Possible Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Bottlenecking

[AirEnderman]

I recently upgraded my GPU from an msi Geforce GTX 660 to an EVGA Geforce GTX 150 Ti SC and expected a great performance increase. However, nothing at all seems to have changed according to FPS tests I've done. Heck, Minecraft with shaders ran at like 32FPS max, but generally remained below 30FPS. My specs are currently 16GB of DDR3 1333Mhz RAM, an Intel Core i5-3570 3.4Ghz, and an EVGA Geforce GTX 1050 Ti SC 4GB. I'm concerned that, perhaps, my CPU is bottlenecking my graphics card. I have tried all I can with uninstalling my graphics drivers with DDU and reinstalling them and rebooting my PC afterwards and updating my BIOS, etc., but nothing seems to work. Any chance that my CPU is the problem?

 

[AirEnderman]

Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options and check it's in Performance mode.

And yeah just check Task Manager is the basic way. Anything you change will only give small fps increases I would imagine though.

Alright, I checked that out and activated High Performance mode to see what difference that would make. Whatever the case, I might just end up purchasing a new processor, and maybe eventually getting my hands on an SSD

 

[AirEnderman]

Sorry, misread it as Wow. An Ivy Bridge i5 could potentially bottleneck a 1050Ti on CPU intensive games but I doubt it'd happen here. Check your performance plan in Windows, and that you dont have any bg processes running. At ultra settings I doubt you'll get much higher fps...

Oh God, I don't even know if the screenshot I attached was sent. You could probably just look up some screenshots online though if you aren't already familiar with how they make the game look.

 

[Multipack]

300fps? That's not what the pic above shows lol. With mods it'll only get worse. Your CPU is bottlenecking if its running at 100%. You said yours was 55%. If your GPU usage is at 100% then there's no problem. If it's low, there is.

Buying a processor wont change anything, and no your s/shot didnt show up.

 

[AirEnderman]

300fps? That's not what the pic above shows lol. With mods it'll only get worse. Your CPU is bottlenecking if its running at 100%. You said yours was 55%. If your GPU usage is at 100% then there's no problem. If it's low, there is.

Buying a processor wont change anything, and no your s/shot didnt show up.

How do I attach images to these posts? I just did the same test on game-debate and it says I am over 2500% over the recommended specs for the CPU and GPU and 1600% over the recommended for RAM. I'm not sure how to attach a screenshot, though ._. My PC should be more than able to handle this.

 

[Multipack]

Host it here https://imgur.com

Game debate lists the fps clearly for your spec in that pic though. I am not making it up lol. Their criteria for whether a game runs isn't indicative of framerates..

 

[AirEnderman]

300fps? That's not what the pic above shows lol. With mods it'll only get worse. Your CPU is bottlenecking if its running at 100%. You said yours was 55%. If your GPU usage is at 100% then there's no problem. If it's low, there is.

Buying a processor wont change anything, and no your s/shot didnt show up.

I've also done my own tests with my specs, and, without shaders, on both my 660 and 1050Ti SC, I was landing around 200-300 frames with everything switched up to Ultra

 

[Multipack]

On Minecraft??

 

[AirEnderman]

Host it here https://imgur.com

Game debate lists the fps clearly for your spec in that pic though. I am not making it up lol. Their criteria for whether a game runs isn't indicative of framerates..

On Minecraft??

Yes

 

[Multipack]

Afraid not bud. Not high settings at 1080p. You'd be lucky to get 40fps. I have VIP membership there so it lists the fps of thousands of benchmarks. Pictures dont lie.

And you need to just copy n paste the link. Pic still isnt showing lol. Am not sure how you are trying to do it.

 

[AirEnderman]

Host it here https://imgur.com

Game debate lists the fps clearly for your spec in that pic though. I am not making it up lol. Their criteria for whether a game runs isn't indicative of framerates..

