i3 Bottlenecking a GTX 1060?

[OnABudgetGamer]

Will a core i3 bottleneck a gtx 1060? I've been very curious about this for a long time and it has been recently brought up by cousins cause he was thinking of upgrading a to a 1060 considering he is running a i3.

[xAcid9]

Which i3? Sandy Bridge? A huge yes.

[Morgan MLGman]

Yeah, an i3-6100 would bottleneck the 1060 in some newer games such as BF1 or Watch Dogs 2

[3 Lions]

In games that require CPU horsepower then yes there will be a bottleneck however in games that require GPU horsepower it will be totally fine. 

[WereCat]

It most definitely will but I wouldnt worry about it if you play on 60Hz monitor.

[Prysin]

23 minutes ago, OnABudgetGamer said:

Will a core i3 bottleneck a gtx 1060? I've been very curious about this for a long time and it has been recently brought up by cousins cause he was thinking of upgrading a to a 1060 considering he is running a i3.

depends on the game and situation. in some games, no, even a SAndy Bridge i3 may be fine, but in most modern games AND ESPECIALLY IN MMO GAMES like WoW, GW2, ESO etc... it will bottleneck. Despite these games being horribly single threaded, they still have aspects which require good multi-threading especially on he networking side in some cases.

 

In all AAA games from 2015 and newer, an i3, even a Skylake or Kaby Lake i3, will BADLY bottleneck the 1060.

[Simon771]

In some games yeah.

In any well optimised game it shouldn't be a problem.