GPU Utilization at 100% in a game. Bitcoin Miner or just poor specs optimizaiton?

[NoticedAlarm]

I was playing this random game I found, it started getting laggy so I checked my FPS. My GPU was using 100%. Is this a bitcoin miner or something wrong with the game's optimization?

[Omega]

You want 100% GPU utilization in games, it means the GPU is running at full capacity and is putting as many images on the screen as possible. It means the GPU is not being limited in performance by other components in the system.

[NoticedAlarm]

Originally posted by Omega:

You want 100% GPU utilization in games, it means the GPU is running at full capacity and is putting as many images on the screen as possible. It means the GPU is not being limited in performance by other components in the system.

Oh alright, thank you!

[_I_]

miner malware would keep the gpu at 100% when not gaming

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea to rule out malware, pay attention to GPU Usage in Task Manager when not running something that uses it much, like Games for example.

[hassans]

mine just gets hot for no reason and shuts off the pc and when i launch a game it’s at 100% on task manager the you

[hassans]

the gpu *

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Originally posted by Omega:

You want 100% GPU utilization in games, it means the GPU is running at full capacity and is putting as many images on the screen as possible. It means the GPU is not being limited in performance by other components in the system.

That's actually NOT the way you want to run a computer! Doing this just causes excessive waste heat, excessive power usage and loud fans on the video card for no reason. In reality we should be making the video card use the least amount of utilization possible to run the game.

Running a video card at 100% always is just bad for many reasons.

[GunsForBucks]

Typically you will see this in games that don't limit frame rates and it just pushes the card to whatever it can do even if it is useless to do so.

Just force a frame cap to your refresh rate and it should be normal.

[A&A]

If your GPU is the bottleneck, yes.

[_I_]

if its at 100% and not acceptable fps, lower game settings

[Omega]

Originally posted by Shaggin'Wagon:

Originally posted by Omega:

You want 100% GPU utilization in games, it means the GPU is running at full capacity and is putting as many images on the screen as possible. It means the GPU is not being limited in performance by other components in the system.

That's actually NOT the way you want to run a computer! Doing this just causes excessive waste heat, excessive power usage and loud fans on the video card for no reason. In reality we should be making the video card use the least amount of utilization possible to run the game.

Running a video card at 100% always is just bad for many reasons.

If you care about power usage you should limit the GPU power limit and/or lower the voltage instead of attempting to artificially lower the GPU usage.

[GunsForBucks]

My two cents for what it's worth.

I don't like to 100% anything. At that point it is throttling and in games you can get micro stuttering and stuff.

I would put the frame rate cap to what the monitor could handle.
If that is done already then as bag head suggested lower graphics settings.

Lower them just to the point they are not having to throttle themselves and can run smooth.

Make sure you keep a clean machine if you run it that way though.. giving yourself some overhead gives you some variance there too.

[_I_]

gpu is designed to run at 100%
just like cpu cores, they can go over 100% when turbo/boost clocks are enabled

if the gpu is at 100% and throttling, then its poor cooling or a very poor gpu pcb design

[Shaggin'Wagon]

Originally posted by Omega:

If you care about power usage you should limit the GPU power limit and/or lower the voltage instead of attempting to artificially lower the GPU usage.

Or.. ya know.. the normal way to play games... just limit the video card to our monitor's maximum refresh rate with an FPS cap so it's not running 100% usage all the time.

[Omega]

Originally posted by Shaggin'Wagon:

Originally posted by Omega:

If you care about power usage you should limit the GPU power limit and/or lower the voltage instead of attempting to artificially lower the GPU usage.

Or.. ya know.. the normal way to play games... just limit the video card to our monitor's maximum refresh rate with an FPS cap so it's not running 100% usage all the time.

Vsync adds latency.

And on top of that nowadays budget entry level LCD panels are 165Hz or higher, only select games will run games at 165fps or above.