CPU limited with 7800 / 9800 / 9950 X3d ?

[Flameout777]

I have a 7800x3d with a 4090 and 64gb ram having just started using frame rate display it shows I'm CPU limited, I am guessing this is normal?

If you have a 9800x3d or 9950x3d are you still Cpu limited?

[niru27]

In VR the fps counter lies

Enable VSync and see what it says

[Flameout777]

Thanks did as suggested now says CPU bound rendering thread

[TED]

I get the same with a 9800x3d and never fully understood why.

[Hiob]

There are some elementary things to understand. 

a) you will Always be limited by something. No matter how potent your hardware.

b) wether it is your GPU or CPU at any given time is circumstantial. It depends on scenario and settings.

c) VR puts much more strain (relative) on the CPU than 2D

d) if you haven any fps-limit enabled, it can muddy the waters. Depending on which kind of fps-limiter you use (in game or external) it will be enforced either by the CPU or the GPU, and will be reported as the limiting factor accordingly.

E.g. the default in-game fps limit is set to 180 if I’m not mistaken. If your GPU AND CPU could deliver more frames, it would be reported as CPU limited.

If you would on the other hand enforce a lower limit, say 120 fps via the nvidia driver, it would be reported as GPU limited.

[speed-of-heat]

also with the FPS counter, it says CPU limited ... what it means is not really that the CPU is limited; rather DCS just can't use any more CPU processing power... which is different, it will likely be the case that some CPU cores will still not be fully utilised, faster individual core performance will help some... but ultimately you will as @Hiob says be limited by something... a couple of things that *WONT* change the CPU limited status, is making sure that DCS does not use core 0/1 (which is what windows uses by default) and the same with other DCS performance related processes like your VR stack or voice attack , beyond that other than a CPU with faster cores not much can be done by us