CPU Bottleneck Explained & RTX 4090 MW2 & Warzone 2 

misconception: the 4090 is utilized more than 1%. Probably around 40-60%. But the CPU bottlenecks it 99% of the tiime, meaning it always takes longer for the cpu to calculate each frames input, physics, ... than for the gpu to render the frame

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I mean putting a 4090 on 1080p should be illegal 😬😂

Best analogy for bottlenecking I have ever heard. Not sure if you’ve done this, but a tiktok or short of that explanation would help a TON of people

Learned quite a bit from this one, can't believe that the 5950x is bottlenecked omg 😂 that 4090 is insane!

Hey man! Very good explanation, probably the best I have seen yet! Very informative

Wow, you just explained bottlenecking to me better than any other channel, subbed

Great explanation my guy!

I have the Asus STRIX RTX 4090 OC in White and it looks amazing too. ❤

somethings going on, went down a rabbit hole, and some people are getting 500+ cpu frames on a 13900, while others on identical systems get same ballpark as you 240-280.

Kinda funny how people call it a "bottleneck problem" when we are talking about frame times in the 2-3 ms range, which does effectively *nothing* to the overall game input lag. It's just silly emotion-evoking phraseology under the expectation of "unlimited fps". But in reality, you are not searching "unlimited FPS"; but that sweet spot, where CPU and GPU give you max FPS __at your preferred resolution__. And when that sweet spot is reached, it doesn't matter if your CPU or your GPU are snoring. All you get when your CPU is at 99% is free details. Just increase render quality, until your FPS get impaced too much and boom - enjoy high FPS and non-shitty graphics at the same time.

you can adjust how many threads COD uses if you havent yet.

Best explanation 👌 I actually understood this for the most part

Its not only using 1% of the gpu, that you got totally wrong

Lots of iffy information here. First the 5950x is not exactly a beast for gaming. Second, the GPU utilization is not 1% and the CPU is not 99%. Also the “4090 is the GPU you want.” = super cringe and out of touch especially right now, and I do own one.

Good video! I’m curious as to why you didn’t run the test in the native resolution since the bottleneck is so large with the 4090. Would this alleviate some of the bottleneck? Also, would the bottle neck be the same at higher resolutions (1440p, 4K, etc)?

Love the videos

1% use at 230fps.....you shouldnt believe everything some piece of software says LOL :D the 4090 is NOT CAPABLE of pushing over 20.000 fps in cod at 1080p. ...maybe at 180p^^

Genuinely helpful video brother, keep up the great work.

Excellent video

Great explanation for my smooth brain. Good work.

but in some games i dont have a bottleneck? what does that mean? i have a 20-30% bottleneck on mw2/3 on 1080p " I5-12400f / Rx6700xt " " low/ high settings " on forza horizon5 and red dead2 i have no bottleneck... thats weird

Why can't all youtube videos be this informative? Explaining how it actually works, not just showing some benchmark results and stuff. Great video dude

the 7950x3d with 4090 does not have bottleneck

I've got a 7950X and a 4090 and I have a huge CPU Bottleneck on the Cod Benchmark.

Render Resolution is 1472x832. Why? And why AMD FSR?

My 7900x3d and 7900xtx in 1080p gets 425fps in the benchmark and 380fps in 1440p

I Recently upgrade my ancient's i7-3770 (Non K) GPU (MSI Armor RX 580 4GB) to MSI Mech 2X RX 6700 XT 12GB My Rig is: Asus P8Z77M Mobo with Modded BIOS to Support boot from Nvme, i7-3770 (Non K), 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz, RX 580 4GB/ RX 6700XT 12GB, Samsung 980 Pro (Nvme) My Results on the games im playing: 7 Days to Die - 45-55fps intown // 75-80fps 6700XT X4 suit, space - 44-45fps /// 64-68 6700xt X4 suit, space - 58-61fps (fsr 1.0 quality) /// 69-75 6700xt path of exile 80-90fps /// 120-160fps 6700XT No Mans sky - 25-30fps /// 115 6700XT NOTE: Im using custom Win10 distro (ggOS)

I got ryzen 5 3600x and rx6800xt... Got bottleneck the professor is to slow for the card on warzone...My cpu time is 11 but my gpu is 3... I think warzone is very demanding cpu game... Ram is oc to 3733 Processor is also oc... Still can't do it!

