Predicting Bottlenecks

[Jacklando]

How can you tell if a graphics card will have a bottleneck with your cpu before you buy it? Or is it just guessing. I currently have an AMD FX 6300 and a GTX 950 and just bought a GTX 1060  6gb, I know where will be at least a small bottleneck which could be avoided with a little overclocking. How can you guys tell if it bottlenecks and predict it? I can't seem to figure that out lol

[Mohenjo]

Any modern "gaming grade" gpu will be bottlenecked by an amd cpu out there in gaming. Overclocking your fx 6300 actually won't remove the bottleneck (I have one, I know) but you will see an increase in performance and will be able to play any game out there.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, Jacklando said:

How can you tell if a graphics card will have a bottleneck with your cpu before you buy it? Or is it just guessing. I currently have an AMD FX 6300 and a GTX 950 and just bought a GTX 1060  6gb, I know where will be at least a small bottleneck which could be avoided with a little overclocking. How can you guys tell if it bottlenecks and predict it? I can't seem to figure that out lol

You can't. At best all you can do is monitor your CPU usage while you play your games and if it's constantly high (like 85% or higher), then you start running into the danger zone. However this only tells you you may get one, it doesn't tell you how bad it will be.

[Jacklando]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

You can't. At best all you can do is monitor your CPU usage while you play your games and if it's constantly high (like 85% or higher), then you start running into the danger zone.

Ah, thanks for the info. My build was on a VERY low budget so thats why the parts are not the best and the difference between the two cards are so great. I think my next upgrade may be an intel i5 or i7, but not any time soon

[typographie]

4 minutes ago, Mohenjo said:

Any modern "gaming grade" gpu will be bottlenecked by an amd cpu out there in gaming.

How can you say that with such certainty without at least specifying the game or the intended framerate? Do you mean to suggest that if you pair "any modern gaming GPU" with any AMD CPU, you will never reach 60 FPS no matter the game or the settings used?

 

That may be true in some cases, but that needs a lot more clarity.

[Mohenjo]

Just now, typographie said:

How can you say that with such certainty without at least specifying the game or the intended framerate? Do you mean to suggest that if you pair "any modern gaming GPU" with any AMD CPU, you cannot reach 60 FPS, no matter the game or the settings used?

 

That may be true in some cases, but that needs a lot more clarity.

No not at all, I mean paring the fx 6300 with a modern gpu would mean you would not be utilizing all the power the Gpu has in modern games. Of course you can get 60fps in some games but with games like gta V you will not be using 100 percent of the gpu (have this issue with a 770)

[EminentSun]

First of all just know that there will always be a bottle neck. Secondly do a bit more research on your own because the severity of any given bottleneck will depend on what your doing. However there is a reasonable bottlenecking of an rx 480 by a 6300 and the gtx1060 is slightly faster than the 480 so yes there will be a bottleneck. The only way to find bottlenecks is to run tests just google youtube for "fx6300 gtx 1060" and see the plethora of performance tests to see how it will run in the games/programs you play.

[ybriK]

3 hours ago, Jacklando said:

How can you tell if a graphics card will have a bottleneck with your cpu before you buy it? Or is it just guessing. I currently have an AMD FX 6300 and a GTX 950 and just bought a GTX 1060  6gb, I know where will be at least a small bottleneck which could be avoided with a little overclocking. How can you guys tell if it bottlenecks and predict it? I can't seem to figure that out lol

Overclocking that FX-6300 is a must as a FX-6300 cannot properly feed the GTX 980 the instructions it requires. The GTX 1060 performance similar to a GTX 980.