On my previous desktop computer (GTX 745) the GPU would run at between 70 and 100 percent.  I recently upgraded to a laptop with a GTX 1660 (over 200% faster then the GTX 745 according to user benchmark).

While not as big of an FPS increase as I would have ideally liked, there is a noticeable frame rate increase, but now the GPU only runs at around 30 to 40 percent as seen in task manager.  Is there a way to tell the GPU to "work harder" per se to get more FPS?  Or does it not work that way?

Interested in what the GPU gurus have to say.

Thanks.

Depends upon what programs you are using.  MicroSoft FSX and their earlier sims did not use the GPU much at all, relying upon a fast CPU to do most of the image processing.  With FSX and earlier MS flight sims, the GPU will work harder when using a high screen resolution and high image anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering settings, but it still does not take an ultra fast GPU to run FSX.  Prepar3D version 5 and MicroSoft's new MSFS sim do place more of the processing load on the GPU.

39 minutes ago, stans said:

Depends upon what programs you are using.  MicroSoft FSX and their earlier sims did not use the GPU much at all, relying upon a fast CPU to do most of the image processing.  With FSX and earlier MS flight sims, the GPU will work harder when using a high screen resolution and high image anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering settings, but it still does not take an ultra fast GPU to run FSX.  Prepar3D version 5 and MicroSoft's new MSFS sim do place more of the processing load on the GPU.

Thanks for the responce.  Should have specified this earlier, I am using P3D v4.5.

Incase it helps, here are the rest of the specs of that laptop.

GTX 1650 4Gb

16GB RAM

Intel i5 10300H quad core, 2.5 GHz (max 4.5 GHz)

256 GB M.2 SSD