is there a bottleneck here ?

[FadiFayez]

Hi Guys,

i have a Core i7 3770k @3.5ghz // 8GB DDR3 1600MHz and a Nvidia 560 ti

a friend of mine suggested that my gpu is bottlenecking my cpu

is this true ?

i tried overclocking my graphics card and I was able to achieve better gaming performance but when i overclocked the CPU alone i didn't see much improvement

sorry if this is in the wrong section :)

also i was thinking of upgrading my graphics card soon and i'm thinking of getting a gtx 680 of a 7970

please note that the 7970 is significantly cheaper where i live

thanks

[firest0rm]

GTX560 ti doesnt have enough vram to run games in 1080P at higher settings smoothly

so if your aim is to run games in higher detail then yeah it does bottleneck it

that i7 3770k can handle any gaming card with ease

a HD7970 would defenitly improve fps allot

GTX680 is stronger then a HD7970

the HD7970 is on par with a GTX670 unless where talking about the Ghz edition

[HEXiT]

not a chance. your friend is clueless...

the game needs to be cpu bound (dependent on a fast cpu) to see any improvement in performance from a cpu overclock, so most of the time you will only ever see 1-2 fps by overclocking the cpu in most games...

3-9 fps is typical of a gfx card oc on a game thats gpu bound like crysis or starcraft 2 in crysis, 3 fps can be as much as 10% performance increase my 5870 for instance will give me 30 fps bang on. max settings i oc the cpu by 20+% 2.6-3.6 and get zero to 1 fps gain then oc the gfx by just 6 %and get a 2 fps boost this tells me this game is gpu bound the game is more dependent on a good gpu than a good cpu.

over the next few months you will figure out which games benefit from a fast cpu and which dont. but what ever you do keep yer mate out of your pc and dont let him touch the bios...

[firest0rm]

not a chance. your friend is clueless...

the game needs to be cpu bound (dependent on a fast cpu) to see any improvement in performance from a cpu overclock, so most of the time you will only ever see 1-2 fps by overclocking the cpu in most games...

3-9 fps is typical of a gfx card oc on a game thats gpu bound like crysis or starcraft 2 in crysis, 3 fps can be as much as 10% performance increase my 5870 for instance will give me 30 fps bang on. max settings i oc the cpu by 20+% 2.6-3.6 and get zero to 1 fps gain then oc the gfx by just 6 %and get a 2 fps boost this tells me this game is gpu bound the game is more dependent on a good gpu than a good cpu.

over the next few months you will figure out which games benefit from a fast cpu and which dont. but what ever you do keep yer mate out of your pc and dont let him touch the bios...

a friend of mine suggested that my gpu is bottlenecking my cpu

his friend was rite

[ProGearUk]

GTX560 ti doesnt have enough vram to run games in 1080P at higher settings smoothly

so if your aim is to run games in higher detail then yeah it does bottleneck it

that i7 3770k can handle any gaming card with ease

a HD7970 would defenitly improve fps allot

GTX680 is stronger then a HD7970

the HD7970 is on par with a GTX670 unless where talking about the Ghz edition

the 7970 is stronger than the 680 in a lot of things even when at stock speeds

[ProGearUk]

GTX560 ti doesnt have enough vram to run games in 1080P at higher settings smoothly

so if your aim is to run games in higher detail then yeah it does bottleneck it

that i7 3770k can handle any gaming card with ease

a HD7970 would defenitly improve fps allot

GTX680 is stronger then a HD7970

the HD7970 is on par with a GTX670 unless where talking about the Ghz edition

the 7970 is stronger than the 680 in a lot of things even when at stock speeds

[HEXiT]

not a chance. your friend is clueless...

the game needs to be cpu bound (dependent on a fast cpu) to see any improvement in performance from a cpu overclock, so most of the time you will only ever see 1-2 fps by overclocking the cpu in most games...

3-9 fps is typical of a gfx card oc on a game thats gpu bound like crysis or starcraft 2 in crysis, 3 fps can be as much as 10% performance increase my 5870 for instance will give me 30 fps bang on. max settings i oc the cpu by 20+% 2.6-3.6 and get zero to 1 fps gain then oc the gfx by just 6 %and get a 2 fps boost this tells me this game is gpu bound the game is more dependent on a good gpu than a good cpu.

over the next few months you will figure out which games benefit from a fast cpu and which dont. but what ever you do keep yer mate out of your pc and dont let him touch the bios...

do you know what a bottleneck is... yes the gpu is comparatively underpowered but theres no way it could bottleneck that cpu.

if you swapped out the cpu for a lesser 1 you would get the same performance but that doesnt mean its a cpu bottleneck it means the gpu has reached its performance limit.

thats not a bottleneck thats a hardware limitation.

a gpu can bottleneck a cpu when the gpu is over powered compared to the cpu, but an underpowered gpu cant.

so yes his pc is unbalanced as far as gpu-cpu performance goes but its not a bottleneck.

[firest0rm]

not a chance. your friend is clueless...

the game needs to be cpu bound (dependent on a fast cpu) to see any improvement in performance from a cpu overclock, so most of the time you will only ever see 1-2 fps by overclocking the cpu in most games...

3-9 fps is typical of a gfx card oc on a game thats gpu bound like crysis or starcraft 2 in crysis, 3 fps can be as much as 10% performance increase my 5870 for instance will give me 30 fps bang on. max settings i oc the cpu by 20+% 2.6-3.6 and get zero to 1 fps gain then oc the gfx by just 6 %and get a 2 fps boost this tells me this game is gpu bound the game is more dependent on a good gpu than a good cpu.

over the next few months you will figure out which games benefit from a fast cpu and which dont. but what ever you do keep yer mate out of your pc and dont let him touch the bios...

dont take it to literately just because some one uses the term bottleneck doesnt make him incorrect

keep in mind not every one is english and there are some big language barriers

in this case its a hardware limitation w.e his friend was still right in my book

and if u want the factual definition of bottleneck

a phenomenon where the capacity of an entire system is limited by lowest-capacity part of such system

a bottleneck is not sole meant for cpu's it can be used for other things such as GPU's HDD's SSD's and other parts that can slow the system down!

its still a bottleneck cause the system can do better.

[firest0rm]

GTX560 ti doesnt have enough vram to run games in 1080P at higher settings smoothly

so if your aim is to run games in higher detail then yeah it does bottleneck it

that i7 3770k can handle any gaming card with ease

a HD7970 would defenitly improve fps allot

GTX680 is stronger then a HD7970

the HD7970 is on par with a GTX670 unless where talking about the Ghz edition

no it isnt the standard HD7970 is not on par with the GTX680 but with the GTX670

the GHz edition however is some games take more liking towards AMD gpu's and others to Nvidia

but overall the GTX680 beats the HD7970 standard edition