Same boat here. My GPU utilization literally hard-caps at 85%, but I’ve had the same ~$90 mobo for 5 or 6 years now, increased RAM a year later and got the latest available CPU for it last year. When (or “if”, looking at where personal computing hardware is going) I do upgrade the mobo/ CPU it’ll have the side effect of giving me a 15% bump in GPU performance as well.
99% / 100% GPU utilization means your GPU is doing everything it can to push frames out. Increasing monitor resolution will not make your GPU work less hard; frames will go down but utilization will stay the same.
Same boat here. My GPU utilization literally hard-caps at 85%, but I’ve had the same ~$90 mobo for 5 or 6 years now, increased RAM a year later and got the latest available CPU for it last year. When (or “if”, looking at where personal computing hardware is going) I do upgrade the mobo/ CPU it’ll have the side effect of giving me a 15% bump in GPU performance as well.
I’m nothing but stoked that my AM4 CPU can still get my GPU to 99% utilization, then. Once I finally jump to ultrawide, I wonder if that will change.
99% / 100% GPU utilization means your GPU is doing everything it can to push frames out. Increasing monitor resolution will not make your GPU work less hard; frames will go down but utilization will stay the same.
Good point.