Possible Bottleneck/Upgrades

[Not A Idiot]

I have a Ryzen 5 8500G and an RX 6500 XT, can anyone tell me if I have a bottleneck? I also have 16 gigs of 5600MHz RAM, one stick, 1.5TB of SSD storage, 512 GB on an NVMe M.2 drive and 1TB on a 2.5" SATA drive. I use it for gaming and some office productivity. I use the stock cooler that came with my CPU. I also have a ASUS B650 prime II wifi M-ATX motherboard. Also, how can I tell the BIOS version on my motherboard without opening up my PC? I still have the part boxes, but I no longer have the accessories or screws that came with everything. Please let me know if the CPU bottlenecks the GPU or vice versa. Also let me know any upgrades under $100 that will seriously improve preformance.

[strange13930]

there's basically no bottleneck with this system, though when you get the chance I would upgrade the gpu. I had the 6500 xt but upgraded to the 1060 6gb(from 9 years ago) and the 1060 performs better.

[jordanbuilds1]

Just now, strange13930 said:

there's basically no bottleneck with this system, though when you get the chance I would upgrade the gpu. I had the 6500 xt but upgraded to the 1060 6gb(from 9 years ago) and the 1060 performs better.

the 6500xt was bad value when it came out, kinda reminds me of the r9 390x being clapped by the 1060

[Not A Idiot]

24 minutes ago, strange13930 said:

there's basically no bottleneck with this system, though when you get the chance I would upgrade the gpu. I had the 6500 xt but upgraded to the 1060 6gb(from 9 years ago) and the 1060 performs better.

uhhh... my 6500 XT has 8 GB of VRAM

[strange13930]

6 minutes ago, cat_B0T_Gaming said:

uhhh... my 6500 XT has 8 GB of VRAM

Ok, one day you will have to upgrade your gpu like everyone does but since you have the 8gb version it's not as needed right now.

[Not A Idiot]

3 minutes ago, strange13930 said:

Ok, one day you will have to upgrade your gpu like everyone does but since you have the 8gb version it's not as needed right now.

thank you

[thevictor390]

All systems have a bottleneck at all times. Your bottleneck depends on what you are doing.For gaming this system is most likely held back by the GPU, but it depends on the game and resolution/framerate target. For office productivity the GPU is basically irrelevant and you are "limited" by your CPU/RAM, but I put limited in quotes because that limit is quite high, you should not have problems.

[Not A Idiot]

7 minutes ago, thevictor390 said:

All systems have a bottleneck at all times. Your bottleneck depends on what you are doing.For gaming this system is most likely held back by the GPU, but it depends on the game and resolution/framerate target. For office productivity the GPU is basically irrelevant and you are "limited" by your CPU/RAM, but I put limited in quotes because that limit is quite high, you should not have problems.

This is the solution to bottleneck

[Not A Idiot]

1 hour ago, strange13930 said:

there's basically no bottleneck with this system, though when you get the chance I would upgrade the gpu. I had the 6500 xt but upgraded to the 1060 6gb(from 9 years ago) and the 1060 performs better.

this is the solution to upgrades

[Not A Idiot]

Please focus on how to check bios version without opening PC now

[strange13930]

it could be on the last four digits of the barcode, on the motherboard box, or on a sticker on the motherboard. If its not in any of those places you will most likely have to boot it up to see the version.