Thanks Martin. MSI afterburner always shows 100% for GPU and the CPU never gets near that, so that's as far as my working out goes. Out of interest would you go 1660Ti over a 1070? I am out of touch. Are you disappointment with the acc performance?
Yes, 1660ti is newer, got some more modern features and is cheaper everywhere I looked.
Only thing is that it got only 6gb of vram but honestly.. When my 1070 goes above 6gb, the fps go south too much anyway...
Most games are around 4gb even at 3440x1440.
Only wreckfest runs straight into full 8gb but honestly it seems like a memory leak and fps don't drop even though it runs into the maximum of my card.
Weird game.
Witcher 3, acc, ac, raceroom. All below 4gb for me!
About cpu and gpu limit:
If the graphics card goes to 99+ % it's indeed which is limiting.
However if the graphics card is not at 99% or close to this and you don't have a fps limiter active (or vsync), then it's your cpu.
Although your cpu might be at around 30% load, it's still the limit.
That's, as I've written about 50x on this forum now and I start to feel like "cpu limit missionary", lol, down to the "single thread performance limit".
Or simpler: you have 4 cores, the game runs on 2-3 threads. Ac and raceroom only on 1-2.
It simply can't use all 4 cores to the full extend. Windows does a good job at shuffling the load across all cores in such a speed that it looks like all cores are used nicely but really, it's just an average.
In reality it's a bit like: core 1=100%, core2=0% and then core 2=100% but core 1= 0% etc.
With a ryzen 1800x you can be stuck at 20% cpu load since you have a sh*t load of cores but low single thread performance.
