Bottleneck???

[HunterDr]

Hey guys, so I have a intel I5 4590 and I want to purchase 2 gtx 1080's for 1440p gaming and I was wondering if my cpu would bottleneck the 2 1080's in sli.

[Nacho Marco Segui]

Depends on the game, but for the most part, you will run games totally fine

[pebble guy]

You will not need 2 1080's to play at 1440p 1 is fine even for 4K. Put it deoends on what games you play. If you play crysis i would look for a 6700k

[don_svetlio]

Single i5 WILL bottleneck 2 1080s, of that I am certain, especially a locked i5

[manikyath]

while its entirely game dependant i feel like theres a bad distribution of budget happening here either way.

i'd say go 1x 1080 and see how it goes, you can always get a second one later.

 

THAT SAID... from what jayztwocents has been saying... yeah.. i feel almost confident saying that that's gonna neck left and right.

[Guest]

23 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Single i5 WILL bottleneck 2 1080s, of that I am certain, especially a locked i5

1 should be fine right?

[don_svetlio]

Just now, PeloyGeek said:

1 should be fine right?

In most games yes. In some games no.

[Nord]

If you look at benchmarks on "digital foundry"'s YT-channel, you can see that a SINGLE 980ti, with an I7 4790k at 4.4GHZ in some cases, is allready bottlenecked in performance. Especially in games like GTA5 and Witcher 3.

Compared to the same system with an 6700k, the differences can scale up up to 20 - 30FPS if we go really high FPS aka 100+ or as low as 3-5FPS if we are very close to the 60FPS mark.

 

an I5, especially w/o OC, is with 90% certainty going to deliver a nice bottleneck to any of the new 10xx series GPU's.

Honstely I would not even pair a dual core with an 970 anymore.