AM I being Bottlenecked?

[laramsrule94]

Would this CPU: AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics, at 3.2ghz would be bottlenecking my EVGA Geforce GTX 660 2gb DDR5 GPU? Im playing wow and getting like 60=70 frames in some places. and certain games feel sluggish. On Windows 8 btw

 

[ASHISH65]

No there is no bottleneck.do not worry.

 

[laramsrule94]

Ok, is it just the GPU isnt all I thought it would be :l I can play bf3 pretty easily on lowish settings with good frames, and WoWs like 6 years old..

 

[satyamdubey]

if you are not maxing out your gpu, yet your cpu is being fully utilized then yes your are being bottlenecked. GTX 660 is a great GPU and you should be able to play BF3 at ultra preset @ 1080p: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-geforce-gtx-650-benchmark,3297-7.html

 

[amuffin]

Simply because BF3 and WoW are more CPU dependent than GPU dependent.

 

[darth pravus]

Your CPU needs a big overclock or replacing.

WOW is heavily intel biased.

 

[satyamdubey]

Simply because BF3 and WoW are more CPU dependent than GPU dependent.

are'nt the trinity APU's piledriver cores? I think they should handle cpu intensive games much better than what OP is stating.

 

[noob2222]

They have no L3 cache, most games love l3 cache.

 

[satyamdubey]

They have no L3 cache, most games love l3 cache.

agreed but should it take that big a hit. It's a piledriver core @ 3.2 after all.

 

[noob2222]

you can see the games drop by 20%+ , both pd cores at 3.8 ghz

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/700?vs=675

 

[satyamdubey]

you can see the games drop by 20%+ , both pd cores at 3.8 ghz

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/700?vs=675

convinced with your point