Bottleneck?

[LM Games]

What does everyone think about pairing an RTX 3080 with a ryzen 3600 over locked to 3.8 GHz with 16gb 3600mhz Corsair memory for running things like CS:GO , Total War Games and Star Wars titles like Battlefront 2 and Squadrons?

 

[dj_ripcord]

Isn't BASE clock for the 3600 3.8Ghz?

No matter. You will be just barely pushing the limits of that CPU with an RTX 3000 series. You can probably get away with it, but according to https://pc-builds.com/calculator/Ryzen_5_3600X/GeForce_RTX_2080_Ti/0Um12n8A/8/100/ you will be about 80% usage with just an RTX 2080Ti.

 

There is no performance data on the 3000 series yet, so I cannot make a certain decision for you. Use this information with a grain of salt.

[Mateyyy]

It'll work. Unless you're trying to go for really high framerates at 1080p, I wouldn't stress over it.

11 minutes ago, LM Games said:

a ryzen 3600 over locked to 3.8 GHz

That's more like a downclock though. The 3600 at stock should be boosting to ~4GHz on all cores.

[LM Games]

21 minutes ago, dj_ripcord said:

Isn't BASE clock for the 3600 3.8Ghz?

No matter. You will be just barely pushing the limits of that CPU with an RTX 3000 series. You can probably get away with it, but according to https://pc-builds.com/calculator/Ryzen_5_3600X/GeForce_RTX_2080_Ti/0Um12n8A/8/100/ you will be about 80% usage with just an RTX 2080Ti.

 

There is no performance data on the 3000 series yet, so I cannot make a certain decision for you. Use this information with a grain of salt.

Sorry I meant overclocked to 3.8ghz base clock and still boosting to 4.5ghz

[Lord Bloobus]

Your CPU is perfectly fine for the 3000 series, there will be very minimal bottleneck if any since bottleneck is hard to measure.

[Moonzy]

if you're on 1080p then it's probably gonna be cpu bound

but if you're on 1440p or 4k, then it depends on games and graphical settings