The Physics of PC Bottlenecks: Frame Pacing, Resolution Scaling, and Pipeline Saturation
When diagnosing computer performance, the term “bottleneck” is frequently thrown around on forums and message boards as a generic buzzword to describe why a system is underperforming. For decades, the industry has relied on simplistic, single-number percentage calculators that attempt to summarize the relationship between a processor and a graphics card. However, from a systems…