Question Bottleneck??

[manolissterg12]

I have a I5 4690 3,5 MHz 4 cores 4 threades, GTX 1060 Dual 6GB OC edition and 8GB ram 1333 MHz. I noticed in some games that GPU usage is not 100% as it used to be with my old GPU. Is it bottlenecking ?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Actually they should pair quite well together.

 

[xDeadly95]

It depends on which game are you playing, I had a GTX 1060 too and I was getting a heavy cpu bottleneck on Black Ops 4, but also on Rainbow Six Siege and on Fortnite a little. All this with an i5 6500 and playing with a 180hz monitor. I solved my problem changing my cpu to a Ryzen 7 2700X. You can check the i5 6500 specs on Intel's website, but it's very similar to yours.

Edit: I don't remember if gpu usage was dropping or still high, but I'm sure cpu usage was often or always at 100% on these games and others.