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[aidantt]

is it possible to bottleneck a gpu? like a ryzen 9 5950x with a gt 710?

[NineEyeRon]

Any part can be a bottleneck, the work being performed will determine what part.

[CommanderAlex]

Not really possible, you're pairing a high-end CPU with a low-end GPU. Both products are at two different spectrums of the product lineup. 

[Ravendarat]

I mean technically if you have bad cooling in your case you would thermal throttle the GPU which could be considered a form of a bottle neck, with cooling being the bottle neck itself

[aidantt]

5 minutes ago, SpiderMan said:

Not really possible, you're pairing a high-end CPU with a low-end GPU. Both products are at two different spectrums of the product lineup. 

so i could get a r5 3600 and a gt 710 and it will work? i am wondering if someone could just use it as just a method of displaying a screen and upgrade later

 

[CommanderAlex]

1 minute ago, aidantt said:

so i could get a r5 3600 and a gt 710 and it will work? i am wondering if someone could just use it as just a method of displaying a screen and upgrade later

 

Yeah, that'll work perfectly fine. The Ryzen R5 3600 is a lot more newer and faster of a CPU compared to CPUs released at the time of a GT 710. It's still a capable CPU so pairing it with a higher-end graphics card down the line (i.e R5 3600 & RTX 3060/RX 6700) would be fine. There is nothing here that would bottleneck (assuming not high-end and upgrading to a GPU released in the next couple of years, but will require testing). 

[emosun]

3 minutes ago, aidantt said:

so i could get a r5 3600 and a gt 710 and it will work? i am wondering if someone could just use it as just a method of displaying a screen and upgrade later

yeah. thats how standardization is 

[aidantt]

Just now, emosun said:

yeah. thats how standardization is 

 

Just now, emosun said:

yeah. thats how standardization is 

you are saying it wont explode or anything?

wow! i fell dumb lol

 

[Ash_Kechummm]

3 minutes ago, aidantt said:

so i could get a r5 3600 and a gt 710 and it will work? i am wondering if someone could just use it as just a method of displaying a screen and upgrade later

 

You can always do that, there's nothing stopping you; a bottleneck isn't a bad thing, it just means upgrading that part will result in a large increase in performance.

[Ash_Kechummm]

Just now, aidantt said:

 

you are saying it wont explode or anything?

wow! i fell dumb lol

 

It won't explode at all, unless you buy faulty parts (which is always the case, nothing specific to this case)

[emosun]

1 minute ago, aidantt said:

you are saying it wont explode or anything?

no , its a pci-e slot and a pci-e gpu. is there something thats needs clarification? 

[aidantt]

2 minutes ago, Ash_Kechummm said:

You can always do that, there's nothing stopping you; a bottleneck isn't a bad thing, it just means upgrading that part will result in a large increase in performance.

thanks so much i thought that a bottleneck will like destroy the system or catch on fire lol

[Freakwise]

21 minutes ago, aidantt said:

is it possible to bottleneck a gpu? like a ryzen 9 5950x with a gt 710?

There's always a bottleneck in every system but, your example is definitely a worse case scenario....

[MildIrritant]

The concept of a bottleneck is not something catastrophical. It just means that a specific component is slow and you are probably missing on better performance for a given workload. For instance, the system you are describing will show an increased bottleneck for GAMING, since the CPU is that much better than your GPU. Notice the emphasis on gaming. If you want it for other workloads, such as regular use, browsing, text editing, coding and such, then the GPU is not going to slow you down at all, since all you want is a simple display output. It all depends on the use case.

[Jzuken]

1 hour ago, aidantt said:

is it possible to bottleneck a gpu? like a ryzen 9 5950x with a gt 710?

Get a ryzen 2200g and use that unless you really need a powerful CPU, but not a powerful GPU (What for? Compiling stuff?). That way when GPU prices go down you can upgrade both your GPU and get a 5950x or even something like 5950xt for decent price.

[aidantt]

4 minutes ago, Jzuken said:

Get a ryzen 2200g and use that unless you really need a powerful CPU, but not a powerful GPU (What for? Compiling stuff?). That way when GPU prices go down you can upgrade both your GPU and get a 5950x or even something like 5950xt for decent price.

that was just an example

[Jzuken]

8 minutes ago, aidantt said:

that was just an example

Bottleneck depends on the way that you are using your hardware. If you are mining Etherium you can plug 8 RTX 3090 into a Pentium G4560 and the GPUs would still be a "bottleneck". If you are compiling Chrome with 64-core Threadripper and have a GT710 in your system, that Threadripper would be a "bottleneck".

 

If you are gaming, I'd say a good formula to keep away from bottlenecking is to have a GPU that is 1.5 times more expensive than your CPU (considering MSRP prices). For example Ryzen 3900x with RTX 3070, or Ryzen 5900x with RTX 3080, or Intel i5-10500 with RTX 3060.

 

But of course if game is more CPU-bound, you need better CPU, if you are playing VR you need better GPU.