CPU usage is higher than GPU usage

[sTanchuu]

My CPU usage is 100% almost all the time, sometimes it goes to 95% or so, but my GPU usage is only around 70-80%, and sometime its less than 70%.
How are your GPU/CPU usage playing the game?
Is this normal?

My PC specs are:
RTX 3070
Ryzen 5 3600x
16GB Ram 3200 cl16
1TB NVME Samsung

[micat0ne]

Same there
Acer Nitro 5
I5 2,5Ghz
Geforce GTX 1650 4Mo
16Go Ram

Game setup : full low.

Et les nuanceurs mettent un temps infini à charger. après 20 min d'attente à pisser sur l'ordi pour le refroidir, ça avait a peine avancé de 2%

[episoder]

absolutely normal. the game is a playstation5 port. those are 8 cores. it's cpu heavy and the main bottleneck. it's busy with the game and rendering setup, so it can't feed more to your gpu to do. as long as you get 60 fps out of it you should be happy. this is the main target. ofc you can crank up the graphics if it's not cpu dependent.

[Lince_SPAIN]

Originally posted by episoder:

absolutely normal. the game is a playstation5 port. those are 8 cores. it's cpu heavy and the main bottleneck. it's busy with the game and rendering setup, so it can't feed more your gpu todo. as long as you get 60 fps out of it you should be happy.

I don't think you know that for games the PS5 can only access 6 cores, the rest are reserved for the OS and other system functions. On top of that those cores are an old, low-power mobile Zen 2 design, cannot even be compared to a modern PC CPU.

If you're looking for a reason why the PC ports run badly and/or are CPU bottlenecked is because devs are not using DirectStorage for PC to move assets quickly from storage devices into VRAM, they're using system RAM as an intermediate step and the CPU to decompress and stream the assets the game requests. Consoles do this much, much faster as they're either using a hardware solution such as an ASIC coprocessor (PS5) or DirectStorage for Xbox. This is why a 13900K with fast DDR5 (specially the DDR5 part) can brute force through the issues.

It would be a dream come true for PC players if devs implemented DirectStorage as an option for these PS5 titles, however it takes a lot of time and resources to implement correctly and then again the budget for PC ports is rather limited.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by episoder:

absolutely normal. the game is a playstation5 port. those are 8 cores. it's cpu heavy and the main bottleneck. it's busy with the game and rendering setup, so it can't feed more to your gpu to do. as long as you get 60 fps out of it you should be happy. this is the main target. ofc you can crank up the graphics if it's not cpu dependent.

I have an 8-core 5800x and get anywhere from 2-5% CPU usage playing this game.

[MrK1K3]

Originally posted by 'InsoliNi:

My CPU usage is 100% almost all the time, sometimes it goes to 95% or so, but my GPU usage is only around 70-80%, and sometime its less than 70%.
How are your GPU/CPU usage playing the game?
Is this normal?

My PC specs are:
RTX 3070
Ryzen 5 3600x
16GB Ram 3200 cl16
1TB NVME Samsung

i have an 8700k at 4.8 ghz i think its pretty much the same to your cpu and i have the same issue as you, 80% to 90% cpu usage when theres npcs on screen, causing minor dips

[poupb99]

Ryzen 9 5900x
RTX 3070
16GB ram 3200
and standard SSD
GPU usage is around 70-80& with DLSS on quality 1440p
and CPU is at around 5-6% usage
What i found interesting is that after playing like haf an hour GPU usage goes up to 100% and fps drops down from 75 avg. on high to 58-66 fps and stutter begins, and if I turn all settings to medium and then again to high GPU usage goes back to 70-80% and fps comes back to normal

[episoder]

Originally posted by Lince_SPAIN:

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wasn't aware ps5 titles could only use 6 cores. interesting. more ez then. comparing the ps5 cpu with the 3600x they are the same 6 cores that run the game. i'm running 6 mobile zen2 cores too. ofc not having decompression asics put's more strain on the cpu. makes even more sense why it's busy then.

[episoder]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

8-core 5800x 2-5% CPU usage

Originally posted by poupb99:

Ryzen 9 5900x around 5-6% usage

possible the 5000 series has some form of asic blocks that help decompression? wouldn't be surprised why your loads are so low.