Its my GTX 1080 being bottlenecked by my i7 4790 (non k) and monito

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I feel like there is a limit on how much power its doing as I have a 1080p monitor with 60hz and i see it only does about 60%usage on the gpu all the time.

I tried it on my dads pc with a 1440p monitor and the gpu was 100% but the performance between 1440p and 1080p was miniscule if not no difference AT ALL. Why is this

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at lower resolutions it doesnt really take as much gpu horsepower, such as lets say(cpu disregarded) your graphics card can push 500fps on game_1 at 1080p, your cpu cant process enough information to keep up with that 500fps so your cpu is maxed out and your gpu is relaxing waiting on information from the cpu(hense your 60% usage) and your only getting 120fps. now if you crank up the resolution it takes more gpu horsepower to run, now lets say(cpu disregarded again) your graphics card can push 100-120fps on game_1 at 1440p, your gpu usage is going to be higher because its able to use more of its power and trying harder and because its not powerful enough to go fps crazy, its not waiting on the cpu to send information before it draws the...
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at lower resolutions it doesnt really take as much gpu horsepower, such as lets say(cpu disregarded) your graphics card can push 500fps on game_1 at 1080p, your cpu cant process enough information to keep up with that 500fps so your cpu is maxed out and your gpu is relaxing waiting on information from the cpu(hense your 60% usage) and your only getting 120fps. now if you crank up the resolution it takes more gpu horsepower to run, now lets say(cpu disregarded again) your graphics card can push 100-120fps on game_1 at 1440p, your gpu usage is going to be higher because its able to use more of its power and trying harder and because its not powerful enough to go fps crazy, its not waiting on the cpu to send information before it draws the next frame. kind of a crappy answer but i think it explains it well enough to where you get the idea. its 3:30 am so excuse my typing and thought process
 
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1080 was not really designed for 1080p its a high resolution card. That being said if you are getting a constant 60fps I would be happy as that all the monitor can take.
 
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Wow that's so useful to know. Thanks so much. So to get ridiculous fps I would need a oc'ed cpu to keep up with the fps.


Let's say I got 100 fps on my i7 4790 3.60ghz and I changed to one where I can get 4.50 ghz do you know roughly what I can get. Thank you
 
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you would see an improvement however its going to vary each game, personally i would just use DSR(i think thats the name), nvidia's dynamic super resolution? anyways, enable that and toggle 1440p or higher, it will make your game look sharper and a little better while putting more load on your gpu instead of your cpu. also you cant overclock that cpu, its locked. you need a 4790k to overclock.
 
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What is your resolution? I have a GTX 1070, 60hz monitor and I'm getting 32 gpu usage.
 
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