Will fx 8350 stock speed bottleneck one gigabyte gtx 980

[Red-Head-Redemption]

Hi I have searched the internet about this topic for quite some time and a lot of passionate people say it will bottleneck and amd is shit but others say it's fine. Im not going to replace my 8350 anytime soon, so if my cpu is just a 8 core potato what kind of healthy overclock would you guys recommend to minimize or cure the bottlenecks? I have a corsair h60 so i have a bit of room for improvement I supposed thanks for the assistance

[HKZeroFive]

I'm betting it will in certain games.

 

An overclock isn't going to help either.

[harrynowl]

Depends what you're wanting to play. But on average yes.

[C0LL0SS0S]

yes

[Morgan MLGman]

Depends what you're wanting to play. But on average yes.

Pretty much this. But if you don't want to overclock at all, you should change the CPU.

I run 8350 @4,5ghz with R9 290X (overclocked pretty heavily) and in all new games there's no bottleneck, in older games it might be, but in newer ones it's fine.

The bottom line is, if you can afford the 980, get it and start gathering money for a new mobo+CPU and buy them when next generation of CPUs comes out later this year

The bottleneck might be slight, but nothing too terrible. You'll lose a couple of frames per second. Maybe.

[Atmos]

In many games, yes to a degree.

 

In multithreaded workload applications, much less, if at all given the right clock speed.

 

You'd be better off shooting for an i5/390 combo than an 8350/980 combo, you'd honestly get better performance most of the time.

[Benji_w]

Hi I have searched the internet about this topic for quite some time and a lot of passionate people say it will bottleneck and amd is shit but others say it's fine. Im not going to replace my 8350 anytime soon, so if my cpu is just a 8 core potato what kind of healthy overclock would you guys recommend to minimize or cure the bottlenecks? I have a corsair h60 so i have a bit of room for improvement I supposed thanks for the assistance

 

Depends on the game for bottlenecks, most of the time I get good use out of my 1660mhz 970 but if I run Valley benchmark that only uses one core i'm heavily bottle necked. You should overclock your 8350 as far as you can but remember heat is the issue, keep the temps below 65c as much as possible.

[Red-Head-Redemption]

Pretty much this. But if you don't want to overclock at all, you should change the CPU.

I run 8350 @4,5ghz with R9 290X (overclocked pretty heavily) and in all new games there's no bottleneck, in older games it might be, but in newer ones it's fine.

The bottom line is, if you can afford the 980, get it and start gathering money for a new mobo+CPU and buy them when next generation of CPUs comes out later this year

The bottleneck might be slight, but nothing too terrible. You'll lose a couple of frames per second. Maybe.

[Darel321]

well it wont be much of a bottleneck in dx12 games , if that helps

[Red-Head-Redemption]

Dang this forum is fast.

Yep ill set the 8350 to 4.5GHz

I actually already have the 980 installed

I bought it in an excited flurry when I got my faulty 290x refunded... I wasn't really thinking but oh well. Thanks for the advice

[Tytan64]

Since AMD Bulldozer CPUs are relatively bad at single threated applications like games you'd definately need to overclock it to get enough speed. If you're wiling to do so you are ok I guess. The core voltage on those CPUs is often "too high" by default. So you might obtain a decent overclock without even increasing the core voltage =)

[Nena Trinity]

Depends on the game but I think you should get it or a 390X, still you can probably OC to 4.4 or 4.5GHz easilly! :3

Edit: 2133MHz/CL9 RAM can bump up performance a bit to!

[BLCT]

The bottleneck isn't as bad as you think it will be, it will be very very minimal.

[Charlie27364]

If you get a decent overclock (4.4GHz+) the bottleneck will be so minimal you won't even notice.

 

But for some CPU intensive games that like 4 threads it will bottleneck.

[D2ultima]

Depends on the situation but generally yes. Also, if buying a 980 for its ~$550 price, I suggest the ~20% stronger R9 Fury instead. NOT THE FURY X; that's $650.

 

For keeping it right now, I'd suggest no less than a 4.8GHz overclock if you can get one going stable.