Bottleneck or Should I upgrade anyway?

[Jiehfeng]

i5-4670 (non K)
GTX 1070 (no OC/founders)
8GB DDR3 RAM (1600MHZ)

Playing Watch_Dogs 2 recently has been giving me 100% CPU load from medium settings upwards. So I was wondering if this CPU has reached it's outdated destination and whether I should upgrade or not.

 

[True Buie]

Heyo Jiehfeng

It may be a bottleneck, although I don't whether this CPU actually is capable of running a 1070. Anyhow.. Try look at the GPU load. If it's not at all under load, it's most likely a bottleneck from CPU.
You can use HWmonitor or MSI afterburner to check the GPU load under gaming sessions.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Heyo Jiehfeng

It may be a bottleneck, although I don't whether this CPU actually is capable of running a 1070. Anyhow.. Try look at the GPU load. If it's not at all under load, it's most likely a bottleneck from CPU.
You can use HWmonitor or MSI afterburner to check the GPU load under gaming sessions.

What am I looking for? Over 50 percentages, 100 or below 50's? Is around 70% a bottleneck? Gonna check now anyway and post my results.

 

[True Buie]

Heyo Jiehfeng

It may be a bottleneck, although I don't whether this CPU actually is capable of running a 1070. Anyhow.. Try look at the GPU load. If it's not at all under load, it's most likely a bottleneck from CPU.
You can use HWmonitor or MSI afterburner to check the GPU load under gaming sessions.

What am I looking for? Over 50 percentages, 100 or below 50's? Is around 70% a bottleneck? Gonna check now anyway and post my results.

Well, what I mean is. If it's at like 50% it's most likely a bottleneck. If it's at around 80-100% it's fine.

 

[mattbar]

To make what True Buie is saying more clear. Turn off vsync and the game will try to achieve highest fps possible. If you're cpu is @ 100% and your graphics card is at 50% that's because you're graphics card is waiting for information from your cpu. If you are getting good frame rates (~60) than it does not matter (unless you are running a 144hz monitor and really want the extra frames to be displayed). In most cases your graphics card should be at 99% while the cpu waits for it.