So, I just ran the WZ benchmark and got 1% for my brand new Gigabyte 4080 Gaming OC, and 99% for my i7-9700K cpu. Obviously the reason why my frames are still at around 120 in WZ. (Which really had me pissed because thats what I was getting with my old 2080 card in WZ. TF?) My issue now is I clearly need to upgrade my cpu (and mobo, and ram to DDR5) but I'm broke after getting the 4080. Whats the lowest price cpu that would at least allow me to increase my frames in WZ, as well as giving me a little bit of future proofing, since I'll be in debt for quite a while 😂?

Yes, but what about to fix the bottleneck?

What is the perfect percentages to have in the last two boxes please.

So I have a I3 10100F paired with a RTX 3060TI. Now this sounds like the recipe for disaster but I assure you not. My PC only seems to bottleneck in call of duty, almost as if there some kind of in-game limit. My CPU NEVER runs more than 25% and my GPU NEVER runs more than 50% in game. But in loading screens and main menu my GPU can run at 80% as well as my CPU at 50%. Other games like Apex legends and Rocket League cruise. I run about 500FPS on Rocket League and cruise on 145FPS on Apex at ULTRA graphics. Apex Legends pushes my GPU to average at around 70-80% forcing more usage therefore increasing my FPS, but my PC almost seems like it doesn't care and wants to only produce 40FPS in Call of duty Modern warfare (Warzone 2). Please assist me of you care.

4090 at 1 percent? That's impossible and I don't understand why you say that

my i7 12700f bottlenecked my 3070ti somehow so frustrating now i lost 80-60 frames done everything possible heard an os restart might be my only solution

I play on 1440p 240hz i have an i9-13900k gigabyte 4090 6800mhz ddr5 ram im always 70%+ bottlenecked by the cpu but still need to frame cap at 240 honestly looking into a 4k gaming monitor to actually get my money's worth of all my pc components

if warzone implemented direct storage, things would be better i think

You have a ram timings bottleneck.

Nice explanation

I wanna get a 4090, but the potential house fire... numsayin?

Hi would I get a bottleneck with the ryzen 9 5900x with the RTX 4080?

Sooooo...i can play with gtx1660ti with i5 3450

Maybe I missed it but I have a 3090 and my cpu is 98% GPU 2% what should I be doing? Also, I get power cards and cpu but it seems this game is causing the problem purposely, I played cod and never have I had this issue until this game!

I'm a noob so bare with me here. If im getting good frames with something like a 5800x and a 4090 but im using 1080p and missing out on those extra frames since i didnt upgrade my cpu, your saying at 1080p even though im getting better performance than 1440p and 4k , it will stutter at 1080p because of high cpu usage? like i dont understand the term bottleneck clearly it dosent make sense when people say "your bottlenecked at 1080p" i mean huh? arent i getting more fps at 1080p than 1440p and higher? Than why does it matter?

so if the 5950x cant handle the 4090 my 5900x stands no chance so i might as well stay with 3090 then right?

I noticed your "render resolution" is well below 1920x1080 is this affecting your bottleneck?

U wasnt rendering in 1080p tho u had scaling on so it will effect the result more

So are you saying the only solution to CPU bottleneck is to upgrade cpu? I have an i7-10700f / 4070ti.. thank you for the video

I didn’t click the link, I just stared at your face at the end :)

I only bottle neck in mw2 can tell me how to fix it

Is a 13700k ok for a 4090 in 1440p?

I don't see 200fps as a bottleneck. Maybe get a game that demands more

This game is also CPU intensive tracking the game world and 50+ other players.

Would the Amd 7800x3d paired with the 4090 bottle neck? The way the new Amd CPU’s work higher core CPU’s like the ryzen 9 7900x3d/7950x3d get cut to 8 cores for gaming. But AMD’s CPU’s are super efficient. Would it be better to go with a different GPU when using AMD CPU’s?

okay guys i need a little bit of help, ive been fine for years playing rocket league on my pc set-up and suddenly i start lagging. I bought myself a new 4k monitor being the first step to 4k gaming (not sure if its the monitors issue or just coincidence) like in this video i tested all the stats when playing a match in rocket league and it says that GPU runs no lower then 60% and as high as 85%, then my CPU isnt going no higher then 30% and my memory usage is at 60%. So if ive understood it correctly then the bottleneck would be my GPU?

