30 Series and Gaming Question

Mondale · June 18, 2021

I running an EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 (overclocked) with a 8700k cpu and a 240hz 1080p monitor getting really good performance while gaming. I've read where other's have the same cpu and are bottlenecking a lot with the graphics turned down to reach the highest framerate possible. My question is, if I turned the graphics up some, would there be more or less of a bottleneck? Would it perform any better or worse?

jones177 · June 18, 2021

2 hours ago, Mondale said:

I running an EVGA RTX 3070 FTW3 (overclocked) with a 8700k cpu and a 240hz 1080p monitor getting really good performance while gaming. I've read where other's have the same cpu and are bottlenecking a lot with the graphics turned down to reach the highest framerate possible. My question is, if I turned the graphics up some, would there be more or less of a bottleneck? Would it perform any better or worse?

I usually test at high & ultra since that is usually the worst case scenario for a bottleneck. With those settings about 1/3 of my games have close to the same frames at 1440p as 1080p.

This is RDR 2 with Hardware Unboxed settings. It is with a i7 8086k and a 2080 ti so close to the performance of your rig. 1080p is pointless with these settings.