CPU bottleneck

[Radu_10]

I want to build a gaming PC, and I wonder if an i7 4790K will bottleneck with an GTX 970 GPU.

Thank you !

[GeorgeKellow]

1 minute ago, Radu_10 said:

I want to build a gaming PC, and I wonder if an i7 4790K will bottleneck with an GTX 970 GPU.

Thank you !

No, you're good

[Citadelen]

An i7-4790K won't even bottleneck a 980 Ti or Fury X, unless it's a game like AotS.

[Moonzy]

in a well optimized games, it wont be an issue

in non-optimized games, anything can happen

[Hackentosher]

The 4790k will probably only start to bottleneck if you add two or more flagship GPUs like 980ti's. As seen in AwesomeSauceNetwork's Hotline build, where 2 980ti's bottleneck what I believe is a 5960x.

[Radu_10]

To understand this correctly, the processor will bottleneck when is a big performance difference between CPU and GPU, right?

 

[agent_x007]

12 minutes ago, Radu_10 said:

To understand this correctly, the processor will bottleneck when is a big performance difference between CPU and GPU, right?

 

No. Proof : 

CPU will "bottleneck" GPU, if it's not fast enough to run the game/program.
It highly depends on situation tho (CPU heavy part in game will always result in "CPU bottlenecking GPU" phenomenon).

Since GPU can't do x86 code, and CPU's can't exacly do Pixel Shaders, U can't compare their performance (at least in meaningful way).

Basicly :
Just get a fast enough CPU, and not "one that will not bottleneck... card.".

[Moonzy]

18 minutes ago, Radu_10 said:

To understand this correctly, the processor will bottleneck when is a big performance difference between CPU and GPU, right?

a bottleneck occurs when a component is limiting the entire process, normally its the gpu

 

the processing power does mind to a certain degree, but each games utilizes cpu and gpu in different loads, so its hard to give you an exact answer