Quantifying ASUS GPU bottlenecks under extreme load
To figure out if the CPU or GPU was choking, I set up a worst-case scenario. In the 2026-ASUS-BEM test environment, I ran a 3DMark stress test for 30 minutes. The logs showed CPU cores staying between 75℃ - 79℃, but the frame curve took a nosedive in complex areas. I killed all background auto-update services and flipped the BIOS power plan to High Performance. GamePP recorded an average FPS boost of 19% - 23%, with frame time variance tightening to under 3ms. This kind of quantitative data is way more useful than just looking at average FPS. Just keep in mind that benchmark results still differ from real gameplay by about 5% - 8%, especially when fast-traveling across the map where I still feel some micro-stutter, likely because the SSD random read peaks are hitting a ceiling.
