Moved from 1080p to 4K how to think about bottlenecking?

[UhreForFan]

Hello!

I just moved from a 1080p 144hz to a 4K 120hz OLED display.

 

I have a ryzen 5 1600 and a RTX2070 (not super)

 

I think about upgrading (well you know when something is actually available) and find it much harder to wrap my head around how to think in regards to bottlenecking. I knew on 1080p that I was CPU bottlenecked, but is that really true at 4K? What is better to upgrade first CPU or GPU?

[SavageNeo]

3 minutes ago, UhreForFan said:

I think about upgrading (well you know when something is actually available) and find it much harder to wrap my head around how to think in regards to bottlenecking. I knew on 1080p that I was CPU bottlenecked, but is that really true at 4K? What is better to upgrade first CPU or GPU?

Depends at 4k 1600 should only bottleneck at cpu intensive games like CSGO, cod Warzone or RDR2. otherwise a gpu upgrade makes more sense first. What games do you play? Also what rm config you have now?

[light-v]

Your GPU is most definitely gonna be the bottleneck at 4K, in fact the difference between Zen 1 and Zen 3 at 4K are minimal even 1440p is a significant bottleneck 

 

Have a look for yourself:

 

 

[Stahlmann]

At 4K you're gonna be completely GPU limited in most games. Even with a 1600. And upgrading to a 3080 or so will still result in a GPU bottleneck at 4K.

[UhreForFan]

Okay thank you all very much! Now I know that I can focus on finding a better GPU rather than CPU. 

 

I don't play competitive games like CS:GO and when I do its for fun. So I don't care about that kind of performance. I just want to have a smooth (75-120fps experience) on my games, with as good visuals as I can.

 

Its quiet interesting how I can "Save" money on my CPU by upgrading to a 4K display. Its offsets the cost of the 4K upgrade in some way.

 

[SavageNeo]

1 minute ago, UhreForFan said:

Okay thank you all very much! Now I know that I can focus on finding a better GPU rather than CPU. 

 

I don't play competitive games like CS:GO and when I do its for fun. So I don't care about that kind of performance. I just want to have a smooth (75-120fps experience) on my games, with as good visuals as I can.

 

Its quiet interesting how I can "Save" money on my CPU by upgrading to a 4K display. Its offsets the cost of the 4K upgrade in some way.

 

if you play story or visaul games at 4k ultra settigns it is better to go for higher end gpu. yes upgrading the cpu to 3600 or 5600x helps, but upgrading the gpu helps a lot more.