Would an i5-4590 bottleneck a GTX 780 Ti?

[SuperCactus]

I've had this i5-4590/GTX 780 Ti combo for awhile now. I upgraded from a 270X and I assumed a GTX 780 Ti would give much larger performance, but unfortunately it only increased FPS by 15%

 

I play Starcraft 2 and from 270X to 780Ti increased the average FPS from 70 to 80. I don't think that's very reasonable. A GTX 780Ti is way more powerful than a 270X.

 

I'm wondering if it could use a 4790K, but I'm not willing to pay $290 for it (which is $90 more than a 4590) unless it will really boost my FPS high.

 

So am I really getting CPU bottlenecked? What to do?

[Dabombinable]

I've had this i5-4590/GTX 780 Ti combo for awhile now. I upgraded from a 270X and I assumed a GTX 780 Ti would give much larger performance, but unfortunately it only increased FPS by 15%

 

I play Starcraft 2 and from 270X to 780Ti increased the average FPS from 70 to 80. I don't think that's very reasonable. A GTX 780Ti is way more powerful than a 270X.

 

I'm wondering if it could use a 4790K, but I'm not willing to pay $290 for it (which is $90 more than a 4590) unless it will really boost my FPS high.

 

So am I really getting CPU bottlenecked? What to do?

It wouldn't bottleneck a Titan X so no.

[MegaDave91]

If you are playing at 1080p then it possibly is.

[FairladyZ]

CPU isn't really a huge bottleneck...unless you do something like a P4 with a GTX 980, but 4590 doesn't bottleneck 295x2 from what I know, so it won't bottleneck 780Ti

[TheKDub]

I've had this i5-4590/GTX 780 Ti combo for awhile now. I upgraded from a 270X and I assumed a GTX 780 Ti would give much larger performance, but unfortunately it only increased FPS by 15%

 

I play Starcraft 2 and from 270X to 780Ti increased the average FPS from 70 to 80. I don't think that's very reasonable. A GTX 780Ti is way more powerful than a 270X.

 

I'm wondering if it could use a 4790K, but I'm not willing to pay $290 for it (which is $90 more than a 4590) unless it will really boost my FPS high.

 

So am I really getting CPU bottlenecked? What to do?

 

No.

 

That CPU will not bottleneck any single or most multi-gpu setups.

 

Did you uninstall old drivers and install new drivers?

[Hieb]

Depends on the game and settings you play at. If you're looking to play games at high resolution, max settings etc. then no, that will almost never hold back the 780 Ti. If you're looking to play at extremely high framerates and want to push 120/144 FPS, then yeah the 4590 will hold it back in some games.

 

In terms of Starcraft 2, that's just a very CPU-bound game. Getting an i7 also won't make much of a difference since Starcraft is held back mainly by 1 core. You'd get better framerates in Starcraft if you had a 4690K overclocked to like 4.5GHz.

[stconquest]

Isn't SC2 CPU intensive?

 

Try overclocking you CPU... It will have to be a BCLK (FSB) overclock, so do a bit of research.

[Lays]

My cousins 4690 frequently hit 95-100% cpu usage in 64 player bf4 maps with my 780 ti, so yeah it's possible in some situations. Most of the time it didn't bottleneck me though.

Im somewhat of an outlier though, because I run a ts3 server on my PC while I game and that uses a bit of cpu usage as well,as well as watch movies or twitch streams while I game.

[Enderman]

no...

did you remove all AMD drivers and CCC?

are your nvidia drivers up to date?

are your game settings the same they were before?

[Hieb]

My cousins 4690 frequently hit 95-100% cpu usage in 64 player bf4 maps with my 780 ti, so yeah it's possible in some situations. Most of the time it didn't bottleneck me though.

Im somewhat of an outlier though, because I run a ts3 server on my PC while I game and that uses a bit of cpu usage as well,as well as watch movies or twitch streams while I game.

 

Twitch streams use a surprising amount of CPU power... I don't understand why. I mean I can understand why encoding and uploading a stream would be intensive, but I don't understand why a YouTube video uses maybe 1% CPU while watching a Twitch stream uses like 15-20%... it's ridiculous.

 

Netflix doesn't use much either... so I really don't know why the video stream from Twitch eats up so much CPU time

[Nena Trinity]

Pfft not even FX-43XX will bottle it!

[Lays]

Twitch streams use a surprising amount of CPU power... I don't understand why. I mean I can understand why encoding and uploading a stream would be intensive, but I don't understand why a YouTube video uses maybe 1% CPU while watching a Twitch stream uses like 15-20%... it's ridiculous.

