Gtx 1070 and AMD FX-6300 Bottleneck

[Snakkey]

I currently have a radeon r7 250 and a fx-6300 and I want to upgrade my GPU to the 1070. How bad will the bottle necking be?

If the bottle necking is bad enough would it make more sense to just upgrade my mobo and cpu or upgrade the GPU?.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Pretty bad. 

[JamesPlayzGamesHD]

BAD (to the bone)

[79wjd]

It will be pretty bad, but it wouldn't make sense to upgrade the CPU without the GPU. 

 

Worthwhile options imo: 

• RX480/GTX1060 and keep your FX6300 (with a smaller bottleneck, but still a sizeable bottleneck)
• Skylake i5 + RX480/GTX1060 
• 1070 with a future upgrade to an i5/i7

[QFA350]

it is going to be pretty bad. That CPU is very old now. Perhaps save a bit more and get an i5/i7 with a GTX 1060 when it comes out or an aftermarket RX 480.

[FirstArmada]

6500s the lowest i would go with a 1070

[i_build_nanosuits]

severe cpu limitations in most titles.

@Prysin might say otherwise, but Greg @ science studio tested a greatly overclocked to 4.6ghz AMD FX-6300 paired with an RX 480 (weak ass POS when compared to a GTX 1070) and the CPU already shown very clear limitations in most of the titles he tested...so GTX 1070 defenetly out of that CPU range...unless maybe you would like to do 4K gaming at 45FPS or something like that?

 

And before you ask...no upgrading to an FX-8350 or FX-9370 or whatever will not solve any of this as it's performance in games is barely any better than that of the FX-6300...

 

@7:14 ''with roughly everything else equal, you're looking at anywhere from a 20 to 50% framerate bottleneck with the FX-6300 compared to that of a modern i5 or i7 with decent clockspeed''

...and again, this is just an RX 480...and his CPU was clocked at 4.6ghz

 

That said, your current GPU is extremely weak...so i would defenetly recommend you upgrade that first...and then start saving for an i5-6500 and a decent H170 motherboard or something...

[Prysin]

4 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

severe cpu limitations in most titles.

@Prysin might say otherwise, but Greg @ science studio tested a greatly overclocked to 4.6ghz AMD FX-6300 paired with an RX 480 (weak ass POS when compared to a GTX 1070) and the CPU already shown very clear limitations in most of the titles he tested...so GTX 1070 defenetly out of that CPU range...unless maybe you would like to do 4K gaming at 45FPS or something like that?

 

And before you ask...no upgrading to an FX-8350 or FX-9370 or whatever will not solve any of this as it's performance in games is barely any better than that of the FX-6300...

 

@7:14 ''with roughly everything else equal, you're looking at anywhere from a 20 to 50% framerate bottleneck with the FX-6300 compared to that of a modern i5 or i7 with decent clockspeed''

...and again, this is just an RX 480...and his CPU was clocked at 4.6ghz

 

That said, your current GPU is extremely weak...so i would defenetly recommend you upgrade that first...and then start saving for an i5-6500 and a decent H170 motherboard or something...

actually Nano, iv'e said that the FX series, be it FX 4, 6 or 8 will cap out at a reference R9 290. That is equal to a overclocked 380X or a severely termal throttling GTX 970.

 

A 480 is closer to a 290X, thus it will bottlenec in quite a few scenarios. ive tested this myself with my own dual 290X GPUs. FX 8320, even at 4.77GHz does bottleneck a 290X. Not terribly badly, but enough that it shouldnt be ignored.