RTX 3080 upgrade bottleneck

[atunker]

Hey everyone,

 I’m seriously considering upgrading my build with the recently announced RTX 3080. I currently game on an ultra wide (3440x1440@100hz or 2560x1080@144hz) and my GTX 1080 no longer maxes out my display with current titles anymore at high/ultra settings. I was wondering if any of my other components would bottleneck the new card.

Here’s my Build:

Mobo: ASUS ASRock Z270 Killer SLI/AC

CPU: i7-7700k (No overclock, custom water cooled loop)

RAM: 16gb (2x8gb) G.Skill Trident Z 3000MHz

PSU: Corsair CX650M

Storage: Samsung 970 evo 500gb (boot drive), Samsung 960 evo (250gb), 500gb zHHD

 

I’ll likely be picking 2 more matching sticks of ram (32gb total). I’m thinking my power supply should power the setup still (albeit inefficiently) but am considering upgrading the PSU per NVIDIA’s recommendation. 
 

I’m wondering if anyone can identify if there will be any noticeable bottlenecks for gaming if I were to upgrade to the new 3080? Thanks guys!

 

[RadiatingLight]

I have a feeling that I'll need to repeat this constantly until the 3080s launch.

We have no benchmarks, no reviews, no performance numbers. We don't know if the 3080 will bottleneck your 7700K.

 

Best educated guess is that it would depend on the game. For most games, a powerful quad-core is still good enough (especially if you overclock), but future games (or ones that need 6+ cores) may be bottlenecked.

 

In general, and especially if you only need 60FPS, it's likely that you'll be OK.

[NineEyeRon]

Don’t worry about bottlenecks, just buy it?

[Applefreak]

Well, considering that a RTX 2080 TI will be somewhat restriced by your cpu, I am guessing it will be more so with the newer cards. Just how much is too early to tell and depends on the application or game, settings, resolutions etc. Hard to say without having seen those cards in action. Look for detailed comparisons from GamersNexus once the NDA has been lifted. However I would assume with some OC you could compensate for that. But again, way too early to make any assumptions.