i5 4690K bottleneck for GTX 980 Ti ?

[Tytan64]

Hello, everyone.

I was given a GTX 980 Ti for christmas and I'm curious if my i5 4690K @4,5GHz will bottleneck it.

My other system specs are the following:

i5 4690K
16GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 1600MHz

ASUS Z97-P

nVidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti

240GB Kingston HyperX Savage
1TB WD Black
bequiet Straight Power 10 600W

bequiet Silent Base 800

 

Thanks for sharing your knowledge =)

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No.

[airdeano]

welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

 

no bottleneck. you might find that CPU bound games might benefit in a RAM

upgrade 2400MHz ,but that'd be a later thing to look into.

[UpsetPeck]

no

[STRMfrmXMN]

Hello, everyone.

I was given a GTX 980 Ti for christmas and I'm curious if my i5 4690K @4,5GHz will bottleneck it.

My other system specs are the following:

i5 4690K

16GB Kingston HyperX Beast DDR3 1600MHz

ASUS Z97-P

nVidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti

240GB Kingston HyperX Savage

1TB WD Black

bequiet Straight Power 10 600W

bequiet Silent Base 800

 

Thanks for sharing your knowledge =)

You're more than OK. a 4690k is an i7 without hyperthreading really

[Tytan64]

Thank you very much for the quick replies.

I was just wondering because almost every modern game sugggests to have an Intel Core i7 processor.

I could overclock my memory I think.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Thank you very much for the quick replies.

I was just wondering because almost every modern game sugggests to have an Intel Core i7 processor.

I could overclock my memory I think.

Requirements listed for games are within margin of bullshit, at least some of the time.

Just youtube search the GPU and name the game and surely performance metrics are shown in video's and you can judge for yourself.

Better to judge performance that way than believing devs on their promises. Recommended specs, an i5 would be fine for almost all if not many many games, but they say i7 cos why not.

[Tytan64]

Well the point is that I think you can spend the extra 200€ you'd need to spend on an i7 6700K instead of an i5 6600K on a better graphics card.

I hope I'm not too wrong on that ... ^^

[Anarchyz11]

Not unless you're playing Assassins Creed. 

[Tytan64]

What happened to that game? (I don't own or play it)

[SkilledRebuilds]

Not unless you're playing Assassins Creed. 

Still doesn't. (Not even Unity is that bad anymore, not great, but not as bad as it was) Still getting normal GPU usage of 97-100%

Syndicate still has high CPU usage like Unity did, but not enough to drop GPU usage either.

And other AC games have their imposed 62fps cap but thats the game, not a hardware/bottleneck issue.

[Anarchyz11]

Still doesn't. (Not even Unity is that bad anymore)

Syndicate definitely had my 4690k at 4.5GHz at 100% a good portion of the time.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Syndicate definitely had my 4690k at 4.5GHz at 100% a good portion of the time.

Then something is wrong... I have never seen it spike to 100% (70-95% always, usually in the middle) and mine is slower than yours.

Could very well be the game engine not playing nice with certain config/driver combinations.

[Anarchyz11]

Then something is wrong... I have never seen it spike to 100% (70-95% always, usually in the middle) and mine is slower than yours.

Could very well be the game engine not playing nice with certain config combinations.

What do you have Shadows set to?  They have a marginal, but real, impact on CPU usage.

[SkilledRebuilds]

What do you have Shadows set to?  They have a marginal, but real, impact on CPU usage.

Syndicate I use Non-Nvidia Very High, but even with the Nvidia ones they impacted FPS (10fps drop) but not usage.

Unity I can't remember, probably did use PCSS at the time, cos I didnt use MSAA and did use FXAA so had the headroom to play with.

[Anarchyz11]

Syndicate I use Non-Nvidia Very High, but even with the Nvidia ones they impacted FPS (10fps drop) but not usage.

Unity I can't remember, probably did use PCSS at the time, cos I didnt use MSAA and did use FXAA so had the headroom to play with.

Whatever the case, it does scale well with multiple threads:

 

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/1020x/2015/11/ACS_Kernskalierung2-pcgh.png

[SkilledRebuilds]

Whatever the case, it does scale well with multiple threads:

 

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/1020x/2015/11/ACS_Kernskalierung2-pcgh.png

Whoa thats nuts, didn't realize it was that bad in general... (Quad no HT, VS Quad /w HT comparison is astounding)

[D2ultima]

I was given a GTX 980 Ti for christmas and I'm curious if my i5 4690K @4,5GHz will bottleneck it.

Honestly, at that speed there are very few titles and situations where you would find a bottleneck. I don't believe you would run into any of them. If however in a certain title you notice CPU utilization at 95%+ (on all four cores) and GPU utilization under about 95%, (maybe some games at 120fps  or 144fps might do this; Black Ops 3 at launch would have) and it bothers you, THEN is the only time you should consider an i7 (as any game using that much CPU power will probably benefit well from the hyperthreads).

[Tytan64]

Well, sounds like going for a "big" overclockable Core i5 from Intel is the best performance for your money when it comes to gaming, to me ^^

 

EDIT: If you want to use an Intel and not an AMD ofcourse. I almost got myself a FX 8350 btw.

[BLCT]

Nah you should be fine ahaha, dw about bottlenecks!

[Dash Lambda]

Well, sounds like going for a "big" overclockable Core i5 from Intel is the best performance for your money when it comes to gaming, to me ^^

 

EDIT: If you want to use an Intel and not an AMD ofcourse. I almost got myself a FX 8350 btw.

Dodged a bullet there. The FX line is pretty sad nowadays...

By all rights, a 9590 should perform better than a 4690K in multi-threaded workloads. But it doesn't. Even though it has double the threads.

It's really sad.

[Dr_Pleeper]

You're fine bro, pretty sure a 4690k could handle a Titan X. Especially with DX 12.

[Nena Trinity]

Very unlikely it will but if you are worried grab i7?