[Jugdriver]

Thanks Flanker, 40% is inline with that I thought you would say. Mine is running at 25%-30% and thus my benchmarks in The Black Death are lower than yours. Well let’s hope the game optimization, and better drivers are able to make the cards work to their full potential. I at least know what a big part of the problem is; Shadows are obviously a huge hit to my CPU (even though only one core is really being taxed). I am seriously hoping that the Devs can offload the hit that shadows produce on my CPU onto my GPU which is not really working very hard.

The ironic part is that I bought an AMD CPU and AMD/ATI cards because of how AMD were touting them working together for a better gaming experience and your Intel i5 2500K is handily doing a better a better job of working with the 7970 card, DAMN MARKETING!

@ Editor, I have one core working at 80% to 95% but the other four (I run the game on five of the six cores) are cruising along at 25%, there is no doubt COD is doing a terrible (if any) job of utilizing my other cores. I was looking at benchmarks last night and most show the i5 2500K about 12% faster than my 1090T, but I also have a slight overclock to 3.4ghz (all cores) and my memory is going at 1700mhz so I would say the difference in something like 3Dmark between our two processors would be under 10%. Where the i5 2500K does crush my 1090T is in memory read/write speed, it is almost double, and even though I am not a computer engineer this obviously has something to do with its significant performance advantage, especially with regards to shadows. I guess only time will tell if COD’s optimization and improved Catalyst will allow for more of my CPU and GPU to be utilized.

JD
AKA_MattE