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so basic question, will my amd fx 8350 at stock speeds bottle neck 2 gtx970's in sli?  Dont talk about intel because unless you're paying for it, i am not getting a new processor, the topic is amd and 970 sli.

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so basic question, will my amd fx 8350 at stock speeds bottle neck 2 gtx970's in sli?  Dont talk about intel because unless you're paying for it, i am not getting a new processor, the topic is amd and 970 sli.

Depends on what game. In games that are heavily single-threaded yes, but even in a situation that a game only uses one core (and supports SLI?), it will still be perfectly playable.

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maybe...

depends on the game

this and it will not once dx12 drops

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depends....

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Hmmm...

Nailed that shit....What i meant to say is that it may bottleneck them in some cases since sli have compatibility problems with many games

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It will be fine, maybe on some more single-threaded games you won't have as good FPS but as @JEman99 said DX12 should make it even less of a problem.

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Compared to a 4790k the 8350 gets about 0-10% less fps on average, so yes it is a bottleneck, but just a small one.

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It will be fine, maybe on some more single-threaded games you won't have as good FPS but as @JEman99 said DX12 should make it even less of a problem.

Yes it is a lower leel api that allows mulithreaded processors to become more effective

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Nailed that shit....What i meant to say is that it may bottleneck them in some cases since sli have compatibility problems with many games

and the fx line only goes on pcie 2 which i know is enough but nvidia is very picky for sli

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Compared to a 4790k the 8350 gets about 0-10% less fps on average, so yes it is a bottleneck, but just a small one.

it ca be worse if neither are oc'd

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You'll be fine, bottleneck might be little, probably you won't even notice at 60fps, might see the bottleneck at 120 or 144(ofcourse there's no point in caring about this if your screen supports up to 60hz)

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bottleneck is little but thats because the core clock of a single core on amd is lower, but in multi threaded games you should be fine :D

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like yeah i know it will work and perform better than one 970 but is 2 970s worth the price to bottleneck ratio? (if thats a thing?)

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like yeah i know it will work and perform better than one 970 but is 2 970s worth the price to bottleneck ratio? (if thats a thing?)

Yea, the bottleneck is not that big, so i'd say 2 970 is worth it, the gain is high enough for the bottleneck to almost don't matter.

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Yea, the bottleneck is not that big, so i'd say 2 970 is worth it, the gain is high enough for the bottleneck to almost don't matter.

Yep, what eelnico09 said. Its pretty much a negligible bottleneck.

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The FX will bottleneck one 970 let alone two. Yes I've owned an 8320 Overclocked. Not worth the extra money.  

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like yeah i know it will work and perform better than one 970 but is 2 970s worth the price to bottleneck ratio? (if thats a thing?)

 

If you bottleneck a single card, you're bottlenecking two or three or four cards in SLI as well while getting 0% more performance.

 

Compared to a 4790k the 8350 gets about 0-10% less fps on average, so yes it is a bottleneck, but just a small one.

10%?

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-fx-8350-vs-intel-core-i7-3770k-4-8ghz-multi-gpu-gaming-performance/17494.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7189/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-september-2013

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/03/amd_fx8150_multigpu_gameplay_performance_review/

Scales all the way up to twice as much fps.

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Wow I never saw those benchmarks...lol you're right, it is a pretty big difference.

Lets say 0-100% then :P

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The FX will bottleneck one 970 let alone two. Yes I've owned an 8320 Overclocked. Not worth the extra money.  

It does not. A dual core sempron will. Not the quad core 8350.

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In today's games, yes. 

Not sure what will happen when DX12 comes to future games.

 

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Quite possibly. I know a guy who owns this set up but with the GPUs water cooled from what I believe. His Firestrike score wasn't much higher than my Athlon X4 750K @ 4.1GHz and GTX 960. Only by 1000 or so. Just something you may want to consider

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It does not. A dual core sempron will. Not the quad core 8350.

Why post on an old topic?

Also yes it does, please do your research.

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