Will it bottleneck

[Jacke1012]

Will the core i5 4460 bottle neck a Sapphire R9 390?

[Samppa221]

No, not even close.

[DimasRMDO]

No.

[AresKrieger]

No, bottlenecks between the gpu and cpu are not as common as people seem to believe, assuming your not upgrading really old hardware

Edited October 14, 2015 by AresKrieger

[Oshino Shinobu]

No, bottlenecks are not as common as people seem to believe

Every single system will have a bottleneck. 

[Nielips]

It will depend highly on the game, in some instances it will be GPU in some CPU, or neither. But they are a good pair performance wise.

[Nena Trinity]

Well AMD pairs 290X with 860K and if AMD think 860K is plenty(actually 860K is bottling at some games) then 4460 is overkill!

[Jacke1012]

It will depend highly on the game, in some instances it will be GPU in some CPU, or neither. But they are a good pair performance wise.

The heavy games I will be playing will be GTA 5, Sims 3, i will also be playing Minecraft and some 2D games such as prison architect. Will it handle?

[AresKrieger]

Every single system will have a bottleneck. 

I meant between the cpu and gpu, i'll edit to reflect that

[Jacke1012]

The heavy games I will be playing will be GTA 5, Sims 3, i will also be playing Minecraft and some 2D games such as prison architect. Will it handle?

[Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus V]

there is no such thing as better compatibility with amd and ati cards , and vice versa , cpu and gpu are not THE SAME THINGS

[Nielips]

It should be fine. If you wanted to go any higher you would realistically want to upgrade both CPU and GPU. So unless you want to upgrade both go for it.

[Jacke1012]

It should be fine. If you wanted to go any higher you would realistically want to upgrade both CPU and GPU. So unless you want to upgrade both go for it.

I am sticking with the R9 390 so i thing i will also stick with the core i5 4460

[DimasRMDO]

Every single system will have a bottleneck.

True....

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All we can do is just to minimize it.

[ThomasD]

Every single system will have a bottleneck. 

Not always true.

 

All performance is software dependent.  If the applications run on the system do not create excessive demands on the hardware there will be no bottleneck.

 

Which is why discussing hypothetical  'bottlenecks' without specifying the application(s) involved is meaningless.

[Gale]

The heavy games I will be playing will be GTA 5, Sims 3, i will also be playing Minecraft and some 2D games such as prison architect. Will it handle?

 

It depends on which resolution you'll be gaming. At 1080p, it will be plenty; at 1440p, it should be fine.

[SteveGrabowski0]

The heavy games I will be playing will be GTA 5, Sims 3, i will also be playing Minecraft and some 2D games such as prison architect. Will it handle?

 

GTA V plays pretty damn smooth for me on my Xeon E3-1231v3 + GTX 970 system even with two cores on the CPU disabled to simulate a 3.8 GHz i3, so I imagine a much stronger i5-4460 will do a great job on it too considering the R9 390 and GTX 970 are very close in performance at 1080p. If you're really worried then spend a few bucks more to get the 300 MHz faster i5-4590, but I think you'll be great with a 4460. It'll bottleneck on Arma III, as will any CPU not heavily overclocked, and you'll bottleneck on the Welcome to the Jungle stage of Crysis 3 (you really need an i7 for Very High here), but these are pretty extreme examples with Arma being really badly optimized and Crysis 3 being designed to be a system killer.