Maybe so, but I know I've run faaarrrrr more frames than that at Ultra settings with my specs. Heck, even right now as I type, I'm running 70 frames with everything maxed out (of course, without shaders). While perhaps not exactly 300, I did run that with some other things (Anistropic Filtering, Mipmap Levels, Antialiasing, and Mipmap Type switched down a bit). My point was, my 1050Ti is running exactly the same as my 660. Heck, maybe it has something to do with my transition from at 768p to a 1080p monitor (which I hear takes its toll on performance), but even then, I've seen plenty of people run things that make Minecraft look like it's powered by Unreal Engine 4 or something crazy like that, and they performed MUCH better. Now, perhaps it had something to do with their 6th Gen Intel Core i5-6600K, but hey, it's the GPU that counts, right? B)

 

[AirEnderman]

Afraid not bud. Not high settings at 1080p. You'd be lucky to get 40fps. I have VIP membership there so it lists the fps of thousands of benchmarks. Pictures dont lie.

And you need to just copy n paste the link. Pic still isnt showing lol. Am not sure how you are trying to do it.

But I am literally, at this very moment, running it between 53-70 frames on Ultra settings ._.

 

[Multipack]

Even a 1080 wouldn't get past 60fps in that game.

As it says here, Minecraft is a demanding game. If you had the same fps on a 660 then the settings were lower. You may get 100fps with lowest settings possible. Put it on high or ultra preset and you will see it wont. The game automatically adjusts settings level to your GPU so they were prob much lower with your old GPU.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2684869/improve-fps-minecraft.html

 

[Multipack]

A GTX 1080 and an i7...

 

[AirEnderman]

Even a 1080 wouldn't get past 60fps in that game.

As it says here, Minecraft is a demanding game. If you had the same fps on a 660 then the settings were lower. You may get 100fps with lowest settings possible. Put it on high or ultra preset and you will see it wont. The game automatically adjusts settings level to your GPU so they were prob much lower with your old GPU.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2684869/improve-fps-minecraft.html

I run over 500 frames at low settings. B) But yeah, I mean, I did the same test with the game Rust and the performance was exactly the same with the same settings. Heck, I think it may have even been worse, and that was before I received my Full HD monitor, so I know it had nothing to do with that. I might just upgrade my CPU anyway, because that was something I saw in the benchmark videos, that their CPU was some kind of 6th Gen Intel Core i5 with like 23795884576845 cores or whatever. I'm just confused as to way their was absolutely no performance increase. Again, I could contribute that to my new monitor, but idk.

 

[AirEnderman]

A GTX 1080 and an i7...

I swear that's flawed. Try watching some benchmark videos yourself. Heck, if someone ran Minecraft with specs like that, he'd be running at well over 100 frames. With shaders, maybe he/she would dip a little below 60 frames, but I know for certain that that chart is flawed. Honestly, any benchmark test of minecraft with specs like that would destroy that chart.

 

[Multipack]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2684869/improve-fps-minecraft.html

Its a little conservative but AAA games are challenging to PC's. Not a single GPU in existence could go above 30fps on Mafia III at 2160p when it was benched recently. I really dont think a new CPU would affect anything, as your GPU wont challenge it enough, but obviously thats your call. The GPU is holding u back, not the CPU. Good luck anyway. I hope the charts are wrong!

 

[AirEnderman]

A GTX 1080 and an i7...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2684869/improve-fps-minecraft.html

Its a little conservative but AAA games are challenging to PC's. Not a single GPU in existence could go above 30fps on Mafia III at 2160p when it was benched recently. I really dont think a new CPU would affect anything, as your GPU wont challenge it enough, but obviously thats your call. Good luck anyway. I hope the charts are wrong!

That's true, but I don't play in 4K. Not enough $$$. But yeah, get a load of this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbAAa7CCMQE

Literally ran Minecraft at over 60 frames with a 1080 and an i7-6700K. I don't know what they're basing that chart off of. Maybe some PC overwhelmed by Malware! Hehehe, anyways. I appreciate the help from everyone. I'll just go on and see what I can do. There's not much else I can do to boost performance except make another upgrade somewhere. That's it for this thread, though. I'll mark your answer as the solution, Multipack