CPU still good for a while?

[Andreas Lilja]

Currently have a 7700k but planning to get one of those new generation RTX cards (because of Ray-tracing). 3080 or 3080Ti, that 3090 is way too expensive. My monitor is a G-Sync ultrawide 1440p 120hz.

 

My CPU is going to bottleneck right?

 

 

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Andreas Lilja said:

My CPU is going to bottleneck right?

 

it could, depending on the games.

 

single threaded performance is as current as it gets, the only thing holding it back is 4 cores with hyperthreading, but as we've seen with GN's testing with the 3300X, you get good performance scaling in modern games all the way up to the 2080 ti, so a bottleneck shouldn't be of much concern.

[bmx6454]

i would expect bottleneck with an rtx 3080 or higher, not sure about 3070 though.

[Moonzy]

depends on the title, but i've seen cases of 6700k holding back a 2080Ti on 1440p, so a 3080(Ti) would only make it more so

[mark_smith85]

Looks like your setup is nearly identical to mine (also using 21:9 1440p at 120hz).

 

Personally I plan to OC my CPU, get a 3080 (probably an Asus OC version) and upgrade my CPU and MB next year to Zen 3 based architecture.

 

May get some bottlenecks for now but nothing to huge. Given were both at lower end of frame rate now (compared to most other monitors) don't think it will stop us hitting above 100FPS on most titles.

[Haro]

Depends, it is a 4 core cpu and if you play games that can scale up to 6 cores and more, the 7700k could struggle, but at higher resolutions it shouldn't be bad, but wait for ampere to actually launch and check how it preforms and how a 7700k holds up with a 3080.

[shaz2sxy]

i'm in the same boat

 

got the 7700k

 

looking to get the 3070

 

the CPU will be fine for another year or two.