Is this a Bottleneck??????

[born-confused]

So, here are some of my screenshots I took from battlefield 4 and valley benchmarks.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#gerlcgjouve0yql
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#afhr7af1uoah39l
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#9uc9cdf3ngi72tc

The gpu usage was fine on valley benchmarks at 99%. Now, before you read further, clear this up for me. Is it possible that cpu works fine with gpu in one program and gives 99% gpu usage and may bottleneck in other program????

Now, here are my some screenshots from battlefield frm low to ultra respectively...
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#ukd1thm8xwyyc18
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#8llzfckcddefisc
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#vtq017i7o0bhcko
http://www.mediafire.com/view/2o6dr2ph2l5qc/bf4#p7kibqlkhhl0x7i

now as you can see the gpu usage went with Graphical preset. So, can any1 tell me what is happening here?
BTW the cpu usage doesn't seems to change, it stays around 75ish
is this a bottleneck???????????
PC Specs:
Amd Phenom || X4 840, 3.20GHz, Stock
8GB Ram
nVidia Geforce Gtx 570, Stock

 

[Techhog]

I'm confused. What's the problem here, exactly? Everything looks just fine to me. Were you expecting BF4 to stress your GPU as much as the Valley benchmark? The whole point of a benchmark like that is that it stresses your GPU more than a game would (or any current game at least) so that it can test your GPU's full potential. BF4 is only going to load your GPU as much as it needs to. Since neither your CPU nor your CPU is hitting 100%, you don't have a bottleneck, and really you shouldn't at such a low resolution. Do you really play like that normally?

 

[BrightCandle]

CPU usage is seriously misleading, once you realise that its a lot easier to understand pictures like this. Games don't generally get good multithreaded usage and they are always synchronised on a single thread at the end of a frame. You are CPU limited of that I have no doubt based on the figures provided, this is a game that really loves its CPU performance and scales with it.

 

[Techhog]

CPU usage is seriously misleading, once you realise that its a lot easier to understand pictures like this. Games don't generally get good multithreaded usage and they are always synchronised on a single thread at the end of a frame. You are CPU limited of that I have no doubt based on the figures provided, this is a game that really loves its CPU performance and scales with it.

Ahhhhh yeah, that's a good point. OP, you should look at the individual core utilization here. That said, it looks like you're getting good frame rates, so I'm still not sure if there's a big issue unless you want to play at a higher resolution, which would shift the bottleneck to the GPU anyway.