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You’ve seen it: that smug little number in Task Manager or Activity Monitor. “Don’t worry, I’m only at 50% CPU utilization!”
Yeah… about that. It’s lying to your face.
One curious engineer decided to put their AMD Ryzen through the digital equivalent of Navy SEAL training using a tool called stress-ng (translation: “let’s break the CPU and see what happens”).
They wanted to know: if the CPU meter says 50%, does that really mean the chip is working at half its capacity?
Short answer: nope.
Long answer: your CPU is gaslighting you.
Here’s what’s really going on when your CPU swears it’s “half busy”:
Regular tasks: already chewing through ~60 -65% of what the chip can handle.
Math with integers: jumps to ~65 to 85%.
Matrix math (heavy-duty number crunching): up to 100%.
So yeah, your computer can claim it’s “only halfway there” while secretly sweating like a student pulling an all-nighter before finals.
Two big reasons your CPU meter is about as trustworthy as a toddler with chocolate on their face:
1. Hyper-threading: The Fake Roommate
Your CPU pretends it has more cores than it really does by splitting them into “threads.” Imagine 12 bathrooms. Great! Then it says, “Surprise, here are 12 more bathrooms!” Except those extra ones are just people sharing the original bathrooms. When workloads pile up, half those “extra” cores are mostly waiting in line.
2. Turbo Mode: The Bait and Switch
When only a few cores are active, they can sprint at full turbo speed (say, 4.9 GHz). Fire up all the cores, and suddenly everyone slows down to 4.3 GHz to avoid overheating. That means your CPU meter is counting cycles, but the cycles themselves keep shrinking in value. It’s like measuring distance while someone keeps changing the length of your ruler.
Stop blindly trusting CPU percentages. Instead:
✅ Benchmark your system — test how much work it can really do under load.
✅ Measure completed work, not just utilization.
✅ Compare against the real max, not the fairy tale number your CPU reports.
CPU utilization numbers are about as honest as someone saying “I’m fine” when they’re clearly not.
If you trust that 50% figure, you’ll end up underestimating how close you are to the edge. Measure real performance, not just utilisation, and your future self will thank you.