How to fix CPU and GPU bottlenecking on a gaming PC
pcinvasion.comOne of the age old questions from PC gamers is how to fix, or preferably, avoid CPU and GPU performance bottlenecking on a PC. Depending on who you ask, it can be a simple or complex topic to explain. There’s also a lot of conflicting opinions out there, so this guide will set things straight for you.
In this article, we’ll first cover the basics and then get more into the details. With these tips and principles in mind, you’ll know how to fix the CPU and GPU bottlenecking in your gaming PC via upgrades, or make a better decision on a new system configuration. This article does focus on desktop PCs since they are often custom built and can be easily reconfigured, but there’s useful info and a few tips for laptop users as well.
The term bottlenecking is commonly used in PC gaming to refer to a specific part of the system configuration that is subpar in relation to the rest of the components. It results in overall substandard performance relative to what each individual piece of hardware should be capable of. A bottleneck can be mild or severe in how it affects the overall capability of the system to perform in games.
It’s important to remember that your gaming PC is a system composed of many different components that support one another to render complex scenes and events with high quality graphics and responsive gameplay. The CPU, GPU, system DRAM, video RAM, cooling solutions, the motherboard, cables/connections, and even power delivery play a part in overall system performance. Storage devices will also play a part in system performance in future games that leverage the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 SSDs in new ways.
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