I have a Nvidia rtx 4090 and a i9-13900kf any idea why I am capping off at 136FPS? I even tried putting all the settings to default

If I'm going to be streaming/playing (13900K + RTX4090): Is it better to be playing the game at 4k or 1440p?

I have about the same system with a x570 dark hero and a 5900x with the msi trio 4090 and I play at 4k and put the settings basically to the lowest and I only get about 120 fps. But it realy doesn't mater what I run the settings at from 1080p low or high all the way to 4k low or high the fps stays around the same either way. Sucks.

Perfect video ,If it's ok I would like to ask ,i have 4090rtx and i913900k but I'm getting low fps at mw2 on 2500x1440..i see that it's a bottleneck only 2% bitween those two at internet but in game it says more than 40%...wig on???😢

i have a 4070 and play warzone in FHD. Which cpu do i need to play with over 200FPS. now i have a i9 11900kf and have 160 fps on the new map urzikstan. Can anybody help me ?

Bottleneck with the king of cpu two years ago wtf?😂😂

Thanks for the video ❤ but if i use a 5950x with 4090 in 1440p ? Technicaly i can get more fps because 1440p use more the gpu than cpu ??

So the solution is getting a better processor? I have the same issue, i have a ryzen 9 5950x paired with a 3080 i was getting 115 fps, now with a 4090 im getting 120 fps :( I guess is time to get a new mobo with a ryzen 9 7950x or i9 13900k :/

With warzone 2 highest fps being the goal would it better to upgrade cpu or gpu (currently running 5950x w/ 3090? Curious how much of a boost I’d get going with the 5800x3d as that seems like the best value. Thoughts?

Ive got a 5950x with 3080. They saying AMD Gpu's are performing better on warzone, is that true? I wanted to go with a 4090 and 13900k, but maybe i should go with a 13900k and 7900xtx. Any thoughts on that? Loved the video

Makes sense lol i guess I shouldve been more patient and invested into the cpu lol. I got an i7-11700kf cuz i was so impatient lol

ok thats great can u also run afterburner cpu % and temp in order to confirm benchamrk results 99 to 1 ? you propobly on 30 % cpu activation with 230 fps, so the question is can will unblucking cpu in one way or another increases fps ?

Start with your Render Resolution 😂

Hi! Do you think i9 13900kf create bottleneck with tuf 4090 oc in 2k game (i play only fps game). Thank you!!

i have cpu 1% and 99% gpu

Whats stupid is that you can literally run lets say i9 14900kf and 4070 ti and have more fps than runing example 4090 and 5950 and thats because of cpu bottleneck...Stupid warzone uses so much cpu its literally more important to have top of the line cpu rather thsn card...There is 4070 4080 builds runing 300-350fps in 1440p and this guy is strugling to hit 250fps with 4090 thsts becausr amd 5950 is a complete garbage compared to 13900 or better yet 14900kf

my bottleneck is 50/50 (i9-10850k/7900 xt @ 1440p 165htz) ... so 50/50 is good right? lol ty

Do you think its possible to get a CPU that is poweful enough for a 50/50 bottle neck with the 4090 (like with the 3090 benchmark)?

I git 4070 super and i5 12400 and it said 50 50 bottleneck is that cause weak cpu and what cpu would u recommend intel lga 1700

What's testing software is this?

4:10 the 4090 is not at 1% its just that the gpu bottleneck is 1% or pretty much none, press alt+r or use msi afterburner to see gpu usage and stop saying things that dont make sense please, and why the fk did you buy a 4090 for 1080p lol.

How is your benckmark so bad? I have more FPS with m 3080 ti than you with your 4090 lol

Hey i've got 5600x and rtx 4090, im getting like 100fps in 1080p what am i doing wrong? Yes I know i should play higher res and better cpu but for now I wont upgrade it, is there something i can do to get more frames? It looks like its something with the game

Yooo 4090 is feesh with this cpu he smashed

El juego peor hecho! Peor que wz1!

You saying every cpu will be bottlenecked is 100% wrong