what benchmark software to determine cpu utilization in games?

[IntelDiesel]

I've tried MSI Kompressor and it has some tests that push the cpu. Is there anything else out there?

I seen the cpu utilization up to 29% at 2560x1440

 

[Dunlop0078]

Do you want to monitor cpu performance? Or stress test it? MSI afterburner can monitor activity on individual cpu cores and programs like prime95, aida64, intel burn test, etc can be used to stress your cpu.

 

[IntelDiesel]

So maybe just run a 3dmark and view task manager cpu utilization?
I'm wanting to know how hard my cpu is working while pushing high graphics resolutions to see if I'm bottlenecking

 

[synphul]

At 1440p it's probably going to push your gpu harder than your cpu. As resolutions increase the load falls more on the gpu. Each game is different though as far as cpu utilization, you'd have to use something like msi afterburner and set the osd to show cpu core usage and watch the values. That would be the best indicator and you can set it to watch cpu cores, gpu usage, vram usage etc.

Unless a synthetic gaming benchmark can mimic a wide variety of games it won't be nearly as conclusive as your own testing with an actual game. Crysis 2 uses the cpu differently from skyrim, differently from cod ghosts and so on.

 

[junkeymonkey]

you can take a look at this ?? may not be in games but fun to run and see

http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/

result text

Processor(s): Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Logical Cores: 4
Physical Memory: 17,107,124,224 bytes ( 16.0 GiB )
CPU Frequency: 3,399,058,608 Hz

Program Version: 0.6.7 Build 9457 (Windows - x64 AVX2 ~ Airi)
Constant: Pi
Algorithm: Chudnovsky Formula
Decimal Digits: 2,500,000,000
Hexadecimal Digits: Disabled
Threading Mode: 4 threads
Computation Mode: Ram Only
Working Memory: 12,347,006,608 bytes ( 11.4 GiB )
Logical Disk Usage: 0 bytes ( 0 bytes )

Start Date: Tue Feb 24 00:15:24 2015
End Date: Tue Feb 24 00:24:20 2015

Computation Time: 490.808 seconds
Total Time: 535.347 seconds

CPU Utilization: 386.977 %
Multi-core Efficiency: 96.744 %