gpu RTX 3070

[5M1FFY5]

Hey, so I’m looking to upgrade from my 1060 3GB to the 3070 when it is released and I was wondering if people think it would place and bottlenecks on my CPU which is a i5 8600KF?

[Oswin]

rest of system specs? also at what resolution and quality?

[Mark Kaine]

well I think this is hard to say for now and since reviewers always seem to use the newest bestest top of the line CPU (for reasons) it will probably be for a while (besides they aren't even out yet lol)

[Avolate]

Well a 6700k wont bottlneck a 2080 ti and the 3070 is supposed to be really close to that level of performance.   So it should be ok. 

[BTGbullseye]

10 hours ago, Avolate said:

Well a 6700k wont bottlneck a 2080 ti and the 3070 is supposed to be really close to that level of performance.   So it should be ok. 

But an 8700k (about 15% better performance) will slightly bottleneck a 3080, so we don't know for sure. I would guess the DDR3 limitations and reduced core count would be the main bottlenecks for the 6700k.

[Avolate]

6700k Skylake does use DDR4.  

[BTGbullseye]

20 hours ago, Avolate said:

6700k Skylake does use DDR4.  

Yes, but only at DDR3 speeds. (baseline DDR4 at best, which is 2133) I was using the moniker as a performance class measurement.

[Mister Woof]

Well the dude doesnt have a 6700k he's got an 8600k, so the ddr speeds might not apply.

 

Op: look at 8600k/9600k benchmarks with a 2080ti and that should probably be a decent approximation of what you might expect with a 3070.

 

 

[BTGbullseye]

2 minutes ago, Mister Woof said:

Well the dude doesnt have a 6700k he's got an 8600k, so the ddr speeds might not apply.

They don't apply to @OP, however they do apply to the reply that said that the 6700k wouldn't bottleneck a 2080TI, and was used to indicate that the 8700k wouldn't bottleneck a 3080.

[Mister Woof]

38 minutes ago, BTGbullseye said:

They don't apply to @OP, however they do apply to the reply that said that the 6700k wouldn't bottleneck a 2080TI, and was used to indicate that the 8700k wouldn't bottleneck a 3080.

I think everything's bottlenecking a 3080 right now at 1440p and lower, just some worse than others.

[Username1402]

On 9/26/2020 at 8:02 AM, 5M1FFY5 said:

Hey, so I’m looking to upgrade from my 1060 3GB to the 3070 when it is released and I was wondering if people think it would place and bottlenecks on my CPU which is a i5 8600KF?

I am doing the same upgrade and I have decided to upgrade to a i7 9700 so I get the most out of the 3070!