Will an i5-2500 bottleneck an MSI GTX 970?

[Kiritium]

why cant people just understand this simple thing: it depends on what you do/what game you play

 

for example if you play arma you will pretty much ALWAYS be bottlenecked by your processor, i for sure was when i had a 4790k at 4.8ghz paired with a gtx 970. Graphics settings didn't affect frame rate at all. so you cant really ask this question in a general sense. 

 

What about skyrim, l4d2, warframe, witcher 2?

[Nena Trinity]

Mostly you will be fine depends on the game!

[-BirdiE-]

99%GPU usage in valley/heaven/FS. 18686 points in FS and over 80fps in witcher 3 1440p. Just a few examples why this CPU is no real Bottleneck.

And that´s with a GTX980Ti. 

 

Um.. Ok... Unigine Valley and Heaven are benchmarks specifically designed to test your GPU, so they're terrible examples. And your FPS in The Witcher 3, regardless of what it is, does not at all indicate if the GPU is bottlenecked ot not. You clearly have no idea what's going on.

 

"Bottlenecked" doesn't mean "doesn't perform well", it means that you are able to get additional fps by increasing the speed of your CPU. Once, by increasing the speed of your CPU, you are no longer able to get more FPS, then you are no longer bottlenecked.

[Praesi]

Um.. Ok... Unigine Valley and Heaven are benchmarks specifically designed to test your GPU, so they're terrible examples. And your FPS in The Witcher 3, regardless of what it is, does not at all indicate if the GPU is bottlenecked ot not. You clearly have no idea what's going on.

 

"Bottlenecked" doesn't mean "doesn't perform well", it means that you are able to get additional fps by increasing the speed of your CPU. Once, by increasing the speed of your CPU, you are no longer able to get more FPS, then you are no longer bottlenecked.

lol

[Monarch]

99%GPU usage in valley/heaven/FS. 18686 points in FS and over 80fps in witcher 3 1440p. Just a few examples why this CPU is no real Bottleneck.

And that´s with a GTX980Ti. 

 

Those are all GPU-bound applications. Witcher 3 is CPU-bound only in cities and villages and that's when you'll notice framerate drops.

[Delicieuxz]

GeForce Titan: 2500K vs 4790K (66 games tested) - on a GTX Titan

 

 

 

 

 

And this thread might be informative: GTX 970@1.5Ghz and 2500k vs Q9550 in 70+ benchmarks (+bonus i7-860)