bottlneck Will i7-8700k bottleneck rtx3080

[Ishan2223]

Hey So I am a rainbow six siege player 

 My Current Setup - i7-8700k | gtx1060 | 16gb ram | 144hz monitor 

gonna be playing on 1080p and may upgrade to 240hz monitor in future 

Main Question - planning to upgrade to 3080 will my CPU be a bottleneck? 

I am posting for the first time so sorry if I made any mistakes. 

[badreg]

You'll easily be able hit 240fps at 1080p with a 8700k. A 10900k will hit higher FPS and higher 1%/0.1% lows, but I don't think that this is relevant in practice.

[Grihm]

If you feel you experience a BN, up the graphics to 1440p and you will benefit from it.

Welcome to the forums bud!

[DailyProcrastinator]

Welcome to the forum!

 

At 1080p the 3080 does not make sense, even at 1440p 144Hz a 3070 would be the better buy. The i7 8700k is a very capable CPU, if you have not already I recommend overclocking.

[HumdrumPenguin]

41 minutes ago, Ishan2223 said:

Hey So I am a rainbow six siege player 

 My Current Setup - i7-8700k | gtx1060 | 16gb ram | 144hz monitor 

gonna be playing on 1080p and may upgrade to 240hz monitor in future 

Main Question - planning to upgrade to 3080 will my CPU be a bottleneck? 

I am posting for the first time so sorry if I made any mistakes. 

Depending on the games and resolution, yes. These new cards are making current CPUs a run for their money.

 

Instead of upgrading to another 1080p monitor at an even higher refresh rate, have you considered bumping up the resolution instead, while maintaining the refresh rate? The difference, even at 1440p, will be massive and you'll likely benefit much more, not only in games, but for everything else as well.

[xg32]

51 minutes ago, Ishan2223 said:

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welcome to the forum.

 

Some actual numbers on cpu bottleneck with the 3080, 8700k should be slightly above a 3600 depending on how much you overclock it

 

 

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

[Princess Luna]

240hz is a gimmick, besides buying a 3080 for 1920x1080p lol

 

Get yourself a 2560x1440p165hz panel, and no the 8700K still games much like the i9's specially if you're not multi-tasking with other cpu heavy loads.

[BTGbullseye]

2 hours ago, Ishan2223 said:

Hey So I am a rainbow six siege player 

 My Current Setup - i7-8700k | gtx1060 | 16gb ram | 144hz monitor 

gonna be playing on 1080p and may upgrade to 240hz monitor in future 

Main Question - planning to upgrade to 3080 will my CPU be a bottleneck? 

I am posting for the first time so sorry if I made any mistakes. 

If R6S is the only game you care about, and are ultra-competitive in it already, then yes, that is a decent upgrade path. If you plan on playing any game that isn't a competitive multiplayer title, it's not really helping you to upgrade to another 1080p monitor.

 

100% your CPU is going to be the main bottleneck for your system's performance in that game, at that resolution, with an RTX 3080.

 

What PSU (not just wattage) do you have? It may not be capable of handling the 3080.

[Ishan2223]

On 9/27/2020 at 6:10 AM, BTGbullseye said:

If R6S is the only game you care about, and are ultra-competitive in it already, then yes, that is a decent upgrade path. If you plan on playing any game that isn't a competitive multiplayer title, it's not really helping you to upgrade to another 1080p monitor.

 

100% your CPU is going to be the main bottleneck for your system's performance in that game, at that resolution, with an RTX 3080.

 

What PSU (not just wattage) do you have? It may not be capable of handling the 3080.

Hey so I am a siege professional player and I only care bout siege competitive performance at the moment and my with my current setup my fps frequently dip below 144fps. 

 

What I want  is constant fps above 144 ( and maybe above 240 as I might upgrade to 240hz monitor) so if 3070 would fulfill these requirements I can go for that as well 

 

My PSU - circle gaming raw power 700w 

[BTGbullseye]

45 minutes ago, Ishan2223 said:

My PSU - circle gaming raw power 700w 

I can virtually guarantee that it won't handle any 30 series GPU. Look for a Tier A or B PSU from this list.

 

46 minutes ago, Ishan2223 said:

Hey so I am a siege professional player and I only care bout siege competitive performance at the moment and my with my current setup my fps frequently dip below 144fps. 

 

What I want  is constant fps above 144 ( and maybe above 240 as I might upgrade to 240hz monitor) so if 3070 would fulfill these requirements I can go for that as well 

A 3070 will probably work, but I'd wait for a few benchmarks of the RDNA2 GPUs (announcement on Oct 28th) and the Ryzen 5000 CPUs (announcement in just a few hours) before upgrading anything.