 

Netflix doesn't use much either... so I really don't know why the video stream from Twitch eats up so much CPU time

I think it's because it has to do the decoding real time essentially, since it's not nearly as compressed as YouTube and Netflix.

[stconquest]

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-fx-pentium-apu-benchmark,3120-6.html

[Nena Trinity]

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It does not bottleneck it! Not even the Athlon X4 860K will bottleneck a 780!

[Hieb]

It does not bottleneck it! Not even the Athlon X4 860K will bottleneck a 780!

 

Sure it does. A Bulldozer family (incl BD, PD, SR, EX) CPU will easily bottleneck a high-end GPU like that at 1080P, especially the quads. I mean under the right circumstances you can even make an overclocked i7-5960X bottleneck a GTX 750 Ti. It all depends on the game, the settings, and the framerate.

 

Higher framerate = more things for CPU to process (it prepares every frame and does calculations for every frame). And in games that aren't incredibly well optimized, or don't scale over numerous cores/threads, etc. that means that even monster CPUs can be brought to their knees with ease. Starcraft is one such game.

 

The i5 4590 is gonna hold back the 780 Ti in this game, and an FX-4300 / Athlon 860K would hold it back IMMENSELY.

[Nena Trinity]

Sure it does. A Bulldozer family (incl BD, PD, SR, EX) CPU will easily bottleneck a high-end GPU like that at 1080P, especially the quads. I mean under the right circumstances you can even make an overclocked i7-5960X bottleneck a GTX 750 Ti. It all depends on the game, the settings, and the framerate.

 

Higher framerate = more things for CPU to process (it prepares every frame and does calculations for every frame). And in games that aren't incredibly well optimized, or don't scale over numerous cores/threads, etc. that means that even monster CPUs can be brought to their knees with ease. Starcraft is one such game.

 

The i5 4590 is gonna hold back the 780 Ti in this game, and an FX-4300 / Athlon 860K would hold it back IMMENSELY.

It also depends on the game, unless he plays Arma or WORSE! Then he should be fine!

 

Edit:

If he do have a bottleneck and cant play his games then he should upgrade but only if its unplayable...

[SuperCactus]

Thanks everyone. I've decided to purchase an i5-4690K for $185 on ebay (good deal I think) and sell my i5-4590 for $179. What a great upgrade. I will overclock this 4690K. Thank you.

[stconquest]

Thanks everyone. I've decided to purchase an i5-4690K for $185 on ebay (good deal I think) and sell my i5-4590 for $179. What a great upgrade. I will overclock this 4690K. Thank you.

 

Stop. 

 

You can overclock your 4590.

 

You need a Z97 motherboard to up the multiplier in a K-Series CPU.  What motherboard do you have?

[SuperCactus]

I have a Gigabyte Z97-HD3. So I can. I don't think I can overclock my 4590 much because it's not the "K" version.

[rtpb5642]

It does not bottleneck it! Not even the Athlon X4 860K will bottleneck a 780!

It will bottleneck it in almost every game. I own a 780 and i even had an fx 8350 and it was reeucing my frames to 85 ish when i got a i5 i started maxing out my monitor at 144 fps so let alone having an athlon x4 lmao

[rtpb5642]

I have a Gigabyte Z97-HD3. So I can. I don't think I can overclock my 4590 much because it's not the "K" version.

Correct u can only Up ur FSB

[Nena Trinity]

It will bottleneck it in almost every game. I own a 780 and i even had an fx 8350 and it was reeucing my frames to 85 ish when i got a i5 i started maxing out my monitor at 144 fps so let alone having an athlon x4 lmao

My screen is only 60hz...

 

Also why bother with 144fps?

[i_build_nanosuits]

My screen is only 60hz...

 

Also why bother with 144fps?

 

 

 

OP, you play a CPU bound game...try AAA modern titles such as GTA 5 or crysis or battlefield or whatever you'll see your card will get maxed out and you'll get good framerates...many of these MMO's or RTS games are CPU limited and increasing GPU performance won't give you better performance unfortunately.

[Nena Trinity]

 

No you!

 

Edit:

No human can see 60fps even so LMAO!

[i_build_nanosuits]

No you!

 

Edit:

No human can see 60fps even so LMAO!

i can tell the difference between 60hz and 65hz mind you...i have my display overclocked to 65hz because it does make a difference and i can only imagine what 120 or 144FPS would look like...btw your eyes does not have shutters and human eye can see 1 white frame inserted at 240hz...this has been demonstrated by the US army soldiers already...some jet pilot will even catch a different color frame at 500hz.