potential bottleneck

[AzrealNoctis]

while i dont think it will, is it possible that a ryzen 5 3600 will bottleneck a 3070? again i doubt it but i figured id check.

[Zando_]

You'll be fine. 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

13 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

You'll be fine. 

you will see a bottleneck, but it wont be bat at 1440p high.

[Zando_]

Just now, HelpfulTechWizard said:

you will see a bottleneck, but it wont be bat at 1440p high.

There's a bottleneck about 100% of the time in every single application on every single PC because nothing is built to perfectly scale across 100% of the usable hardware at all times. 

There won't be any bottleneck that actually impacts the user experience in any meaningful way, thus the answer "you'll be fine". I'm not interested in stupid overcomplication for no practical reason. 

[hockayak]

Actually, to follow up on this question, i was looking for some articles re this same topic. I have seen in so many places that bottlenecking the gpu is less likely at higher res, as things then tend to be limited by the CPU. Can anyone shed a bit of light on the topic. Why does higher res impact the CPU more than the GPU?

[FaxedForward]

30 minutes ago, hockayak said:

Actually, to follow up on this question, i was looking for some articles re this same topic. I have seen in so many places that bottlenecking the gpu is less likely at higher res, as things then tend to be limited by the CPU. Can anyone shed a bit of light on the topic. Why does higher res impact the CPU more than the GPU?

You have it backwards. The CPU is typically the limiting factor at low resolutions, and the GPU is typically the limiting factor at high resolutions.

 

This post I saw elsewhere explains it very well:

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So imagine that the CPU is a professor assigning papers, and the GPU is the student who has to write them.

 

1080p is like the professor assigning a 5 paragraph open ended essay. No big deal, quick and easy for the GPU to complete. Give it back to the professor to grade and say "Okay done, give me the next assignment". This means the professor has to grade really frequently and have new prompts ready to go just about every class period, if not more often.

 

4k is like the CPU/professor assigning a 25-30 page in-depth research paper. It takes the GPU/student A LOT longer to complete something of that scale, so the professor doesn't have to grade nearly as much, and doesn't need to hand out new prompts very often because that one takes so long to complete.

 

This is how CPU/GPU work together to build the world. The CPU basically says "hey I need you to make this world", the GPU renders and says "Got it, next please", and then it repeats. If the GPU takes longer amount of time before it asks for the next frame, the CPU has to give less instruction.

 

[PrinnyExplodes]

10 hours ago, AzrealNoctis said:

while i dont think it will, is it possible that a ryzen 5 3600 will bottleneck a 3070? again i doubt it but i figured id check.

You won't see a bottleneck so don't worry