Is this a bottleneck?

[tomino15]

Hi, just wanna know your opinon. I have i3-10100F. I had GTX 1660S, but maneged to get a RTX 2060. Is the CPU gonna be a bottlneck for the 2060? IK, mby a stupind question, don't hate me pls

[Downkey]

3 minutes ago, tomino15 said:

Hi, just wanna know your opinon. I have i3-10100F. I had GTX 1660S, but maneged to get a RTX 2060. Is the CPU gonna be a bottlneck for the 2060? IK, mby a stupind question, don't hate me pls

should be fine. The 10100 performs similarly to a i7 6700
Would help if the RAM was running at 3200MHZ

[Tom and Me]

The 10th gen i3 is actually pretty decent. Il quote you a thread from one of my topics to show you if it would bottleneck.

[Pikatchu]

Short answer, yes. Maybe try and get an i5-10400? If you want.

[Downkey]

3 minutes ago, Pikatchu said:

Short answer, yes. Maybe try and get an i5-10400? If you want.

I don't think it will bottlebeck. The 10100 is pretty good

[Tom and Me]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

I don't think it will bottlebeck. The 10100 is pretty good

Yeah.

[tomino15]

1 minute ago, Pikatchu said:

Short answer, yes. Maybe try and get an i5-10400? If you want.

Maybe a better question would be how big a bottleneck it is in comparison to the 1660S?

CPU upgrade is not really what a want right now, but if I manage to sell this one and buy an i5, then sure.

Will the i5 be that big of an upgrade? Because I think it will lose a lot of price/performance ratio.

2 minutes ago, Tom and Me said:

The 10th gen i3 is actually pretty decent. Il quote you a thread from one of my topics to show you if it would bottleneck.

Thx

2 minutes ago, Downkey said:

should be fine. The 10100 performs similarly to a i7 6700
Would help if the RAM was running at 3200MHZ

  

I mean, don't get me wrong, i got the 10100 for like 80 euros, thats crazy value imho. Unfortunately, it only supports 2666 MHZ.

[Hairless Monkey]

7 minutes ago, tomino15 said:

Maybe a better question would be how big a bottleneck it is in comparison to the 1660S?

Not much, if any. If an i7-6700 can handle a GTX 1080 (it can), then an i3 10100 can handle an RTX 2060. These are each comparable in performance to each other.

 

You'll be perfectly fine, an upgrade to your CPU won't do much at all, unless you are trying to get hundreds of fps on low graphics settings.

[boggy77]

should be fine

[Tom and Me]

2 minutes ago, tomino15 said:

Maybe a better question would be how big a bottleneck it is in comparison to the 1660S?

CPU upgrade is not really what a want right now, but if I manage to sell this one and buy an i5, then sure.

Will the i5 be that big of an upgrade? Because I think it will lose a lot of price/performance ratio.

Thx

  

I mean, don't get me wrong, i got the 10100 for like 80 euros, thats crazy value imho. Unfortunately, it only supports 2666 MHZ.

Couldn’t find the reply, but it shouldn’t bottleneck TOO much, i suggest going on youtube searching for benchmarks with your specs and usually those vids have that colom of numbers. Somewhere there it should say “GPU usage” and then “%” Watch that number and if it doesn’t go above 70% usage then there’s a problem.

[tomino15]

3 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Not much, if any. If an i7-6700 can handle a GTX 1080 (it can), then an i3 10100 can handle an RTX 2060. These are each comparable in performance to each other.

 

You'll be perfectly fine, an upgrade to your CPU won't do much at all, unless you are trying to get hundreds of fps on low graphics settings.

Thx, was hoping for exactly this kind of logic

1 minute ago, Tom and Me said:

Couldn’t find the reply, but it shouldn’t bottleneck TOO much, i suggest going on youtube searching for benchmarks with your specs and usually those vids have that colom of numbers. Somewhere there it should say “GPU usage” and then “%” Watch that number and if it doesn’t go above 70% usage then there’s a problem.

Yeah, fair enought, completely forgot to search youtube before typing here, thx

Buuut, i already managed to look at OpenhardwareMonitor stats in some games and I saw 100% core util, that's a good sign, isn't it?

[Pikatchu]

13 minutes ago, tomino15 said:

Maybe a better question would be how big a bottleneck it is in comparison to the 1660S?

CPU upgrade is not really what a want right now, but if I manage to sell this one and buy an i5, then sure.

Will the i5 be that big of an upgrade? Because I think it will lose a lot of price/performance ratio.

It will lose price/performance ratio, I agree with that.

 

My thought process is that you will be pairing the CPU (i3 or i5) with the 2060. For an i3, you are really pushing it to work hard. I don't know your resolution of your monitor or games you will be playing, so I assumed two scenarios: esport titles and triple A titles.

For esport titles, assuming you want the highest FPS you can get, the i3 will be working real hard feeding the GPU. I look at the i5 not necessarily for more thread, but higher clock speed.

7 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

You'll be perfectly fine, an upgrade to your CPU won't do much at all, unless you are trying to get hundreds of fps on low graphics settings.

For triple A titles, your CPU will be working less hard as most of them are highly GPU bound before your CPU becomes a problem, but having a faster CPU would help depending, again, on which resolution you play at.

 

I personally have an i7-8700 paired with RTX 3080. In triple A games, my GPU is working its ass off while my CPU is just hanging. But once I start playing shooters like Apex or Rainbow Six Siege, my CPU will be working its ass off while my GPU is just hanging. So in my case, I would like to upgrade my CPU to push for higher frams in shooters. But if I focus on triple A titles, I am still GPU bound so CPU upgrade wont do much for me.

[tomino15]

31 minutes ago, Pikatchu said:

It will lose price/performance ratio, I agree with that.

 

My thought process is that you will be pairing the CPU (i3 or i5) with the 2060. For an i3, you are really pushing it to work hard. I don't know your resolution of your monitor or games you will be playing, so I assumed two scenarios: esport titles and triple A titles.

For esport titles, assuming you want the highest FPS you can get, the i3 will be working real hard feeding the GPU. I look at the i5 not necessarily for more thread, but higher clock speed.

For triple A titles, your CPU will be working less hard as most of them are highly GPU bound before your CPU becomes a problem, but having a faster CPU would help depending, again, on which resolution you play at.

 

I personally have an i7-8700 paired with RTX 3080. In triple A games, my GPU is working its ass off while my CPU is just hanging. But once I start playing shooters like Apex or Rainbow Six Siege, my CPU will be working its ass off while my GPU is just hanging. So in my case, I would like to upgrade my CPU to push for higher frams in shooters. But if I focus on triple A titles, I am still GPU bound so CPU upgrade wont do much for me.

Yes, so probably the 2070 or higher will be bottlenecked, as I am pushing it to the limits by now...

I have just 2x 1080p monitors  playing a mix of e-sport and AAA.

Yea, that's what I think too