CPU bottleneck?

[Sampson0693]

Hi guys. I'm after some advice on my system. I started pc gaming around 3 years ago and everything has been smooth until now. I have recently upgraded from a 760 to a 1070 and not seen the gains that I was expecting. My specs are as follows:

i5 4670 (non k)

16gb 1600mhz ram

gtx 1070 gigabyte g1 edition

msi z87-g45 mobo

1920*1080 res

 

from original research (online forums) I was under the impression that my cpu would not bottle neck that gpu but it appears to be doing exactly that. While trying to max out games I am getting 100% cpu usage but normal temps. When comparing fps benchmarks on games such as rise of tomb raider, GTA v, bf1 and project cars I am well behind, just cause3 is pretty much unplayable. My firestrike score is coming in at 12900, others with the same setup are getting ~14k. I have seen people saying things like playing at 1440 will help with this issue to put more load on the gpu?

 

I guess my my first question is, is this a confirmed bottleneck or can I try some things?

 

Second question, if confirmed bottleneck, would you guys advise upgrading to skylake system which obviously involves a lot more or should I simply get a haswell i7 at this point?

 

thanks in advance. Sorry for the long Post. 

[Sampson0693]

Hi. 

 

Yeh I used task manager and hwmonitor to check all the hardware. I am getting 100% usage on the cpu and 95% to 100% on the gpu. All temps are ok. 

 

The drivers are all upto date and windows is fully updated (I saw somebody advise that before so I thought why not). 

 

When running the very high benchmark on tomb raider I am getting ~ 60fps when anandtech results show 112 albeit with a different processor. Surely not such a difference? Smaller difference on GTA. I get ~59 and benchmarks show 90?

 

 

[RileyTheFox]

1 minute ago, Sampson0693 said:

Hi. 

 

Yeh I used task manager and hwmonitor to check all the hardware. I am getting 100% usage on the cpu and 95% to 100% on the gpu. All temps are ok. 

 

The drivers are all upto date and windows is fully updated (I saw somebody advise that before so I thought why not). 

 

When running the very high benchmark on tomb raider I am getting ~ 60fps when anandtech results show 112 albeit with a different processor. Surely not such a difference? Smaller difference on GTA. I get ~59 and benchmarks show 90?

 

 

 

Most likely a bottleneck then

[ARikozuM]

6 minutes ago, Sampson0693 said:

Yeh I used task manager and hwmonitor to check all the hardware. I am getting 100% usage on the cpu and 95% to 100% on the gpu. All temps are ok.

You're getting all that you can out of the system. Try lowering settings and turning off anti-virus from the background.

[Sampson0693]

Thanks. I thought that might be the case. 

 

this was my first experience with the firestrike benchmark software. Should I be concerned that I am 1000 away from people with almost identical hardware?

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Sampson0693 said:

Thanks. I thought that might be the case. 

 

this was my first experience with the firestrike benchmark software. Should I be concerned that I am 1000 away from people with almost identical hardware?

You can try to find the issue by making a new OS install and seeing how much your score changes. If the score is matching the others you've seen, do a fresh install and start anew.