CPU utilization measures the percentage of time the CPU is actively working, with 100% indicating it’s fully saturated and cannot process more tasks.
CPU load reflects the number of processes being executed or waiting for CPU time, where a load of 1 means a single core is fully utilized, and a load of 2 indicates one process is running while another waits in the queue.
While CPU utilization is capped at 100%, CPU load is a numeric value and can exceed this, depending on the number of processes and CPU cores.
