Have yet to see one. In any situation though - displaying that information won't necessarily reveal a bottleneck. Bottlenecks are best found through a combination of benchmark results.
Is there a program that shows how much of your video cards power is being used. to look for bottlenecks.
xGamermanxx
I can't say that I've heard of a program that does that, but I do know of one way to check for a bottleneck - though if it's on the GPU or CPU side, that's a bit though to tell unless you're running some piss poor CPU and a high GPU; then you know it's the CPU that's causing the bottleneck. We'll use my old system specs: AMD 64 X2 5600+ (OC'ed from 2.81GHz to 3.15GHz) 4GB DDR2 800 2x 8800GTS 512MB in SLI 22" monitor @ 1680x1050 Windows XP w/ SP3 I could run Crysis at all high settings (with above specs at native resolution) with no AA/AF for about 40fps on average. I then turned my resolution down to 1280x1024 (or something close to that resolution) and ran Crysis on high settings with no AA/AF and I would still average about 40fps. My fps should have improved with the lower resolution, but my CPU is bottlenecking my video cards. In theory, you should notice improvement in your fps if you lower your resolution. I have a new MB and CPU now and I see a noticeable increase in my fps in Crysis when I drop my resolution from native to something much lower. That's one way you can test for bottlenecking.
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