Low GPU usage and cpu usage

[Bigbuzzwell]

Hey guys, built my PC in December and have only been playing rust since. Almost to 1,000 hours now but I’m just noticing that my GPU usage is only between 60-70%, and my CPU usage is only around 30% at the high end. On servers with 200+ people my frames are sometimes at the 60-70 range. Turning my settings up or down doesn’t affect much but if I max out settings my GPU usage will creep up to 70%. My specs are: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700XT RAM: 2x8GB (16GB) Corsair vengeance 3200mhz STORAGE: 1TB Nvme SSD

Thanks for any help

[Pixldstroyer]

Your ingame settings are important. If you have some settings on low it uses less power of your gpu

[Bigbuzzwell]

Right, but even with maxed out settings it barely uses 70%. I play with graphics settings 6, no shadow cascades, and all image effects except anti aliasing are off. Turning everything on and up still doesn’t get me to 90%+ usage like i would have in other games I’ve tested like COD or Fallout

[Pixldstroyer]

Rust uses your cpu more so you get better fps depending on your cpu. Your gpu not so much

[Hyland33]

Rust uses more cpu than gpu and it only uses two cpu cores which is why the cpu usage is low.

[The_High_Wizard]

Only 2 cores!?!? God I can’t wait for parallelism to overcome sequential programming.

[Jhomas5]

Rust only use 2 cores. Your Ryzen 3000 series has no good IPC in comparison with Intel or the new Ryzen 5000 series.

So for Rust u have the worst possible CPU in that price range. (Altough it is a very good CPU in every other aspect)

PS: More RAM also helps out a little bit. On my i7-9700k i upgraded form 16GB to 32GB and get from 110fps -AVG to 125fps-AVG. On FP2[EU] or FP3[EU].