Is my i7 4790 bottlenecking my GTX 1070ti?

[Felix00]

Hi, until recently my configuration was:

mobo:ASRock h97 anniversary

cpu: Intel i7 4790 3.6 GHz

ram: 2xHyperx DDR3 1600 Mhz 4 Gb (dual channel)

gpu: palit gtx 960 4 gb

one SSD (with the OS) and one HDD;

then I bought a ASUS Cerberus 1070 ti, and while checking the benchmarks over the web I was obviously expecting to play at ultra in 1080p over 60 fps.

I changed the gpu, installed the drivers and everything was okay. I run AC:origins at ultra, in 1080p, and i got an average of 55 fps in zone like towns.

Opened the task manager, i have seen that my cpu's usage was 100%, and my gpu's was  like 80-85%.

It is possibly that my cpu is bottlenecking my gpu? 

A 1070ti should run almost all the game at ultra in 1080p without any problem, but 55 fps is not an acceptable average for a gpu of that tier.

I also checked if my cpu would bottlenecked my gpu, but seeing aroung various benchmark and sites all the averages were acceptable considering an i7 4790.

Can anyone help me?

(I noticed that if I upscale the resolution of 200%, the cpu get less weight).

 

 

Anyway I am not english, so forget me for any errors made)

[FloRolf]

Well to be fair, AC are terrible terrible games and their drm shit uses the cpu intensively. 

So yes, in this one case your cpu is "a Bottleneck" 

Try other games and it'll be mostly fine. 

For less of a cpu Bottleneck though, you should get a 1440p display. 

[JoostinOnline]

It's because it's Origins. Most people like to blame the DRM, but Ubisoft games in general are poorly coded, and don't run much better with Denuvo removed. Just turn down some of the physics related settings like draw distance. The difference between High and Ultra is minimal, but there are huge performance gains.

[Felix00]

I'll try now

[Brooksie359]

5 minutes ago, Felix00 said:

Hi, until recently my configuration was:

mobo:ASRock h97 anniversary

cpu: Intel i7 4790 3.6 GHz

ram: 2xHyperx DDR3 1600 Mhz 4 Gb (dual channel)

gpu: palit gtx 960 4 gb

one SSD (with the OS) and one HDD;

then I bought a ASUS Cerberus 1070 ti, and while checking the benchmarks over the web I was obviously expecting to play at ultra in 1080p over 60 fps.

I changed the gpu, installed the drivers and everything was okay. I run AC:origins at ultra, in 1080p, and i got an average of 55 fps in zone like towns.

Opened the task manager, i have seen that my cpu's usage was 100%, and my gpu's was  like 80-85%.

It is possibly that my cpu is bottlenecking my gpu? 

A 1070ti should run almost all the game at ultra in 1080p without any problem, but 55 fps is not an acceptable average for a gpu of that tier.

I also checked if my cpu would bottlenecked my gpu, but seeing aroung various benchmark and sites all the averages were acceptable considering an i7 4790.

Can anyone help me?

(I noticed that if I upscale the resolution of 200%, the cpu get less weight).

 

 

Anyway I am not english, so forget me for any errors made)

Yeah my 2080ti can play most games at 4k 60 fps no problem but in the new AC it struggles to hit 60 fps even when at very high settings rather than ultra. The origins and odyssey are both super hard to run on all hardware so it isn't your hardware nearly as much as it's the game. 

[Dedayog]

You're fine, IMO.  Large games can also be so incredibly packed with details and textures in large cities, it's not funny.  Anyone playing older MMO's knows what I mean.  I know some of you walked thru looking at the ground just to be able to move at times too

[Felix00]

so at very high i got 2-3 fps, and at high i stay at 60 fps in town.

I run TW3 and at ultra it stay at 85 fps, so you may be right.

But i suffer of micro lag some times, and it is not so smooth as it would be at 85 fps. I think that is problaly the large amount of texture quality. It is possibly?

[Derrk]

AC series is one of the few that really utilizes additional cores after 4 in games. Noticed a huge difference in fps going from my 4690k to a 2700x (same gpu)

[Streetguru]

21 minutes ago, Felix00 said:

 

Run the game at the lowest settings 720p and that will tell you where your CPU is the bottleneck

 

as your CPU is going to determine the max fps you'll be able to get in a game.

[Felix00]

anyway i suffer of microstuttering, any suggest?

[SolarNova]

Genealy speaking an i7 2nd gen or higher should not bottleneck a GPU at sub 100 FPS in 'most' games. There will be some outliers , AC Origins is one of them.

 

Above 100fps the difference in top end FPS will become noticable between each generation with the newest and fastest i7's beating the older generations. However for most people at these kinds of FPS figures, such differneces are relativly meaningless.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, Felix00 said:

anyway i suffer of microstuttering, any suggest?

Just lower your graphical settings most likely, it's more the game's fault than your CPU or GPU though

[Felix00]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just lower your graphical settings most likely, it's more the game's fault than your CPU or GPU though

I tried but the problem persist

[Felix00]

solved, it was the overlay of gog galaxy