[SOLVED] Am I bottlenecking or is something going wrong?

[Hwheatley2000]

Specs:
GTX 3060ti
I7 8700k 4.7
16GB DDR4 RAM 3000mhz
Windows 11
Game in referring too: Dying light 2

so currently playing DL2, using MSI afterburners overlay. When playing at 1080p high settings with DX11, my usage is between 60-80% and my CPU 40-70%. At 1440p my usage is between 80-90 and CPU around the same. (To note if I use DX12 it’s 100% most of the time) I just don’t get why 1080p goes down to 60% sometimes that’s nearly half my performance not being utilised. My Fps for the most part is totally fine but sometimes when running about the frame time has a fair few little spikes in them (only tiny ones) but a good amount of them. I am using DSR to upscale to 1440p as my monitor is only 1080p. I also monitor my .1% and 1% lows and they always seem to be really low and the number just doesn’t change like it isn’t updating . Am I being crazy and it’s normal or is something not right?

 

[Hwheatley2000]

First of all, free up at least 24GB (total) of space on the Kinston A400, that disk is way too full for an SSD.

SSD needs to have at least 10% of the total space free, in fact I would make it 30GB of free space.

This may or not improve your gaming, but nevertless is a must for all current SSD, no matter what type is.

Check your game again after this, and re-run userbenchmark.

Ill free up some space, does that benchmark look okay for my set up?

 

[RodroX]

Ill free up some space, does that benchmark look okay for my set up?

Everything looks ok to me, but the SSD.

 

[GhostWPT]

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50581244 theres my results

Everything looks as it should, there's no need to worry.

 

[mdd1963]

One should not decide 'something is amiss' based just on GPU or CPU usage goals.... (certainly, many games will only have 50-60% GPU usage at 1080P, regardless of CPU), as long as frame rates are roughly where they should be for a particular set of hardware. (clearly, an 8700K/3080Ti is not going to match a 12700K/3090, etc., but at mid-range GPUs, the differences are much less)

I doubt huge differences will be seen in frame rates with assorted CPUs using a 3060/3060Ti even at 1080P....(below is an 8700K vs. a 12700K with a 3060 Ti)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmndOiV5IU0

 

[Hwheatley2000]

Everything looks as it should, there's no need to worry.

Thought it looked alrijt I done it before and no gpu detected 😂

 

[Hwheatley2000]

One should not decide 'something is amiss' based just on GPU or CPU usage goals.... (certainly, many games will only have 50-60% GPU usage at 1080P, regardless of CPU), as long as frame rates are roughly where they should be for a particular set of hardware. (clearly, an 8700K/3080Ti is not going to match a 12700K/3090, etc., but at mid-range GPUs, the differences are much less)

I doubt huge differences will be seen in frame rates with assorted CPUs using a 3060/3060Ti even at 1080P....(below is an 8700K vs. a 12700K with a 3060 Ti)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmndOiV5IU0

So let’s say I upgraded to an i5 12600k I wouldn’t see much Fps improvement in my games? Thank you for the help btw! Oooo also my kobo supports up to 9th gen so max i7 I could get is 9700k I couldn’t get the 12600k because that’s 12th gen?

 

[Hwheatley2000]

Everything looks ok to me, but the SSD.

I moved some things around gonna run another one tonight!

 

[Hwheatley2000]

One should not decide 'something is amiss' based just on GPU or CPU usage goals.... (certainly, many games will only have 50-60% GPU usage at 1080P, regardless of CPU), as long as frame rates are roughly where they should be for a particular set of hardware. (clearly, an 8700K/3080Ti is not going to match a 12700K/3090, etc., but at mid-range GPUs, the differences are much less)

I doubt huge differences will be seen in frame rates with assorted CPUs using a 3060/3060Ti even at 1080P....(below is an 8700K vs. a 12700K with a 3060 Ti)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmndOiV5IU0

Just watched that video I couldn’t see the 3060ti benchmarks though

 

[Vic 40]

Just watched that video I couldn’t see the 3060ti benchmarks though

In his defence, the RT 2080 ti and 3060 ti perform about equal in alot of games.

 

[Hwheatley2000]

In his defence, the RT 2080 ti and 3060 ti perform about equal in alot of games.

Ahh I see I see makes alot more sense haha

 

[Hwheatley2000]

Everything looks as it should, there's no need to worry.

So bios seems to be up to date apparently it’s not worth doing as it could mess with my pc couldn’t find them on NVIDIA website, mobo is up to date so was probably just me

 

[RodroX]

So bios seems to be up to date apparently it’s not worth doing as it could mess with my pc couldn’t find them on NVIDIA website, mobo is up to date so was probably just me

So did you made some more free space on the SSD and re-tested everything?

 

[Vic 40]

He did,
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50624612

you have alot of space on that hdd, is almost empty, might want to see what you can load off to that likedocuments folder, video folder and photo folder and such.

 

[Hwheatley2000]

He did,
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50624612

you have alot of space on that hdd, is almost empty, might want to see what you can load off to that likedocuments folder, video folder and photo folder and such.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/50687379 That's my test I just ran I made space on my SSD and put my programmes into my drive G

 

[Vic 40]

Looks good.

might want to see what you can load off to that like documents folder, video folder and photo folder

Would still make the HDD the place for these.

 

[Hwheatley2000]

Looks good.


Would still make the HDD the place for these.

I'm going too, thinking of getting a 500gb or 1tb M.2 drive just makes life much easier lol. And thank you everyone for all the help!