GPU Dilemma

[Anthony Dupuis]

My current rig has a R5 2600 and an RX 580 4 GB, but I recently started working and got a bit more money. I am not liking the performance of my MSI Armor OC RX 580, because I had all sorts of driver problems and the temps were very high. I started looking and found some RTX 2070 Super's on sale but I was a bit concerned about the possible bottleneck caused by my R5 2600. I currently have a 144hz 1080p monitor so I am playing all my games on that resolution. I play some Fortnite, Rainbow Six Siege, Ark Survival Evolved and hopefully some more games in the future. I was looking at the RTX 2070 Super because I was hoping to get good performance if I ever upgrade my monitor.

 

Do you think the R5 2600 will significantly bottleneck the 2070 Super to a point where I get near the performance of an RTX 2060 for example? Will I waste money by purchasing the 2070? Should I upgrade my CPU and wait for the GPU?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Constantin]

2 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

Do you think the R5 2600 will significantly bottleneck the 2070 Super to a point where I get near the performance of an RTX 2060 for example? Will I waste money by purchasing the 2070? Should I upgrade my CPU and wait for the GPU?

No bottleneck!

The RTX 2070 is a kick ass card, i have it on a 4K monitor and it works like a charm 

[Ben17]

14 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

My current rig has a R5 2600 and an RX 580 4 GB, but I recently started working and got a bit more money. I am not liking the performance of my MSI Armor OC RX 580,

No there won't be a bottleneck 

[Mateyyy]

With the games you mentioned you should be good (don't know about Ark though, that thing's always been a mess from what I hear), I wouldn't expect major bottlenecking, so I'd say go for it. While better CPUs might get a few frames more with the 2070 Super, you should still be able to get the most out of it and hit the 144FPS mark easily in R6S and Fortnite, and definitely will be a big upgrade over your 580.

[Anthony Dupuis]

7 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

With the games you mentioned you should be good (don't know about Ark though, that thing's always been a mess from what I hear), I wouldn't expect major bottlenecking, so I'd say go for it. While better CPUs might get a few frames more with the 2070 Super, you should still be able to get the most out of it and hit the 144FPS mark easily in R6S and Fortnite, and definitely will be a big upgrade over your 580.

Thanks for the advice!

[Jurrunio]

Even if there is a bottleneck, you should still get the 2070S and put a CPU upgrade in the to-do list

[Anthony Dupuis]

I was also wondering if overclocking my R5 2600 could be possible with the stock wraith stealth cooler included in the box? During Fortnite I am only hitting 55c max.

[Jurrunio]

Just now, Anthony Dupuis said:

I was also wondering if overclocking my R5 2600 could be possible with the stock wraith stealth cooler included in the box? During Fortnite I am only hitting 55c max.

Possible, just don't expect the greatest of results.

[Ben17]

3 minutes ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

I was also wondering if overclocking my R5 2600 could be possible with the stock wraith stealth cooler included in the box? During Fortnite I am only hitting 55c max.

I have done it with a ryzen 3 on the stock cooler once but didn't get amazing results tbh 

[BTGbullseye]

4 hours ago, Anthony Dupuis said:

I was also wondering if overclocking my R5 2600 could be possible with the stock wraith stealth cooler included in the box? During Fortnite I am only hitting 55c max.

Fortnite is not demanding enough to put a strain on even an Intel stock cooler... You want to use something that can actually push the CPU above base clock speeds to determine what your temp limits are going to be. CPU-Z has one built in that will do fine for that. Run it, and tell us what the temps are currently after about 7-10 minutes.