Guides New CPU or GPU? FPS monitor

[DemonLord]

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New CPU or GPU? FPS monitor - FPS monitor

Here is good FPS monitor which can tell you where is the bottleneck of your system.

You can see which graphical setting affects to, CPU or Video card. To get better quality with same FPS, or what you need to turn off to get more FPS.

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Basically you need to look at second graph.
Frame Time - is your CPU render time to get one frame, if it's higher, then your GPU underloaded.
GPU Busy...

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[Sally Whitemane]

Can recommend this too. Used it since the GamersNexus video was published a few weeks ago.
For an overlay I now prefer this over MSI Afterburner plus the extra RivaTuner Statistic thingy.

The tool did handle my somewhat exotic multi GPU configurations without problems - even though it's still in beta.
Have not used it for VAM yet, but for other games to optimize graphic settings.
For example in Starfield I've decided to drop the AI resolution scaling from 70% to only 50%@4K to lower RTX 3090 power draw from 300+ Watt to ~150 Watt. A decision made mainly to avoid heating up the room more in this hot summer.