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.
They damn well better. I’m perfectly happy with my board from 2017. Even if it might bottleneck my newer GPU.
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.