Signs that confirm your GPU is bottlenecking your PC

The word bottleneck is enough to send shivers down the spines of PC gamers. And the worst kind of bottleneck is a GPU bottleneck, even though that's ideally what you want on a gaming PC. Most games are GPU-bound, so you want a situation where none of the other components are holding your GPU back. In some cases, though, a weaker or older GPU can actually bottleneck your PC, stopping you from getting the maximum performance your system is capable of. Here are the signs that you need a new GPU to eliminate a significant bottleneck.