Is my GPU a bottleneck?

[IAmAkiro]

I don't know how to explain this, but i let HWMonitor run in the Background when i open and play Dota 2, on High settings with a few things turned off, i saw these results, and thought is my GPU a bottleneck from this percentage useage? 

I don't know much about it but I'd like better opinion.

[Aereldor]

Looks like it. What are your system specks? This is just usage.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Some times the video card won't run at full power depending on the application (or driver setting, or something, I don't know). For example, I'm sure my video card can render Half-Life 2 at a billion frames per second but it's capped at 300 (and even that's pretty generous) because... what's the point?

[SteinerW]

All source games are capped at 300 FPS by default.

[IAmAkiro]

i5 4670K 

GTX 1070 

16Gigs ram

But when i look sometimes it only use around 20-40%

the card don't have any issues during Dead by Daylight at ultra, which require a way stonger GPU .

[SteinerW]

How much FPS are you getting? When I play CSGO, my usage bounces all over the place.

[IAmAkiro]

at the start i get 105 stable after some time it drops in big teamfights to 70 sometimes, but i've fixed my "stuttering" it's not that "laggy" 

[EminentSun]

Its not a gpu bottleneck, if anything the cpu is probably the limiting factor. Dota is just such an non-intensive game as far as graphics go and the 1070 is such a beast that it doesn't need to break a sweat.

[IAmAkiro]

So uhm is my GPU bottlenecking my CPU?

Is my GPU faulty or? 

[SteinerW]

Could be your CPU. What's your clock speed?

[IAmAkiro]

It bounce between 3535 and 3806 i see. 

[SteinerW]

Look at you individual core usage, make sure its not pinning one of the cores at 100%.

[IAmAkiro]

I will try look into that tomorrow, but i don't know if it's the GPU i tried creating a lobby and join that, at some point at the loadingscreen my CPU all cores hitted 100% <- When i opened the game 

GPU hitted 84% suddenly and then drops, it max hitted 40% when a hero was picked and i ran around a little + higest CPU usage then is 60 50 46 46 % on the 4 cores. 

[Timote]

Dota 2 has a lot of quirks. I am a long time player and I have a machine that is far beyond capped by this game. The way assets are loaded by Dota's engine is the issue. Not your computer. On first load into a game expect your percentages to go up, and unless you have a lot of varying map skins they won't do it again. You will how ever always experience that character selection lag unless you are the last to pick. Generally the assets for each character is loaded when they are selected and spawned in the world. Same with first map load. Only way to quell this is to have a very fast HDD or SSD but you will still experience it to some effect. No matter what, that high-time will take milliseconds and you will see it reflected in your percentages and visually on screen.

 

I hope this helps but your machine is fine bro.

[IAmAkiro]

Timote > I notice that, since i tried out Vulkan and OpenGL since that my HP bar was starting out "blury" and then it loads, but after 1st load it's all fine  

Thanks for you help and input i appriciate it!

[IAmAkiro]

http://i.imgur.com/qPUBUqM.png Timote, this is after a game, think my CPU was a bit lower than 85 till the game ended, and my GPU still jumps up at 97, i just need to be sure it's not likely to be my pushed to the limit before my CPU