I know it has been time for a while now but I have a question, I was never a big believer when it came to bottlenecking I know it's there but usually it's overexaggerated.
Anyway up until two weeks ago I have been playing with a GTX 680, but I got a great deal on the GTX 970 in sig so I snatched it up, now before on my 680 I have never seen the usage drop below 99% in any game minus v-sync or fps cap offcourse.
But now with the 970 I noticed it in two games so far have not tested more but, in Fallout 4 in some places in the city the card hovers around 55%-65% while the cpu is at 75-90% thing is it's not at 60fps, I am seeing 45fps with the gpu at 50% meaning something somewhere is bottlenecking anyway I chucked it up to bad game optimization.
Two days ago I got Watch Dogs, same thing happened some places 99% others are 80% and drops to 50% while driving in the city with again the cpu seems to be spiking.
Now I have not tested many more games but I did watch some gameplay videos on these games with Skylake and a 970, and the guy seems to maintain 99% usage on the card witch led me to believe that I am infact being bottlenecked.
So what do you guy sudgest is this CPU actually holding me back even with the 4.1GHz overclock or is it just something else ?
Anyway up until two weeks ago I have been playing with a GTX 680, but I got a great deal on the GTX 970 in sig so I snatched it up, now before on my 680 I have never seen the usage drop below 99% in any game minus v-sync or fps cap offcourse.
But now with the 970 I noticed it in two games so far have not tested more but, in Fallout 4 in some places in the city the card hovers around 55%-65% while the cpu is at 75-90% thing is it's not at 60fps, I am seeing 45fps with the gpu at 50% meaning something somewhere is bottlenecking anyway I chucked it up to bad game optimization.
Two days ago I got Watch Dogs, same thing happened some places 99% others are 80% and drops to 50% while driving in the city with again the cpu seems to be spiking.
Now I have not tested many more games but I did watch some gameplay videos on these games with Skylake and a 970, and the guy seems to maintain 99% usage on the card witch led me to believe that I am infact being bottlenecked.
So what do you guy sudgest is this CPU actually holding me back even with the 4.1GHz overclock or is it just something else ?