Will it bottleneck

[L4lic]

I asked so many people will it bottleneck if I get GTX 1660 Super with my Intel Pentium Gold G5420 processor and everyone said it will not bottleneck and that I shouldnt have a problem but MY FRIEND WHO's 15yrs old thinks that it will bottleneck alot and that he knows better than other people so I need your opinion

[Shimejii]

6 minutes ago, L4lic said:

I asked so many people will it bottleneck if I get GTX 1660 Super with my Intel Pentium Gold G5420 processor and everyone said it will not bottleneck and that I shouldnt have a problem but MY FRIEND WHO's 15yrs old thinks that it will bottleneck alot and that he knows better than other people so I need your opinion

i mean its a dual core CPU, that will be your limitation on the system. But as a balance it should do its job for now until you can get a better one. 

[tkitch]

I swear to god, the word bottleneck needs to be banned on the forum.

 

Yes, it will bottleneck.

 

Every single PC on the planet has bottlenecks.  Every single one.

 

You cannot build a PC without a bottleneck, and what will be your bottleneck will change with every task you do on the computer.

 

Those two should work fine together.

[OhYou_]

the cpu performance is strong but games that are designed for 4 cores minimum will probably have lower results. 
the card is slow as anyway so i think it will balance out

[YoungBlade]

It completely depends on what games you are playing and at what resolution and settings.

 

At higher resolutions and graphics settings, you'll likely be GPU limited and the CPU will be fine. But at low resolutions and settings, the CPU is going to limit you. Then it depends on the type of games you're playing. Some newer AAA titles are very CPU demanding, regardless of graphics settings, so the CPU could limit you there. And for competitive titles where you tend to turn down settings to get as high of FPS as possible, the CPU will also generally be the limiting factor.

 

41 minutes ago, tkitch said:

I swear to god, the word bottleneck needs to be banned on the forum.

 

Yes, it will bottleneck.

 

Every single PC on the planet has bottlenecks.  Every single one.

 

You cannot build a PC without a bottleneck, and what will be your bottleneck will change with every task you do on the computer.

 

Those two should work fine together.

I think the issue is primarily that people asking about bottlenecks just throw out the names of two components and ask, in a vacuum, "Will it bottleneck?" which is unhelpful.

 

If people instead said something like: "I'm going to be playing CoD:Warzone using competitive settings with a Pentium G5420 and GTX 1660 Super. My computer has 16GB of DDR4-2666 memory and my monitor is 1080p 144Hz. Will the CPU bottleneck my GPU? Or is this reasonably balanced for what I'm doing?" Would you still have a problem with the term in that context?

[tkitch]

3 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

If people instead said something like: "I'm going to be playing CoD:Warzone using competitive settings with a Pentium G5420 and GTX 1660 Super. My computer has 16GB of DDR4-2666 memory and my monitor is 1080p 144Hz. Will the CPU bottleneck my GPU? Or is this reasonably balanced for what I'm doing?" Would you still have a problem with the term in that context?

Way less so, but not 0.

 

An actual bottleneck is "The CPU is never going to be fast enough to keep up with the GPU."  So, regardless of the task the CPU is the limiting factor.  (It was demonstrated a while ago when pairing like...  a 2080 TI and a Core 2 Duo or something, where the CPU straight up couldn't home to feed the GPU enough data.  That's a real bottleneck.)

 

Anything even reasonably similar in age / performance will be fine overall.  

[YoungBlade]

Just now, tkitch said:

Way less so, but not 0.

 

An actual bottleneck is "The CPU is never going to be fast enough to keep up with the GPU."  So, regardless of the task the CPU is the limiting factor.  (It was demonstrated a while ago when pairing like...  a 2080 TI and a Core 2 Duo or something, where the CPU straight up couldn't home to feed the GPU enough data.  That's a real bottleneck.)

 

Anything even reasonably similar in age / performance will be fine overall.  

I think your understanding of a bottleneck differs from the understanding most folks have, then. Generally, I see people saying that a CPU is bottlenecking a GPU if the GPU usage is usually below 90% as a result of a CPU limit. They don't think of it in terms that are that extreme.

[L4lic]

On 4/20/2023 at 11:05 PM, tkitch said:

I swear to god, the word bottleneck needs to be banned on the forum.

 

Yes, it will bottleneck.

 

Every single PC on the planet has bottlenecks.  Every single one.

 

You cannot build a PC without a bottleneck, and what will be your bottleneck will change with every task you do on the computer.

 

Those two should work fine together.

sorry if I made you mad or something I'm learing about pc and pc components I know a little bit but not too much I'm more like a software guy not a hardware guy but thanks for your opinion

 

[L4lic]

On 4/20/2023 at 11:49 PM, YoungBlade said:

It completely depends on what games you are playing and at what resolution and settings.

 

At higher resolutions and graphics settings, you'll likely be GPU limited and the CPU will be fine. But at low resolutions and settings, the CPU is going to limit you. Then it depends on the type of games you're playing. Some newer AAA titles are very CPU demanding, regardless of graphics settings, so the CPU could limit you there. And for competitive titles where you tend to turn down settings to get as high of FPS as possible, the CPU will also generally be the limiting factor.

 

I think the issue is primarily that people asking about bottlenecks just throw out the names of two components and ask, in a vacuum, "Will it bottleneck?" which is unhelpful.

 

If people instead said something like: "I'm going to be playing CoD:Warzone using competitive settings with a Pentium G5420 and GTX 1660 Super. My computer has 16GB of DDR4-2666 memory and my monitor is 1080p 144Hz. Will the CPU bottleneck my GPU? Or is this reasonably balanced for what I'm doing?" Would you still have a problem with the term in that context?

I'm playing like csgo mordhau and some of the games that dont need that strong pc but im planning on playing like FiveM R6 Apex or sum like that also im using 1360x768 resolution cause of my monitor its like a sony tv that can be used as monitor