What's the weakest CPU you should pair with a 2080 Ti?

[Guest]

There's so many threads about CPUs bottlenecking GPUs and vice versa which got me thinking what IS the weakest CPU that can keep up with the current hot shot?

 

EDIT: I should mention the activity I thought of is primarily gaming. Games that are GPU intensive, not CPU.

[gloop]

Do you mean to have a good pairing of CPU and GPU or just the lowest-end CPU? 

[Haro]

There's always a Bottleneck. 

Some workloads are GPU Bottlenecked and some are cpu Bottlenecked. 

But in general, 10600k/3600/8700k imo. 

[Moonzy]

i've seen people pair a pentium G4560 with 8 RTX2080Ti for [cough]computation intensive task [/cough], and it runs just fine

 

it depends on what you do

[Guest]

Just now, gloop said:

Do you mean to have a good pairing of CPU and GPU or just the lowest-end CPU? 

The lowest end that you could pair without sacrificing (significant) performance.

[gloop]

Just now, RonnyDouglas said:

The lowest end that you could pair without sacrificing (significant) performance.

Probably something like a 3300x. 

[Mateyyy]

3300X, but you're obviously not going to spend $120 on a CPU you plan on pairing with a $1200 GPU (I hope). I think that's the cheapest CPU that manages to get the most (not all) out of it.

Really though you should be looking at least at a 10600K, or maybe a 3700X, depending on the resolution.

[xg32]

18 minutes ago, RonnyDouglas said:

There's so many threads about CPUs bottlenecking GPUs and vice versa which got me thinking what IS the weakest CPU that can keep up with the current hot shot?

 

EDIT: I should mention the activity I thought of is primarily gaming. Games that are GPU intensive, not CPU.

weakest cpu for AAA gaming? probably a 10600k, 270usd cpu with good single thread performance.

 

You can pair a 10600k with a 2080S and get almost the same performance as the 3600+2080 ti combo, but one cost more than the other. Assuming max oc on everything.

 

Cheaping out on cpu stops making sense as the price of the gpu goes up, but the 3600 is fine up to a 2070S

[VeganJoy]

hell if you played 4k or something you could probably get by with a 9100f or 1600af

 

but why would you do that with a $1200 gpu

[Moonzy]

22 minutes ago, RonnyDouglas said:

I should mention the activity I thought of is primarily gaming. Games that are GPU intensive, not CPU.

i would pair most gaming rigs like this

 

3300x: 1650 up to 1660Ti

3600: 1660Ti up to 2070Super

3700x: 2070Super up to 2080Ti

 

but again, depends if you have any special requirements

 

you could pair a weak cpu like 3300X with it and just crank up game graphical settings to fully utilise the 2080ti horsepower if there's any to spare, so yea

[GER_T4IGA]

Depends on the resolution. 8K? I'd say you can get away with a 3300X unless you want to play mine sweeper at 360Hz

4K, same but that pariny would be stupid.

 

Useful answer: I'd say i5 10600k or R7 3700

[wall03]

R5 3600

[Kurupt]

Hopefully my 9700k can still stretch her legs and be efficient with my 2080 ti LOL.

[Mister Woof]

Personal pairing brackets given current products:

 

$200 and under (~1660 and below)
i3-10100

Ryzen 3 3100

 

$300 and under (RTX 2060, 5600 XT)

Ryzen 5 3600

i5-10400

 

$500 and under (RTX 2070 Super, 5700 XT)

Ryzen 5 3600

i5-10600k

 

$700+ (RTX 2080 Super, 2080 ti)

i7-10700k

Ryzen 7 3700x (if you play at 4k)