Does 6700K bottleneck rtx 2080 s?

[frozensun]

I thought to get 11700k cuz my cpu now is quite old (5 y).

I play mostly older titles like far cry 5,shadow of the tomb raider,witcher 3,batman arkham knight at 1440p all maxed out settings.

So I wonder would switching to 11700k at 1440p be worth invetstment?

The only like low fps I do get is in shadow of...  where even fps in some scenes drops to around 60.

My cpu runs at 4.5GHz overclocked no heat issues.

[MorbidAngel]

This is a great video to show what bottlenecking looks like and it's something you can try yourself since you have the game that they're testing.

[frozensun]

Judging by this not so much...

[Moonzy]

run MSI afterburner in background and monitor GPU usage

if it's not pinned at 95 or higher, means something else is limiting its performance, and it's most likely the CPU, then upgrading would make sense

[frozensun]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

run MSI afterburner in background and monitor GPU usage

if it's not pinned at 95 or higher, means something else is limiting its performance, and it's most likely the CPU, then upgrading would make sense

I ran msi ab osd in games and gpu usage is 95-100%.

I suppose then it's okay.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, frozensun said:

I ran msi ab osd in games and gpu usage is 95-100%.

I suppose then it's okay.

then upgrading CPU might see frametime stability, but not necessarily more avg fps

[frozensun]

Excuse me,in some scenes in FC GPU usage drops as low as 60 %,but like average is around hmm 85-90 %..

Besides fps never drops below 100 which makes a game perfectly playable.

So when a GPU is not under load of 95-100 % it means that cpu is bottleneck with GPU?

[Mister Woof]

Sometimes yes sometimes no, depends on the game, specific environments in that game, and settings.

[frozensun]

Well my personal opinion is that in graphical intense scenes,like water reflection,smoke etc I see that GPU load increases,which is okay.

In some scenes where graphics is like average of detail like internal enviroment it drops to 60 %.

my opinion is that doesn't necessary mean that CPU is bottlenecking.

[Mister Woof]

56 minutes ago, frozensun said:

Well my personal opinion is that in graphical intense scenes,like water reflection,smoke etc I see that GPU load increases,which is okay.

In some scenes where graphics is like average of detail like internal enviroment it drops to 60 %.

my opinion is that doesn't necessary mean that CPU is bottlenecking.

Well you'll never be at a 100% on both so either the CPU is limiting or the GPU is limiting. This changes throughout gameplay and even with the best hardware it's not going to completely go away.

 

This is part of why reviewers report 1% and 0.1% lows.