Will i5 Ivy bridge CPU bottleneck GTX1080 ?

[AlCarosse]

My friend wants to upgrade to GTX1080, but he afraid that his i5 3570k will bottleneck it. 

So the question is - will it ?

He also have Z77 and 16GB of RAM, but refuse to overclock the CPU.

[WereCat]

no

[DioOmicida]

It'll be fine.

 

[kameshss]

Nope. It'll work just fine.

[IMPERIUS]

depends on the game. Games like arma 3 or other cpu-heavy games, you may see some bottlenecking there, but still not the point you would drop to below 60fps, just a few fps less

[don_svetlio]

4 minutes ago, AlCarosse said:

My friend wants to upgrade to GTX1080, but he afraid that his i5 3570k will bottleneck it. 

So the question is - will it ?

He also have Z77 and 16GB of RAM, but refuse to overclock the CPU.

If you OC it will be fine. At stock it will bottleneck

[Aereldor]

15 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

If you OC it will be fine. At stock it will bottleneck

With a decent overclock, it should be enough for any game, and you'll almost never see a bottleneck.

 

At its stock frequency, the architecture may show its age in the newest, most CPU-intense titles.

[WereCat]

19 minutes ago, IMPERIUS said:

depends on the game. Games like arma 3 or other cpu-heavy games, you may see some bottlenecking there, but still not the point you would drop to below 60fps, just a few fps less

You can play Arma 3 on ULTRA with GTX 1080 or Radeon HD 5870 1GB and you will get the same FPS in 120 player server... that game is CPU and SSD heavy.. yes it needs SSD to run smoothly because HDD read speeds cant keep up in this game as the assets are frequently loaded from there resulting in stuttering.

 

To OP:

If he plays on 1080p he will be bottlenecked a little bit.. but that doesent matter because in most games he will easily achieve more than 120FPS.

At 1440p the CPU bottleneck will be quite a bit lower and at 4k it will be gone.

[AlCarosse]

Thanks for answers guys. Fun fact, a lot of you brought ARMA 3 , and he is actually spends 70% of his gaming in ARMA3.