Can lowering resolution increase fps if I’m purely cpu bottlenecked?

[COWZYOV]

My cpu load when gaming is always 100%, while everything else always stays at about 50%; is there any point in lowering resolution, or are the fps gains I get from it coincidental or some kind of placebo effect?

[mimizukari]

CPU bottleneck = you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Nothing you can do, GG.

GPU bottleneck = lower resolution and put weight on your CPU.

Your CPU should be the strongest between CPU/GPU, always. that's why I have an i9-10900X with my TITAN when 9700K would've been just fine in most cases

[COWZYOV]

It seems to work, but anyone know an explanation for it?

[COWZYOV]

Yup, just ran a benchmark (twice)...
First time, at low resolution, got 63.8 average fps
Second time, at slightly higher resolution, 59.2 fps

Granted, both were in windowed mode and using “upscaled”/“supersampled” resolutions...
But I don’t think that makes a difference, as neither time did gpu/ram usage hit 100% at all (and cpu usage was at 100% the whole time).

[COWZYOV]

Anyone else have some kind of confirmation or knows the reasoning behind this phenomenon?

[-V-]

Yes.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by AÀÁÂÄÆÃÅĀ:

Yup, just ran a benchmark (twice)...
First time, at low resolution, got 63.8 average fps
Second time, at slightly higher resolution, 59.2 fps

Granted, both were in windowed mode and using “upscaled”/“supersampled” resolutions...
But I don’t think that makes a difference, as neither time did gpu/ram usage hit 100% at all (and cpu usage was at 100% the whole time).

The deviance is your GPU being able to calculate things a modicum better, AKA, you have not so good hardware right now, dude.

[Plaid]

The GPU is tasked with rendering the pixels? I think that's the answer, lol.
(why did I form it as a question)

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

Reducing the resolution have a very small impact in how much cpu is being used , some other graphic setting may have Impact on how much the cpu is being used by the game but it's depend on which game you're playing.