Hello,
I have a weird situation going on right now and I'm not sure what to do about it.
My specs are the GTX 980ti (6gb of VRAM), AMD FX-8350 Eight Core Processor, 16gb of DDR3 ram, and a gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard.
Up until now when playing games I've assumed that the bottleneck on my system is the CPU because it's a mid-budget AMD CPU. Today I decided to look at MSI Afterburner while playing Overwatch and noticed that my GPU was at 100% usage and it was using ~1,500mb of VRAM while my CPU was at ~70% usage. My first thought was that maybe it's just a really high GPU intensive game, but that didn't make sense due to the performance I am getting (If you're familiar with OW I'm getting around 120fps on low...). I've talked to some of my friends running lower-end setups and they are achieving more FPS than I am on about the same settings. Also, if my GPU has 6gb of VRAM then why isn't ~6,000mb of VRAM 100% usage instead of my 1,500mb?
Any help would be appreciated, if you want to know more info on something I didn't mention please ask if it helps solve my problem.
If it is the CPU that is the problem, what would you recommend as a new one? I'm currently looking at the 6700k but I'm not sure.
Thanks!
I have a weird situation going on right now and I'm not sure what to do about it.
My specs are the GTX 980ti (6gb of VRAM), AMD FX-8350 Eight Core Processor, 16gb of DDR3 ram, and a gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard.
Up until now when playing games I've assumed that the bottleneck on my system is the CPU because it's a mid-budget AMD CPU. Today I decided to look at MSI Afterburner while playing Overwatch and noticed that my GPU was at 100% usage and it was using ~1,500mb of VRAM while my CPU was at ~70% usage. My first thought was that maybe it's just a really high GPU intensive game, but that didn't make sense due to the performance I am getting (If you're familiar with OW I'm getting around 120fps on low...). I've talked to some of my friends running lower-end setups and they are achieving more FPS than I am on about the same settings. Also, if my GPU has 6gb of VRAM then why isn't ~6,000mb of VRAM 100% usage instead of my 1,500mb?
Any help would be appreciated, if you want to know more info on something I didn't mention please ask if it helps solve my problem.
If it is the CPU that is the problem, what would you recommend as a new one? I'm currently looking at the 6700k but I'm not sure.
Thanks!