Need help about hardware bottleneck

General Discussion
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My Spec
Windows 10
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 8 core (3.2GHz)
GIGABYTE Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
DDR4 3200 MHz 8GBx2
SanDisk SSD PLUS 2TB

In Game Setting
1080p Full screen mode
In-game resolution 50%
V-sync = off
triple buffering = off
reduce buffering = on
Nvidia reflex = enabled + boost
high quality sampling = AMD FSR 2.2
image sharpening = 1.0
other thing basically set to low

[Extra : while in game, both my CPU and GPU at highest only up to 60-70% usage, never gone higher than 80%]

i decided upgrade my monitor from 144 to 280.
my pc kind of able to get around 120-240 frame (my feeling about 160 average).
240 frame almost only happen at practice range or spawn, when not so much happening on the screen.
i got to some simulator site that say my cpu is my bottleneck, but i am not sure if its correct.
Please help, thank you.

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You are in the wrong place.
Here is the place to cry that you canā€™t get everything for free like in OW1 and that you cannot adapt to change.

Go on https://linustechtips.com forum to ask about computer related stuff.

In order to check if your CPU is the bottleneck, you must see the GPU Utilization %. If your GPU is at 100%, then your CPU is not the bottleneck.

That seems a fair FPS for that GPU anyway.

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What settings and resolution?

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I have added in-game settings at 1st post, may you take a look ?

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Whatā€™s number in parenthesis after the resolution? Should be 280.
Make sure to set the frame rate to Custom ā†’ 600.

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it is 144 for the moment, i has not get the new monitor yet.
Before i decide to purchase the new monitor, i change the in game max frame rate to 300,
so i know what frame rate my PC is capable.

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If your gpu is at 70% when your frame rate is set to 300, then yes, the CPU is the bottleneck.

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im 90% sure that you dont have any hardware limitation. uninstall (ddu) and install drivers for gpu and set your nvidia control panel to default settings.
check windows settings for gaming (google it) and make sure you dont have any power saving options turned on. your cpu is more than capable or producing 300+ fps in game but it will certainly drop to 100-180 in combat when 10 heroes use abilities.

if you have years without clean os install and you like to mess with reg or settings, something might be broken.

try 100% resolution without FSR just to test before all that.

btw 280fps is useless.

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if you are not hitting 100% of either, you arenā€™t being bottlenecked in that particular case.
Seems more like you are being limited by speed. Could be due bad drivers or power saving mode.

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h W H A T

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About a year ago I upgraded my CPU from AMD 2700 to a 5800X3D. My old cpu wasnā€™t even reaching 40% usage and itā€™s better than the one you have now, yet upgrading it boosted my FPS from around 180 FPS to a solid 300+.

I have an AMD Radeon VII GPU which is a little newer than yours and probably a bit more powerful. But at 1080p in OW2 it was being limited by the CPU even though it didnā€™t look like it based on the usage percentages while playing.

Iā€™ll also note that my Ram is DDR4 3200, like yours. Iā€™m thinking your CPU is the bottleneck with OW based on my own results.

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Early Gen Ryzen CPUā€™s didnā€™t have the best single core performance, so even though all your cores arenā€™t maxed itā€™s still likely bottlenecking a bit.

Also, make sure youā€™re using xmp.

If you want your CPU to work less, disable fsr. Fsr shifts a bit of the work off the gpu to the CPU. Thatā€™ll balance things out more.

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