Will a new GPU bottleneck my CPU?

[Swiebertjeee]

Hello, 

 

I was looking at upgrading my GPU when the new line of NVIDEA gpu's release. I was looking to upgrade my current 1080 to a 3080. However I don't know if my CPU needs upgrading and thus my current CPU be bottlenecking the ne GPU. 

 

So my question do I need to upgrade my CPU to prevent a bottleneck? 

CPU: i5-8600K

[Kanna]

2 minutes ago, Swiebertjeee said:

Hello, 

 

I was looking at upgrading my GPU when the new line of NVIDEA gpu's release. I was looking to upgrade my current 1080 to a 3080. However I don't know if my CPU needs upgrading and thus my current CPU be bottlenecking the ne GPU. 

 

So my question do I need to upgrade my CPU to prevent a bottleneck? 

CPU: i5-8600K

First of that RAM is one negative and your CPU would probs not be good match with a 3080

[Haro]

14 minutes ago, Swiebertjeee said:

So my question do I need to upgrade my CPU to prevent a bottleneck? 

Well coffee lake does benefit from faster ram so an upgrade to that will help. 

As for the cpu, in gaming an 8600k is still not bad but check how ampere performs and how this cpu holds with the 3080 and decide, but it shouldn't be too bad, if you need an upgrade, something like a used 8700k should be a pretty nice upgrade if needed. 

Again though, wait for ampere to actually release and check it's performance and how this cpu holds up with it. 

[Quickstrike]

9 minutes ago, Swiebertjeee said:

Hello, 

 

I was looking at upgrading my GPU when the new line of NVIDEA gpu's release. I was looking to upgrade my current 1080 to a 3080. However I don't know if my CPU needs upgrading and thus my current CPU be bottlenecking the ne GPU. 

 

So my question do I need to upgrade my CPU to prevent a bottleneck? 

CPU: i5-8600K

We don't know yet if you will experience bottleneck, either wait for review or take a chance. The worst that will happen is still a major performance gain.

And not to throw Shade but Speccy is broken AF.... maybe use something else in the future.

[cm992]

15 minutes ago, Swiebertjeee said:

Hello, 

 

I was looking at upgrading my GPU when the new line of NVIDEA gpu's release. I was looking to upgrade my current 1080 to a 3080. However I don't know if my CPU needs upgrading and thus my current CPU be bottlenecking the ne GPU. 

 

So my question do I need to upgrade my CPU to prevent a bottleneck? 

CPU: i5-8600K

Games have become more multicore optimzied and will continue to do so. But, for rouhgly the same price, upgrading to an RTX 3080 will increase your fps more than upgrading to an i9-10900K and new motherboard. But yes having an i5-8600K 6c/6t will leave performance on the table with an RTX 3080, it already does with an RTX 2080 Ti. If you only have enough budget for an RTX 3080 get that, look at reviews when it comes out, or preorder it in a couple weeks if you have the money and want it. And if you have the money for a processor upgrade as well then I'd recommend waiting for Intel 11th gen or Ryzen 4000.

[You_found_dom]

11 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

We don't know yet if you will experience bottleneck, either wait for review or take a chance. The worst that will happen is still a major performance gain.

And not to throw Shade but Speccy is broken AF.... maybe use something else in the future.

Yeah, does that say 4gb 1080?

[Swiebertjeee]

22 hours ago, cpm9 said:

Games have become more multicore optimzied and will continue to do so. But, for rouhgly the same price, upgrading to an RTX 3080 will increase your fps more than upgrading to an i9-10900K and new motherboard. But yes having an i5-8600K 6c/6t will leave performance on the table with an RTX 3080, it already does with an RTX 2080 Ti. If you only have enough budget for an RTX 3080 get that, look at reviews when it comes out, or preorder it in a couple weeks if you have the money and want it. And if you have the money for a processor upgrade as well then I'd recommend waiting for Intel 11th gen or Ryzen 4000.

What would be the better choice, wait or go for ryzen? 

 

22 hours ago, YT_DomDaBomb20 said:

Yeah, does that say 4gb 1080?

What do you mean?

 

22 hours ago, Quickstrike said:

We don't know yet if you will experience bottleneck, either wait for review or take a chance. The worst that will happen is still a major performance gain.

And not to throw Shade but Speccy is broken AF.... maybe use something else in the future.

What program should I use instead? 

[Swiebertjeee]

22 hours ago, Kanna said:

First of that RAM is one negative and your CPU would probs not be good match with a 3080

How does RAM improve gaming? I mean I have 16GB of RAM because of a programming occasion but never see it being used when I am in gaming mode. 

[Kanna]

12 minutes ago, Swiebertjeee said:

How does RAM improve gaming? I mean I have 16GB of RAM because of a programming occasion but never see it being used when I am in gaming mode. 

The ram Speed is the issue that is like welcome to 2012

[cm992]

3 hours ago, Swiebertjeee said:

What would be the better choice, wait or go for ryzen? 

I would recommend getting the RTX 3080. And when Ryzen 4000 or Intel 11th gen come out and get reviewed try to determine how much FPS gain you would get from moving from your i5-8600K to one of those (in the games and resolution that you play with your RTX 3080) then decide if the cost is worth it to you. Don't get an intel 10th gen as it does not support PCIe 4. And you might as well not get Ryzen 3000 and just wait for 4000 as it should be out in the next couple months.

 

EDIT: As for the RAM you should really get some with 3200 MHz speed, it would improve your FPS quite a bit considering you have 1000 MHz (check ram speed benchmark such as this and notice the speeds and look at the games fps)

[Quickstrike]

4 hours ago, Swiebertjeee said:

What program should I use instead? 

I use hwmonitor, You could also use AI Suite from Asus or your cooler's or graphic card manufacturer control software
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html