Will an AMD-FX 8320 Bottleneck a 1060?

[DreamssYT]

I'm thinking about getting a 1060 soon and I have a AMD-FX 8320 Eight-Core. My friend says that my CPU will bottleneck a 1060, but I've heard my other friends say otherwise. I just wanted to know, will it really bottleneck it?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What is your current't gpu.

[DreamssYT]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What is your current't gpu.

GTX 950

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, DreamssYT said:

GTX 950

Id get the 1060. There will be a performance increase in most games. Then upgrade you cpu later on.

[stationvsbox]

3 minutes ago, DreamssYT said:

I'm thinking about getting a 1060 soon and I have a AMD-FX 8320 Eight-Core. My friend says that my CPU will bottleneck a 1060, but I've heard my other friends say otherwise. I just wanted to know, will it really bottleneck it?

Never

[aeroencychris]

Yes and you should upgrade to something like an i5 6500 down the line

edit: bottleneck is a very relative term. your cpu is the limiting factor, but it'll perform fine imo

[Gravemind]

Your CPU will be just fine, I've got the 8300 and it hasn't missed a beat when paired with my Asus RX-480 8gb. Don't listen to these people telling you to upgrade "because it's old!", you'll be just fine mate.

[DreamssYT]

4 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

Yes and you should upgrade to something like an i5 6500 down the line

I was actually considering the new Zen models that are upcoming.

[KiBlast9000]

Your CPU will only bottleneck your card if it cannot handle the amount of frames being output by your GPU. If you are playing at 800x600 on a 1060 and on low settings with v-sync off, then yes I will say it might bottleneck your card. I don't see your card being bottlenecked if you are playing at 1080p @ high-ultra settings.. 

[STRMfrmXMN]

The 8320 is a substantial IPC bottleneck to a GPU that is as powerful as a GTX 980, which I would not have paired with an FX-series CPU anyways.

 

You can buy it and run it and see if you have an enjoyable experience but it might be a good idea to upgrade your CPU down the line.

[Enderman]

Yeah, but really depends on the game how much performance you're sacrificing.

It definitely won't be unplayable or anything, just less than an i5/i7 would get.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Check the CPU usage on games you normally run. If you're consistently hitting 85%+ usage, then you are in danger of bottlenecking. But the question of how much is up for debate. However, it's probably not going to cause an upgrade to not provide an improvement. It may, but just not as much as it would.

[zMeul]

@stationvsbox@Gravemind what are you willing to bet?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/5 - and they did these test 4y ago with a GTX680

a GTX1060 is much powerful than that

 

@DreamssYT you should wait until Zen gets on shelves, then invest in new hardware

[Energycore]

I mean it won't be as good as an i5, but the i5 is also more expensive.

 

It's just over an i3 in games these days.

[Gravemind]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

@stationvsbox@Gravemind what are you willing to bet?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/5 - and they did these test 4y ago with a GTX680

a GTX1060 is much powerful than that

 

 

Oh noez, it only got 200+fps in Skyrim! And only 120+ in Dragon Age!

Oh the humanity!

Guess it's time to needlessly blow money on a new CPU and motherboard.

 

 

OP, your CPU is fine.

[zMeul]

Just now, Gravemind said:

Oh noez, it only got 200+fps in Skyrim! And only 120+ in Dragon Age!

in 1680x1050 - yeah .. playing at lower resolution will increase perf .. who knew?! riigt 

[Gravemind]

Just now, zMeul said:

in 1680x1050 - yeah .. playing at lower resolution will increase perf .. who knew?! riigt 

I'm sure bumping it up to 1080 will make all the difference and just slash framerates in half, possible even detonate his power supply! =o

Get over yourself, the CPU he has is just fine. Keep your elitist effluvia to yourself.

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, Gravemind said:

I'm sure bumping it up to 1080 will make all the difference and just slash framerates in half, possible even detonate his power supply! =o

Get over yourself, the CPU he has is just fine. Keep your elitist effluvia to yourself.

yeah . I'm not the one giving him bad advice

FX8320 is a piece of shit CPU that wasn't competitive 4y ago, and guess what ... same today

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

It will bottleneck it slightly, but not enough to justify the $500 investment to upgrade to a Intel Core i5/i7 platform.

[ybriK]

Yes it will. Is it worth it to upgrade to an i5 platform? Hell no. Unless you have spare cash to throw. 1060 is comparable to a 980 and obviously a 980 Ti and Titan X wins over the 1060.

 

 

 

[Praesi]

3 hours ago, Gravemind said:

Oh noez, it only got 200+fps in Skyrim! And only 120+ in Dragon Age!

Oh the humanity!

Guess it's time to needlessly blow money on a new CPU and motherboard.

 

 

OP, your CPU is fine.

Thats not the Point. OP asked for bottleneck.

[Nena Trinity]

The CPU is fine for that GPU! 3GB or 6GB?

[Prysin]

6 hours ago, DreamssYT said:

I'm thinking about getting a 1060 soon and I have a AMD-FX 8320 Eight-Core. My friend says that my CPU will bottleneck a 1060, but I've heard my other friends say otherwise. I just wanted to know, will it really bottleneck it?

depends.

 

In DX10 based or older DX or OpenGL titles, YES.

But in more modern DX11 and DX12 / Vulkan titles, not so much. At stock that is.

 

I'd say a stock 8320 would bottleneck the 1060 by about 5-10%, if you OC said 8320 to say, 4.4 to 4.6GHz, it should barely bottleneck it at all.

 

 

I got a 8320 myself, and with a 290X (AMD has higher CPU overhead in their drivers) i get around 10-15% bottleneck at stock, vs a 4790k (stock) and about 3-7% bottleneck at 4.7GHz vs stock 4790k.

 

Bear in mind, i actually got CROSSFIRE 290X, and if you run crossfire, you REALLY notice the bottleneck (up to 40% stock vs stock 4790k)

[i_build_nanosuits]

i was using an overclocked to 4.6ghz AMD FX-8320 with a GTX 780 @ 1200mhz and in many games my performance would go down to 30 to 40FPS at times with GPU load in the 60 to 70% range...in some games like battlefield 3 and 4 for example it was perfectly fine with 80FPS average, but games like far cry 3, assassin's creed 4 black flag, hitman absolution, dying light or watchdogs just to name a few i was seeing 35FPS range a lot...once i upgraded to a i7-4770K it was smooth sailing from there with 65FPS+ consistently in all those games.

 

So yeah, imho the FX-8320 even if you overclock it balls to the walls is nowhere near good enough for a GTX 1060...it's still worth getting the GPU as it will improve your performance in many games by a very noticeable amount over a GTX 950 that's a given...you'll be able to max out GPU demanding settings and use full blow 4xMSAA and stuff like that without slow down...but in CPU intensive games, you'll not get the performance you should get until you upgrade to a faster CPU.

[DreamssYT]

Well I was expecting answers on if it would bottleneck, not an AMD vs Intel fight. Thank you everyone who answered though!