• Happy holidays, folks! Thanks to each and every one of you for being part of the Tom's Hardware community!

Low GPU usage but not hitting high frames

connorcam123

Prominent
Jan 28, 2018
7
0
510
When playing games my FPS will almost never hit 144 FPS on Dota 2 I hit 120 FPS max and on Overwatch around 110 max. However my GPU usage always stays at around 40% is there a bottleneck and if so where? My parts are as follows,

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K (Overclocked 4.8 GHz)
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1070 TI (Memory Clock upped to 4482 MHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI-CF
SSD: SanDisk Ultra II 480GB
HDD: Seagate 1TB
 
Make sure V sync and/or G sync is disabled.

I'm not sure about both of those games, but there is a possibility that the game itself has a frame limiter built in, for example in Titanfall 2 there is an in game limit of 144fps and Portal 2/CSGO has an in game FPS limit of 300 (which you can change in the console).
 

TRENDING THREADS