Is a 2080 Super gonna bottleneck a 5900x at 1080p?

[probablydumb]

Hello everyone,i think the title suggests just about everything,im just wondering if my GPU is bottlenecking my CPU since i have heard a lot of stories of people bottlenecking their 5000 series CPU's with their GPU's.

[Skiiwee29]

Nope. The 5900x is pretty much the best CPU on the market for 1080p gaming. 

[probablydumb]

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Nope. The 5900x is pretty much the best CPU on the market for 1080p gaming. 

Bet,i was just wondering since i recently bought the 5900x and thought my 2080 Super would be a good pair,after countless stories of people all over the internet telling me that i am bottlenecking my CPU with the 2080 Super i got curious if i really am.

[Mister Woof]

5900x can probably push out more frames than the 2080S can at 1080p in some games, so yes I would say you are going to be GPU limited most of the time.

 

That said the 2080Super is fine, and if you have a choice to be CPU or GPU limited, being GPU limited is optimal

[LIGISTX]

24 minutes ago, probablydumb said:

Bet,i was just wondering since i recently bought the 5900x and thought my 2080 Super would be a good pair,after countless stories of people all over the internet telling me that i am bottlenecking my CPU with the 2080 Super i got curious if i really am.

Yes. You are "bottlenecking" your CPU. But..... this term is wildly overused.

 

Technically, yes, your CPU can push more FPS then your GPU will be able to. So that is a bottleneck. If you put a 3090 in your PC, you would get more FPS.... that is the definition of a bottleneck. But that isn't inherently bad or an issue. It just means that yes, you could get more FPS with other parts. Every PC has a bottleneck, if a PC had 0 bottlenecks you would get infinite FPS. 

 

Your system is fine, especially for 1080p gaming. You are likely getting 150+ FPS in most games which is fantastic.

[Blue4130]

36 minutes ago, probablydumb said:

Hello everyone,i think the title suggests just about everything,im just wondering if my GPU is bottlenecking my CPU since i have heard a lot of stories of people bottlenecking their 5000 series CPU's with their GPU's.

Completely depends on what software or games you are playing. Each game will be different. With that said, you have a pretty balanced system, just use it and don't worry about  "people all over the internet telling" you stuff..... except for us in this thread. Listen to us  

[probablydumb]

22 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Yes. You are "bottlenecking" your CPU. But..... this term is wildly overused.

 

Technically, yes, your CPU can push more FPS then your GPU will be able to. So that is a bottleneck. If you put a 3090 in your PC, you would get more FPS.... that is the definition of a bottleneck. But that isn't inherently bad or an issue. It just means that yes, you could get more FPS with other parts. Every PC has a bottleneck, if a PC had 0 bottlenecks you would get infinite FPS. 

 

Your system is fine, especially for 1080p gaming. You are likely getting 150+ FPS in most games which is fantastic.

I asked this question since before my 5900x i had a 3600x that was paired together with this 2080 Super of mine and i was kind of afraid that somehow in someway the bottleneck would be so big that im better off using my old 3600x instead of the 5900x.I guess i was just afraid of gaining no performance after buying this 500$ CPU.

[LIGISTX]

4 hours ago, probablydumb said:

I asked this question since before my 5900x i had a 3600x that was paired together with this 2080 Super of mine and i was kind of afraid that somehow in someway the bottleneck would be so big that im better off using my old 3600x instead of the 5900x.I guess i was just afraid of gaining no performance after buying this 500$ CPU.

That’s not how that works… yes, technically your GPU is a bottle neck right now. But that doesn’t mean a slower CPU would make it better, your GPU will be a bottleneck with your 3600x, but a faster CPU will make more FPS.

 

People think of this all completely wrong. It’s all about what makes the most sense. A i3 and a i7 will both technically bottleneck a 3090 because a i9 or a 5900x with that same 3090 will produce more FPS… but does the price difference make sense? An i3 and a 3090 doesn’t make much sense because you spent way too much on GPU and not enough on CPU.  But a 5900x and a gtx 970 doesn’t make sense either for the same reason, just in the opposite direction. So, yes. Your GPU “is a bottleneck to what the full potential of your 5900x is capable of”, but if you switch back to a 3600 you will likely lose ~5-10% fps. I would argue it would have made more sense to get a faster GPU for more fps instead of a faster CPU, but nothing wrong with a 2080. 

[Guest]

5 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

Yes. You are "bottlenecking" your CPU. But..... this term is wildly overused.

You have gotten that right!! 

The only drag on a system is if the CPU technology is either faster or slower than the GPU technology with single digit differences with overclocking maybe.

How can 2 top end units be a "bottle-neck" when there's really nothing faster to compare it to? 

1080P on a 2080s is just way overkill for this resolution. 4K 60fps would be outstanding performance and perhaps give the card a work out XD.

 

[xg32]

usually when a cpu bottlenecks a gpu it's more trouble then the other way around, hitting the cpu wall often means stuttering, the 5900x is the fastest gaming cpu out there but i wouldn't say it's time to swap out a 2080S 

 

unless you are playing very specific games  (i'm kidding),

 

This video has single core + ram bandwidth bottleneck at 1080p, gpu bottleneck for 1440p+

stuff like apex and or 4k 120hz and shortages is why i'm in no hurry for a gpu upgrade, and i'm confident ur cpu will be able to handle next gen gpus just fine

[Gohardgrandpa]

The 2080 super at 1080p won't be an issue. You should be able to crank the settings in most games with no issues at all. 

I was using a 2070 super at 1440p and it wasn't an issue in most games 

[HardStroke]

20 hours ago, Mister Woof said:

5900x can probably push out more frames than the 2080S can at 1080p in some games, so yes I would say you are going to be GPU limited most of the time.

 

That said the 2080Super is fine, and if you have a choice to be CPU or GPU limited, being GPU limited is optimal

Almost every single game if not every game is hitting a GPU bottleneck, even with a 3090

GPUs are just not as strong as CPUs even when you push them to the limit (when talking about game bottlenecks)