Bottleneck in future?

[Plebeian]

So I'm planning on getting an i5 4690k for my build. (16GB DDR3 )

The problem is, the new Pascal GPUs are coming this year, and next year.

 

Will this bottleneck a pair of 2nd gen Pascals in SLi?

 

(i.e GTX 1170s, whatever they're called)

[givegomezthegun]

I'm not sure how anyone could actually know this, but if it's something you're truly worried about I would suggest holding off on your upgrades to read some reviews and find out then?

[incarnate]

Since Pascal isn't released yet, we can't know, but I'll put my take on it here from what we can reasonably assume, and even considering best case level of performance. TL;DR is to not worry about haswell, it'll be fine.

 

Spoiler

 

Considering that skylake is only slightly better than haswell, if that cpu bottlenecks the performance of a Pascal card, you won't need the lost performance anyway. High end Pascal cards will likely be shooting for 4k and 1440p ultra-wide. If you use those cards in 1080p, at some ridiculous framerate. Kinda like using a 980ti is way overkill for 1080p, Pascal high end will be too, even more so.

 

Let's say, at best, the 1070 is somewhere around a 980ti (probably a bit less, but comparable) so no real bottleneck issues are likely at that tier or lower. 1080 or higher might bottleneck at lower resolutions like 1080p but at very high framerates. But those cards won't be meant for 1080p, and at higher resolutions,  The framerate will be lower, which the i5 will be able to keep up with so again, no bottleneck here either. So realistically, the only way you would see a bottleneck would be to use a high end card for a lower resolution like 1080p. 

 

 

[Plebeian]

Alright then

Thanks for the input!

[incarnate]

50 minutes ago, Plebeian said:

Alright then

Thanks for the input!

No problem

[Bhav]

My I7 980 doesn't even bottleneck SLI 970s yet, I dont think you need to worry about a 4690k.