Question Why is my CPU Utilization so low in Ghost Recon Wildlands?

[carn]

 

[Lutfij]

Make and model of your motherboard? BIOS version for your motherboard? Just curious, are you experiencing any issues with the frames rates? Does this low CPU utilization only happen with this title?

 

[carn]

MOBO: MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI
BIOS: 7D75v1J

No issues w/ frame rates or low CPU utilization in other games.
I started to monitor CPU utiliation in this game during gameplay and it seems normal. It's around 30-40% when traversing the open-world. I assume that's sensible for a 2017 title.

I suspect the benchmark just doesn't put much work onto the CPU. There are no NPCs in the benchmark and it's just the camera looking around the environment with a couple explosions at the end.

Someone told me that I bottlenecked my 4070 ti super with my 7800x3d and posted a link to a bottleneck-calculator, but a little bit of research showed me those calculators aren't reliable.

 

[TeamRed2024]

Someone told me that I bottlenecked my 4070 ti super with my 7800x3d and posted a link to a bottleneck-calculator, but a little bit of research showed me those calculators aren't reliable.

They are completely worthless.

 

[punkncat]

Does anyone recall which of the MSI Tomahawk boards had the PCB issue? IIRC it was cracking around the socket?

 

[geofelt]

Your 7800X3d has 16 processing threads.
If your app was single threaded and 100% utilized the total cpu utilization would be about 6% (1/16)
When running a game, there will be time to present graphics, and this time is not necessarily overlapped.
It is not a simple equation.

As a simple test, run the cpu-Z bench test.
You should see a single thread performance rating of about 654:
http://valid.x86.fr/bench/rq37t7

 

[carn]

Your 7800X3d has 16 processing threads.
If your app was single threaded and 100% utilized the total cpu utilization would be about 6% (1/16)
When running a game, there will be time to present graphics, and this time is not necessarily overlapped.
It is not a simple equation.

As a simple test, run the cpu-Z bench test.
You should see a single thread performance rating of about 654:
http://valid.x86.fr/bench/rq37t7

Thank you for explaining (and the others who helped)! I didn't realize the benchmark was just measuring one thread, but it makes sense.