Where is your bottleneck? GPU Utilization Tool - nTune

[Xzin]

This only helps if you actually HAVE a system put together and only if you run nVidia cards but it can give you a "task manager" style vie of your GPU usage. WoW tends to be a GPU limited game but there are other constraints too (like memory and CPU). This should help people get a good view into what exactly their GPU is doing and if it is constantly being maxed out or not.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.54.00.html

NVIDIA nTune

Supported OSes:
Windows XP (32-bit),
Windows XP x64 Edition
Windows Vista (32-bit)
Windows Vista x64 Edition

Version: 5.05.54.00
Release Date: September 19, 2007

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File Size: 42.2 MB

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Overview:

NVIDIA® nTune is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels. Overclock your system for highest performance or underclock it for near silent operation. All changes are performed within the Microsoft® Windows® interface – enabling full functionality without the need to make changes in the BIOS and reboot your system.

[keyclone]

nice find ! :thumbsup:

[Gallo]

Not only a good bottleneck-finding tool... but also a good tool to determine the highest amount of clients able to run on a machine I'd imagine.

[keyclone]

how would you figure that out... without running multiple clients and this tool at the same time?

[Gallo]

Thats exactly how you would figure it out. Open this tool, and start opening new clients until you see GPU usage or something in Task Manager going through the roof :)

[torytrae]

Sweeeet ... thanks for this. Gonna try it out this evening :)

[elo]

Now if only they had a Linux version as well it'd be great for us at work.

[zanthor]

This only helps if you actually HAVE a system put together and only if you run nVidia cards but it can give you a "task manager" style vie of your GPU usage. WoW tends to be a GPU limited game but there are other constraints too (like memory and CPU). This should help people get a good view into what exactly their GPU is doing and if it is constantly being maxed out or not.

Where is the GPU usage? It shows GPU temp, but that doesn't tell you if you are bottlenecked, just if it's hard well and your cooling sucks...

[Zite83]

I've been using this software for awhile now, I use it mainly to overclock my video card :P Though I figured out that I can't really push it more than 100+ Mhz

[zanthor]

Where is the GPU usage? It shows GPU temp, but that doesn't tell you if you are bottlenecked, just if it's hard well and your cooling sucks...So am I on crack and just not seeing it, or is there not a GPU utilization meter here?

[Khazrael]

Very awesome find Xzin, I used it last night and set it to "Fine Tune" my machine. Now it's got my quad core from 2.4 to 2.83 or some such. Pretty snazzy.

[Xzin]

Hmm... NTune does not seem to be able to display the actual GPU clock. I thought it could..... I have a tool on my machine that DOES show it, just like a normal task manager. It may be specific to my motherboard but let me check and I will add it to the first post.