insane amount of horsepower.

Fair enough, I'm hoping to buy an EVGA SR-2 so I can overclock these and then we will have some major fire power

[minibois]

Starcraft 2

Planetside 2 during heavy firefights

Nintendo Wii emulator

 

 

those are some of the ones that place high single-threaded demands. Starcraft 2 is one of the worst offenders I've seen.

Dolphin emulator

[FatPenguin]

compare your PC to other people with the same specs if there is a big difference then you know

[Octavialicious]

Dolphin emulator

 

 

Starcraft 2

Planetside 2 during heavy firefights

Nintendo Wii emulator

 

 

those are some of the ones that place high single-threaded demands. Starcraft 2 is one of the worst offenders I've seen.

idk I'm trying to find something that is a set benchmark, because I feel if I compare my score to someone else with a random game it might be off because we might be at different parts of the game/map

[minibois]

idk I'm trying to find something that is a set benchmark, because I feel if I compare my score to someone else with a random game it might be off because we might be at different parts of the game/map

Maybe try games with some built in benchmarks, like Tomb Raider 2013 (although that is not a good CPU testing game) or Bioshock Inifite (not a very demanding game in terms of CPU and GPU, so might give some interesting results

 

And you can of course also try Firestrike and compare your results to other results of SLI GTX 980's

[Lotus]

idk I'm trying to find something that is a set benchmark, because I feel if I compare my score to someone else with a random game it might be off because we might be at different parts of the game/map

Those kinds of standardized benchmark runs in games rarely ever stress the CPU. I thought the goal was to see how much of a bottleneck you're experiencing, and that's an easy check. Just record your benchmark with GPU usage and CPU core usage by %. That's not 2 graphs but several since you have several CPU cores.