Question Disappointing performance with a used GTX 1080 ?

[RJ85]

I've recently upgrading my budget system with a used GTX 1080... but I was expecting better performance... e.g. when playing Fort nite at the "recommended settings" it's running at 95-99% even on the menu screen and runs at 50-70fps in game...

Is this what others would expect to experience with the following setup? I'm not expecting high end performance however this seems low to me...


My system spec is:
MBD: Gigabyte GA-B550 GAMING X V2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
GPU: NVidia GTX 1080
SSD: Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB

 

[bill001g]

What is running at 95-99% the gpu or the cpu.

These kinda move back and forth. If the game was being limited say by the GPU and you buy a better one the load might then move the CPU. No matter what you buy something is likely going to be running at 100%.

Since you have lower end stuff do you have a monitor that can actually display over 60fps.

In general if you can get around 60fps the game should play smoothly.

 

[RJ85]

GPU running at that rate. I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be running at that or there was something wrong with it tbh...

I was hoping to purchase others game that require more capacity however I'm not convinced I'll be able to based on these results... thoughts?
Majority of forums/reviews I've found suggest even though this is a lower end setup I should be able to run at higher FPS with details high (wanted to "test" what it can do rather than wanting to play at those rates)

(I don't currently have a monitor that can run those higher refresh rates... next on the list!)

Thanks for your input!

 

[bill001g]

In general you want the GPU to be at 100% that means you are getting as many frames as the gpu can produce. If it is less it tends to mean it is waiting on the CPU to give it the frame. That though is a over generalization it can be much more complex for some games.