Higher gpu usage on some user in youtube in Far Cry 6. Can recording apps raise gpu usage?

Hi. I have 12900K stock,Rtx 4090 stock,2x16 GB DDR4 3600mhz.

I have an question.If software used to record the gameplay:

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If someone use that programs to record it will raise gpu load on screen display?

I ask because someone here ( link ) have 85-90% usage on FC6 on 1440P when i get only 60%. And other youtubers with 12900K and 4090 have the same 60% usage on 1440P like me.

Link with that high gpu usage ,strange:

its not ram,not oc not.

The guy was recording the video via the GPU which led to a higher load?

NVENC will leech off some GPU resources
But that kinda discrepancy, might be settings/software(s) affiliated to capture

so is possible that hes real usage was 60%?

No matter what encoding, there will be some bandwidth used for frame buffer copy.

so gpu higher?

Shouldn’t make a terrible difference. Reported or not, it’s a performance difference.

GPU reported usage difference should be less than 4% from recording on the GPU vs CPU.
GPU usage will vary in games, depending on what’s going on. This is perfectly normal and not something to be concerned with at all in any way. If your performance is fine, everything is fine, and you should put it far from your mind and play the game.

As for why, the GPU can only work as quickly as it can be sent data to work on. The game must perform many calculations of logic, AI, visibility checks(the big one), and then sort everything out to be sent to the GPU, so that it can efficiently draw everything as quickly as it’s able to. If the CPU isn’t fast enough to do this at the rate the GPU can work at, which is extremely common and perfectly normal and not anything to be concerned with, then the GPU usage will drop, and in some cases, the clockspeed and voltage will drop. This is normal and even preferable when this happens, as it will save you some watts off your power billl.
What makes the GPU usage vary from game to game or moment to moment is simply the amount of work that the CPU needs to do for the GPU, and how effectively it can do that work. In many cases, only one or two CPU cores can work as hard as they can, with another few cores worth of work that can be done across a larger number of cores, resulting in both low CPU and GPU usage. This is a perfectly normal CPU limited performance scenario and should not cause any kind of alarm whatsoever.

Don’t overthink these things, because it’s not important. Let your computer do it’s work in peace, and enjoy your magic picture show.

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