Bottleneck?

[Zeorth]

So my computer was running weird the other day and I checked task manager and while playing games my cpu is constantly at 100% while gpu is at 70-75% and wont go higher? Is this a bottleneck? What can I do to fix it? CPU: 6600k GPU: GTX 1080

[bleedblue]

What games in what resolution? Also check temps.

[Fasauceome]

depends on the frequency. If you're not pushing it high enough and are also running a few things in the background, then yeah, a quad core will be a slowdown. If you manage to isolate just the game to run, you'd see better performance.

[AskTJ]

This means that the game is more CPU intensive. 

 

What game is this in?

 

Does this happens in all games?

 

 

[Zeorth]

6 hours ago, bleedblue said:

What games in what resolution? Also check temps.

1080p temps are fine. 

 

6 hours ago, fasauceome said:

depends on the frequency. If you're not pushing it high enough and are also running a few things in the background, then yeah, a quad core will be a slowdown. If you manage to isolate just the game to run, you'd see better performance.

6600k OC to 4.6 GHz

 

6 hours ago, AskTJ said:

This means that the game is more CPU intensive. 

 

What game is this in?

 

Does this happens in all games?

 

 

All games. In cpu intensive games the gpu drops to like 50% while cpu 100%

[bleedblue]

14 hours ago, OreoPandas said:

1080p temps are fine. 

 

6600k OC to 4.6 GHz

 

All games. In cpu intensive games the gpu drops to like 50% while cpu 100%

Seems normal if you game at 1080p. I don't imagine any game at that resolution to use 100% of a GTX 1080

[SkilledRebuilds]

Thread limited CPU - 4 cores easily maxed (or close to maxed out) by many games now....

 

8 Threads would have your CPU usage lower, your GPU usage higher.

4 Cores (Even Super fast ones) will still be the limiting factor in heavily threaded & demanding titles. (Not as smooth, or fully utilized,...still capable)

Even with 8 threads, the GTX1080 at 1080p is quite overkill in MANY games and will see reduced GPU usages until you create more demand by using higher resolutions or higher details (if allowed, not Ultra)

I see this as normal, GTX1080 at 1080p using 4 Cores & 4 Threads for Most games will see you not using the maximum potential of your GPU.
 

[SkilledRebuilds]

16 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

Seems normal if you game at 1080p. I don't imagine any game at that resolution to use 100% of a GTX 1080

Ghost Recon Ultra is quite demanding even at 1080p, maybe one of the few games,... but its quite rare to have a GTX1080 GPU bound at 1080p, thats for sure.

[Zeorth]

2 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Ghost Recon Ultra is quite demanding even at 1080p, maybe one of the few games,... but its quite rare to have a GTX1080 GPU bound at 1080p, thats for sure.

 

2 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Thread limited CPU - 4 cores easily maxed (or close to maxed out) by many games now....

 

8 Threads would have your CPU usage lower, your GPU usage higher.

4 Cores (Even Super fast ones) will still be the limiting factor in heavily threaded & demanding titles. (Not as smooth, or fully utilized,...still capable)

Even with 8 threads, the GTX1080 at 1080p is quite overkill in MANY games and will see reduced GPU usages until you create more demand by using higher resolutions or higher details (if allowed, not Ultra)

I see this as normal, GTX1080 at 1080p using 4 Cores & 4 Threads for Most games will see you not using the maximum potential of your GPU.
 

If I build my new pc with a 2700X and stream at the same time (reusing my gpu) would streamlabs use all of my cpu and would I still have a bottleneck? 

[i_build_nanosuits]

3 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Thread limited CPU - 4 cores easily maxed (or close to maxed out) by many games now....

 

8 Threads would have your CPU usage lower, your GPU usage higher.

4 Cores (Even Super fast ones) will still be the limiting factor in heavily threaded & demanding titles. (Not as smooth, or fully utilized,...still capable)

Even with 8 threads, the GTX1080 at 1080p is quite overkill in MANY games and will see reduced GPU usages until you create more demand by using higher resolutions or higher details (if allowed, not Ultra)

I see this as normal, GTX1080 at 1080p using 4 Cores & 4 Threads for Most games will see you not using the maximum potential of your GPU.
 

agree...i use 4.2ghz 4770K and CPU usage is never maxed out and my GPU is always fully utilized unless the game is really not graphicaly demanding enough, i'm at 2560x1440p 144hz Gsync tho, and also VR.

 

GTX 1080 is a lot of GPU for just 1080p rendering, that's for sure.

 

OP i would try to get a second hand or someone willing to do a trade + $ for your core i5...look for i7-6700/6700K or i7-7700/7700K