6600k Bottlenecks GTX 1080

[Solegide]

From benchmarks I've seen, a GTX 1080 should destroy Battlefield 1 at 1080p, with all details turned up, and achieve 130+fps, which is great for people like me, who wants 120fps, in as many games as possible. However when i look at Afterburner while playing BF1, my CPU is pinned at 100%, my GPU usage is all over the place,The problem isn't thermals, the fans on my radiator set fairly high, while gaming. Could this be a sign that, non-hyperthreaded quad cores are slowing becoming inadequate for gaming? Or could there be something wrong with my 6600k?

 

EDIT: If forgot to mention that my framerates average about 80-90fps, and will sometimes go as high as 120fps, but that's about it.

Edited February 24, 2018 by Solegide

[Janeyadonnah]

This really shouldn't be a bottleneck as far as I'm concerned.

Can you post screenshots of the temperature and the frequency of your CPU?

[Herman Mcpootis]

the 6600k just isn't good enough anymore, you'll want an i7 6/700 or ryzen 1600 for a gtx 1070 or higher.

[Guest]

It shouldn't bottleneck, The Ryzen 1600 doesn't bottleneck the 1080 ti. A 6600k should not have problems with a 1080.

[Solegide]

16 minutes ago, Klorkson said:

This really shouldn't be a bottleneck as far as I'm concerned.

Can you post screenshots of the temperature and the frequency of your CPU?

Here you go.

[Skiiwee29]

Sounds normal for me with 1080p since more of the work load is offloaded to the CPU and the GPU is sitting by waiting... Battlefield 1 is a CPU intensive game. 

[Herman Mcpootis]

12 minutes ago, Masr said:

It shouldn't bottleneck, The Ryzen 1600 doesn't bottleneck the 1080 ti. A 6600k should not have problems with a 1080.

the 1600 has 2 extra cores with hyperthreading to allow it to keep up, the 6600k doesn't have that advantage.

 

[Guest]

Just now, herman mcpootis said:

the 1600 has 2 extra cores with hyperthreading to allow it to keep up, the 6600k doesn't have that advantage.

 

Thanks for pointing that out for me, seems like I didn't do my research. 

[Janeyadonnah]

https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/42847/high-cpu-usage-low-fps-potential-fix

This seems to work for many people, sooo maybe try this

[Jurrunio]

You could overclock further

[Solegide]

35 minutes ago, Klorkson said:

https://forums.battlefield.com/en-us/discussion/42847/high-cpu-usage-low-fps-potential-fix

This seems to work for many people, sooo maybe try this

No luck. And i looked the comments, and found some other user settings to try, with no luck. pinned CPU, and slacking GPU.

[Apepa]

4 hours ago, Solegide said:

 Could this be a sign that, non-hyperthreaded quad cores are slowing becoming inadequate for gaming? Or could there be something wrong with my 6600k?

 

EDIT: If forgot to mention that my framerates average about 80-90fps, and will sometimes go as high as 120fps, but that's about it.

 

The benchmarks here are averaging 140fps for the 6600k, with 1% lows of around 90. They also tested a 6700 with HT on and off and it only made a tiny difference. They also tested a 5930k, which has 6c/12t, roughly equivalent to a 1600X aaaaaaaaaand...not much better than the 6700.

 

Yes, quad core CPUs will become outdated, but not for this particular game, and not to the degree you're seeing.

 

It could just be an issue with your setup, or it could even be a problem DICE introduced with one of their many patches.

 

One thing you could try is to turn the settings down to low and see if the FPS improves, then turn up each setting one at a time to see what hits your CPU hard. Also, check which DX version you're using.

Edited February 24, 2018 by PCGuy_5960