1070 Bottleneck?

[MatrixGrenade]

Will a gtx 1070 be bottlenecked by an amd 8350 at 4.3Ghz. Thanks in advance

[Sir Asvald]

10 minutes ago, MatrixGrenade said:

Will a gtx 1070 be bottlenecked by an amd 8350 at 4.3Ghz. Thanks in advance

Yes. even the i5 gets bottlenecked by the 1070. 

[Vortez]

FX 8350 definitely will bottleneck. Even GTX 970 is too much for it.

 

[MagnusGrønstad]

5 minutes ago, MatrixGrenade said:

Will a gtx 1070 be bottlenecked by an amd 8350 at 4.3Ghz. Thanks in advance

I'm quite certain it will. ye might wanna go with an i5 6600K

[Imakuni]

5 minutes ago, MatrixGrenade said:

Will a gtx 1070 be bottlenecked by an amd 8350 at 4.3Ghz. Thanks in advance

If I was to say "yes", would you have enough money to swap out for an intel platform?

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, MagnusGrønstad said:

what?

 

Fail! What I meant to say, Even the i5 gets bottlenecked by the 1070.

[MagnusGrønstad]

Just now, Abdul201588 said:

Fail! What I meant to say, Even the i5 gets bottlenecked by the 1070.

I think you mean that even the i5 will bottleneck the 1070.

 

the cpu won't get bottlenecked by the GPU...

[sgloux3470]

Bottlenecking is a term thrown around way too much unnecessarily.

 

Basically look at it like this.  You have your "GPU Load", or intensity of the graphics being rendered.  And your "CPU Load", which is how much work your CPU has to do.

 

If you have a weaker CPU with a strong GPU, you will experience constrained GPU performance in a situation with a low or moderate GPU load and a moderate or high CPU Load.  

 

Some games have Low GPU Loads and High CPU Loads, and thus bottlenecking will be most obvious here.  Good examples of this are Arma 3, Cities Skylines etc.

Some games have High GPU loads and low CPU loads.  4K gaming can be classified here: basically your GPU will be working to its max and thus your CPU will be fine.

Most games fall somewhere in the middle, although extremely high resolution gaming or cranking settings like supersampling anti-aliasing/downsampling will often push your GPUload so high that there won't be a performance improvement from upgrading CPU.

 

 

You also have to consider what constrained performance or bottlenecking means.  It means that your GPU will have one hand tied behind its back and hopping on one leg.  Does that mean you shouldn't get a strong GPU if you have a weaker CPU?  Not necessarily.  A one armed one legged muscle man will still beat the shit out of a 5 year old.  And most games fall in the middle, which means while you may have some performance loss from your CPU, having a powerful GPU will still be very beneficial to gameplay.  Only the most extremely CPU limited games will see zero performance improvement from a strong GPU upgrade.

 

The tl,dr is don't not get a new graphics card just because you have an older CPU.  Some titles would benefit might play better with a weaker GPU (RX480 for example) and a stronger CPU than they will on your GTX 1070/FX 8350 set up, but the ones that truly demand powerful graphics performance certainly won't and those are the whole damn reason we spend hundreds on these high end graphics cards in the first place.  You will probably experience some bottlenecking in specific games, or even specific areas of some games, but you'll still get great framerates in plenty of games too.  I'd still get the 1070 and then consider upgrading the CPU at a later date. (AMD's new Zen CPU's supposed to come out in the next 4 months, or you can get a reasonable intel equivalent upgrade like a Skylake i3/i5)

 

[PRTI]

Yes