Will a GPU upgrade bottleneck me?

[Jonny1073]

Budget (including currency): Enough for a 3060 at normal MSRP, whenever that comes around again

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern Triple A titles, VR games

Other details: Current CPU is a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16 GB of 3200 MHz RAM. 1060 6GB Founder's Edition is current GPU 

 

Whenever the 3060 can come back to actual prices that normal people can afford, I'd be lookin' to buy it. As listed above, I like to play VR games. From unoptimized ones like VRChat to polished titles like Half Life: Alyx. My current GPU can run VR games but that's on an original HTC Vive, which is an old headset with a drastically worse screen than something like an Index. I'm pretty sure a 3060 will be able to smash the resolution requirements of modern VR headsets and run everything at a smooth 90 fps but my main concern is whether or not I'm creating a major bottleneck by pairing it with a Ryzen 5 3600. I never fully know about things like bottlenecks because I don't want to claw through all the benchmark numbers. I'm fin with leaving a little bit of performance on the table but if a drastic amount of the 3060's performance gets lost with a bottleneck, I'd rather just save more money and wait longer until the whole chip shortage settles out. 

 

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, Jonny1073 said:

Budget (including currency): Enough for a 3060 at normal MSRP, whenever that comes around again

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern Triple A titles, VR games

Other details: Current CPU is a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16 GB of 3200 MHz RAM. 1060 6GB Founder's Edition is current GPU 

 

Whenever the 3060 can come back to actual prices that normal people can afford, I'd be lookin' to buy it. As listed above, I like to play VR games. From unoptimized ones like VRChat to polished titles like Half Life: Alyx. My current GPU can run VR games but that's on an original HTC Vive, which is an old headset with a drastically worse screen than something like an Index. I'm pretty sure a 3060 will be able to smash the resolution requirements of modern VR headsets and run everything at a smooth 90 fps but my main concern is whether or not I'm creating a major bottleneck by pairing it with a Ryzen 5 3600. I never fully know about things like bottlenecks because I don't want to claw through all the benchmark numbers. I'm fin with leaving a little bit of performance on the table but if a drastic amount of the 3060's performance gets lost with a bottleneck, I'd rather just save more money and wait longer until the whole chip shortage settles out. 

 

There shouldn’t really be any bottleneck at any resolution.

[ministrsinister]

Yeah, your processor is really good and honestly even if you went with a 3070 you shouldn't experience any concerning bottleneck