Ethxxn Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 I'm running Arizona ENB with 149 plugins and noticed my CPU usage is maxing out for most of the time. While my GPU usage can barely get 60%. I'm on a Ryzen 3 1200 @ 3800mhz, GTX1650 KO Ultra 4GB DDR6 and B450M mb with 16 gb of 3200ghz RAM. I checked the bottleneck calculator, and its says my card matches my cpu, but the cpu has an 8% bottleneck. Do I need a CPU upgrade? What are your frames at with a better cpu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 If you CPU is at 100%, and the GPU is only at 60..... Then yeah, a better processor will give you better framerates. The game is indeed CPU intensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 You've got a cheapo CPU. Having such small CCX units is lowering performance by at least 20%, as there's a significant performance penalty when there's cross-CCX communication. Try using ProcessHacker to change the core that the driver thread is pinned to. See if that offers any performance gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethxxn Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) You've got a cheapo CPU. Having such small CCX units is lowering performance by at least 20%, as there's a significant performance penalty when there's cross-CCX communication. Try using ProcessHacker to change the core that the driver thread is pinned to. See if that offers any performance gain. How does changing the driver thread the core is pinned to help? I was previously thinking about upgrading fans to push my R3 1200 to 4ghz, should I just get a Ryzen with a more cores/threads? Edited January 15, 2021 by Ethxxn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 How does changing the driver thread the core is pinned to help? I was previously thinking about upgrading fans to push my R3 1200 to 4ghz, should I just get a Ryzen with a more cores/threads? Already said why. Here's a simple video showing the performance deficit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHnYLLgyY Ideally, you'd get a Ryzen 7 which has two full CCXs, or an APU which has one full CCX. The non-APU quad cores have 2+2 cores, and the hex cores have 3+3. New Vegas will use four or so, though heavily limited by the single-threaded driver. A Zen 2 CPU would be a good bump up, Zen 3 would be ideal but they're too expensive and not in stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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