FX-6350 Bottleneck MSI R9 390?

[BlashaOwns]

Hey LinusTec9Tips forums, i was wondering if my fx-6350 would bottleneck an msi r9 390?

 

thanks buds

[Paytend01]

Yes ... ( don't pay attention to what I said at first, it was a mistake... I read it wrong)

[Morgan MLGman]

Yep, most likely. In most new games it should be fine (talking AAA titles here) but in some cases yes.

[Paytend01]

Hey LinusTec9Tips forums, i was wondering if my fx-6350 would bottleneck an msi r9 390?

 

thanks buds

Follow your post, welcome the forums

[Kherm]

Yes.

[KemoKa]

Pretty badly. You want an i5 at least.

[Mohenjo]

No... If anything the other way around

u wot m8? 

[Muz]

No... If anything the other way around

Did you read it properly?

[Paytend01]

Did you read it properly?

No I did not, read my post now... I changed it as soon as I read it agian

[Morgan MLGman]

Pretty badly. You want an i5 at least.

What do you mean by pretty badly? An 8350 doesn't bottleneck a 290X (it's my current setup) and the 290X is more powerful. Of course it's got one module more than the 6350 and it's @4,5ghz but most AAA titles don't even take it over 75%, which is theoretically how much 100% of the 6350 @4,5ghz is. The issue would be in older games, as well as the very CPU demanding AAA games (but these are pretty rare so far)

An 6350 is more powerful when using all threads than the i5-4460 actually ^^

[i_build_nanosuits]

Depend what games you play and at what resolution and also if you have the CPU heavily overclocked or not.

But no it's not a great match...anything above a GTX 960 or R9 380 should not be paired with that CPU in ideal world, but if you already own the CPU it's still worth buying a powerful graphics card and then consider a CPU upgrade in the future if the games you play don't run as good as you would like.

[i_build_nanosuits]

What do you mean by pretty badly? An 8350 doesn't bottleneck a 290X (it's my current setup) and the 290X is more powerful. Of course it's got one module more than the 6350 and it's @4,5ghz but most AAA titles don't even take it over 75%, which is theoretically how much 100% of the 6350 @4,5ghz is. The issue would be in older games, as well as the very CPU demanding AAA games (but these are pretty rare so far)

An 6350 is more powerful when using all threads than the i5-4460 actually ^^

the FX-6300 only has 3 floating-point unit which can and will impact it's performance in games...also overall CPU load won't mean much because i've seen my FX limit my 780 even though the CPU was only around 60% utilisation and no core was maxed out...the CPU can be too slow to process given drawcalls fast enough and therefore limit the GPU in it's operations even if no threads are even maxed out, gaming is all about speed...how fast can you process this, and then this, and then this, and this, and this...i think you get the idea!

The i5-4460 is equiped with 4x 256bits floating point units which are a lot stronger and faster than that of the FX-6300...even though an heavily overclocked FX-6300 can outperform the intel i5 in SOME instances which involve heavy multi-threaded integer based operations this does not translate at all when it comes to it's actual gaming performance.

[BlashaOwns]

HMM this is interesting. lots of views on this opinion. Alot of my friends have 8350's and say that it wouldn't bottleneck. BTW im planning on overclocking this 6350 heavily as i am liquid cooling with a define r5.

[Morgan MLGman]

the FX-6300 only has 3 floating-point unit which can and will impact it's performance in games...also overall CPU load won't mean much because i've seen my FX limit my 780 even though the CPU was only around 60% utilisation and no core was maxed out...the CPU can be too slow to process given drawcalls fast enough and therefore limit the GPU in it's operations even if no threads are even maxed out, gaming is all about speed...how fast can you process this, and then this, and then this, and this, and this...i think you get the idea!

The i5-4460 is equiped with 4x 256bits floating point units which are a lot stronger and faster than that of the FX-6300...even though an heavily overclocked FX-6300 can outperform the intel i5 in SOME instances which involve heavy multi-threaded integer based operations this does not translate at all when it comes to it's actual gaming performance.

Obviously, I'm not saying it's better for gaming by any means ^^ It's definitely good enough to keep it and get the 390 until he gets the money for a CPU upgrade, that's my entire point here, it's unreasonable to get a worse GPU if he can afford the 390, I'm sure you agree on this with me

@BlashaOwns that's basically what you should do, get the 390 (although I highly recommend looking for a R9 290X, cause they're often the same price, and the 290X is more powerful, @App4that confirmed that the 290 series with the same clocks is almost the same as the 390 series, cause he owns a 290 and a 390, so the 290X is very, very close to a 390X after overclocking, and can even surpass a non-overclocked one) and make your CPU your next upgrade when you get the money

[i_build_nanosuits]

Obviously, I'm not saying it's better for gaming by any means ^^ It's definitely good enough to keep it and get the 390 until he gets the money for a CPU upgrade, that's my entire point here, it's unreasonable to get a worse GPU if he can afford the 390, I'm sure you agree on this with me

no absolutely agree with you my first post in this thread was saying exactly that

[Morgan MLGman]

no absolutely agree with you my first post in this thread was saying exactly that

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice ^^ I only saw the post you quoted me in cause it automatically scrolled to it

[App4that]

Yep, my Vapor X 290 performs almost exactly the same as the Nitro 390 I picked up. The 290 did use 30w more and ran a little hotter than the 390. But nothing anyone other than myself would notice.

[BlashaOwns]

soooooo upgrading to an i5 and a 290/290x it is. thanks guys!@!