Graphic card upgrade is my old cpu enough?

[Rexx]

Hi, im thinking about upgrading my gpu to one of the new nvidia card either the 3070 or 3080. Then i want to know if my cpu will bottleneck my system while playing certain games? Right now i have an AMD RYZEN 3600

[charlie_c137]

There may be some slight bottlenecking on CPU heavy games but you should be alright. How many watts is your PSU?

[xg32]

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-ampere-cpu-scaling-benchmarks

 

TLDR it's a 30% bottleneck at 1080p, 15% at 1440p  5% at 4k, doesn't mean u wont benefit from the gpu upgrade though., the 3080 is beast.

 

it also depends on what refresh rate ur monitor is.

[PlayStation 2]

...the Ryzen 5 3600 is old? News to me, I guess.

[Rexx]

20 minutes ago, charlie_c137 said:

There may be some slight bottlenecking on CPU heavy games but you should be alright. How many watts is your PSU?

I think my psu is 650w

12 minutes ago, handymanshandle said:

...the Ryzen 5 3600 is old? News to me, I guess.

Never said it was old, just asking if it could bottleneck my system.

[charlie_c137]

As long as its a good PSU you should be ok. As far as the 3600, I say go for it unless you feel it's time to upgrade. 

[PlayStation 2]

36 minutes ago, Rexx said:

Never said it was old, just asking if it could bottleneck my system.

Maybe your grasp of English is better than mine, but I suspect that you didn't read the title of your own thread.

 

In any case, you should be fine in most use cases with your 3600 with a 3080.