Question Is my GPU bottlenecking the system ?

[Nova43]

Hi. I just built a custom PC with the latest parts, and I used the parts listed in my sig. I noticed a slight sluggishness in the PC's performance when opening large resource heavy programs like Photoshop, etc. Could the GPU in my build be causing some type of bottleneck. Should I get the Ti version of the GPU? Price difference would be about $100 more. Or would there be a cheaper alternative with the same performance like the Intel Arc? Thanks!

 

[Aeacus]

PSU: Thermaltake - Smart BM3 80+ Bronze PCIE Gen 5 ATX 3.0 750W

Holy hell... Why? Just why?

I noticed a slight sluggishness in the PC's performance when opening large resource heavy programs like Photoshop, etc.

Could be RAM. Or could be due to HDDs you have since HDDs have very slow read speed compared to SSD, especially M.2 NVMe SSD.

Is my GPU bottlenecking the system ?

To find out if GPU is holding back; open up any game and note the FPS. Then, reduce in-game performance and if FPS increases, build is held back by GPU.
Which it regardless is, since RTX 4060 and i9-14900K combination is heavily tilted to CPU side. Top-notch CPU paired with mediocre GPU. Why?

 

[bill001g]

Photoshop does not actually use many of the advanced features of a video card. It would more be for a application that does video rendering or like most people here live real time video processing like a game uses.

Photoshop, even if it would use other features, does not really care about frame rates. The image on the screen changes so seldom you likely could get away with 10 frames a second.