Keatah

It would be interesting to see how an i7-9750H handles it. I've been taken aback by just how intelligent those CPUs are. At low load, they'll drop down to as slow as 1.6Ghz.

My guess is 10-15%. In idle I've seen a stock 8700 drop below 1GHz.

If you turn on those BGFX/GLSL/HLSL CRT tuning options, the GPU usage goes to about 30% on a 1080GTX. But the CPU usage stays the same or only adds a 1-2% more. This includes all kinds of ratbaggy CRT distortions and hum and bloom and NTSC artifacting and everything.

It's nice because the fans don't even speed up or do much of anything.

Tomorrow I'll be testing on an i7-8559U.