Borderlands 3 - CPU 50% utilization GPU 100%.

[Grimham]

So, I'm a little late to the party with Borderlands 3 and I fired it up and went through the normal game/display/audio settings that most of us go through on first launch.
I ran the built-in benchmark under "Ultra" (except Motion Blur off - I don't like it) and left the rest default. I got 47 fps. So I thought "well, that's no good", so I brought shadows down to medium and fog to medium and now I'm at 58 fps. this is running at 1440p btw. Though it may seem like it, I'm not really here to ask about raising my fps, it's more that I don't understand why my CPU is 50% and GPU is 100%. I would have thought if anything it would be the other way around. Obviously you need my specs...

3770k @ 4.4
MSI Geforce 1070 Gaming
16 GB ram running at 1,8xx I believe
Crucial MX500 1TB SSD

I would have thought the CPU would be holding me back not the GPU, unless maybe this game is very GPU dependent and that's just the way it is? Thanks.

 

[Epos7]

Your GPU is the bottleneck, which is normal in most games these days, especially at higher resolutions. If you dropped the resolution to 1080p, you'd likely see higher CPU usage in relation to the GPU.

 

[criccio]

Sounds like exactly what i'd expect and how it should be at that resolution. You want to be GPU bottlenecked, not the other way around.

 

[Grimham]

I just assumed the older CPU would be the bottleneck to the (less old) GPU and couldn't feed it fast enough. Guess not, at least in this case. Thanks.

 

[Zinn]

Borderlands 3 is the most inexplicable GPU hog game I’ve played in recent memory. You can barely get over 60fps at 4K with a 3080. I got part of the way through on my 1080 Ti with settings dialed way back but decided it wasn’t worth it. I’ll try again when I have a better GPU lol

 

[socK]

Turn down the volumetric fog setting down a couple notches, you'll gain a huge amount of performance for very small visual difference.

Besides that, it seems kind of poorly optimized. It's _really_ GPU heavy. And the art style is good, but it's not really technically noteworthy enough to warrant its performance, I think.