possible performance bottlenecks with gtx 1070

[Sonkyhaner]

Cpu: i5 7400

Ram: 16gb 3200Mhz DDR4

gpu: gtx 1070

Current gaming resolution: 1080p

 

Hi, was wondering if anyone with more information on general bottlenecks could tell me if i have much to gain from upgrading my cpu in 1080p and possibly 1440p.

given what i have read it seems like i may have more performance to eventually gain with a cpu upgrade. however i do not know if this performance boost is worth exchanging cpu's for.

i do allso have the possibility of running 2 1070's in sli on my board

[WereCat]

Many new games would benefit from a CPU upgrade.

 

Don't bother with SLI. 

 

If you are happy with the performance you have now and don't have any issues then maybe don't worry about upgrading for now. 

[Chris Pratt]

You're unlikely to be bottlenecked by that CPU, unless you're playing games that are heavily multi-core. Turns would take forever in Civ 6, for example, though that's not really a bottleneck of GPU, per se.

 

Don't bother with SLI. It's dead. Very few games support it, and not well when they do.

 

 

[Haro]

you will benefitt with a cpu upgrade, having a 4c/4t cpu is certainly holding you back in some games and workloads.

you could get a 6700/7700 and that will be a lot better. but if the workload doesn't require the extra threads, then it's fine.

there's a bottleneck in every system, but in the sense that the cpu will slow down the gpu, then in that case, the 7400 shouldn't do that.

10 hours ago, Sonkyhaner said:

of running 2 1070's in sli on my board

yea don't bother with it, doesn't scale well and brings little to no performance benefits.

Edited August 11, 2020 by TofuHaroto