i7 8700 and 3070 bottleneck?

[Mupik]

Hey, I'm currently running an i7 8700(non k), all other specs will be sufficient, I am considering a 3070 from a 2060, I am looking for an answer, not suggestions for lower gpus, will the 3070 bottleneck the 8700?

[LeeCope3]

1 minute ago, Mupik said:

Hey, I'm currently running an i7 8700(non k), all other specs will be sufficient, I am considering a 3070 from a 2060, I am looking for an answer, not suggestions for lower gpus, will the 3070 bottleneck the 8700?

are we supposed to see the future?

[Ankerson]

1 minute ago, Mupik said:

Hey, I'm currently running an i7 8700(non k), all other specs will be sufficient, I am considering a 3070 from a 2060, I am looking for an answer, not suggestions for lower gpus, will the 3070 bottleneck the 8700?

 

At 1080P yes...

 

1440P and 4K, no.

[bellabichon]

3 minutes ago, LeeCope3 said:

are we supposed to see the future?

Well, one can infer from the fact that Nvidia expects it to equal the 2080Ti in performance that it'll probably result in a similar bottleneck to the 2080Ti.

[-rascal-]

You'll still see performances gains going from a RTX 2060 to a RTX 3070 for sure.

The clock frequency of the CPU might limit your performance a little bit though.

Base Clock of 3.2GHz, and a maximum single core boost of up to 4.6 GHz, with "up to" boost profiles of:

• 1 core active: 4.6GHz
• 2 cores active: 4.5 GHz
• 3 cores active: 4.4 GHz
• 4 ~ 6 cores active: 4.3 GHz

Compared to, for an example, i7-8700K manually overclocked to 5.0GHz+ on ALL 6 cores.

You won't get the FPS numbers compared a 5GHz+ i7-10700K, but you'd still be in the top end of the list nonetheless.

 

Using the i5-8600K and i7-8700K / i7-8086K stock frequency numbers...just to see where the CPU sits.

(Just pulling some graphs)

 

 

 

 

 

[IndyRex]

If the 3070 is enough to rival a 2080Ti? I agree with the above post, you should be fine. My original PC, had a similar configuration before I built my newest PC with a 3900X, and to tell you the truth? The performance difference wasn't as significant as I thought it'd be. In fact, I'm planning on putting my 2080Ti back into the old one to use as a VR-friendly living room PC, once the new cards come out I'll be putting one of those into my recent build.