Is this a Bottleneck?

[charlezprice]

My next upgrades are going to consist of an AMD FX-6300 with a Radeon R9 280x. Some may say the CPU will bottleneck the GPU a little bit, but the 280x is such a great card anyway, I'm thinking the performance drop, if there is any, will be minimal. Thoughts?

[LonliestofAll]

Very little to none. My friend runs a FX-4300 and a 7990 with bottlenecking only on games that haven't had the driver updates for his GPU.

[helping]

Very little to none. My friend runs a FX-4300 and a 7990 with bottlenecking only on games that haven't had the driver updates for his GPU.

 

 

 

...the fk

 

 

 

why

 

 

also calling bullshit 

[MbV93]

no bottleneck, you'll get 10 to maybe 20 less fps than an i7 4770 of course but you're paying $130 instead of $300!! It'll be a great system!

[LonliestofAll]

 

 

 

...the fk

He loses about 5 frames when the game is optimised for the 7990. Otherwise very little performance hit.

[naca1227]

He looses about 5 frames when the game is optimised for the 7990. Otherwise very little performance hit.

I thinl the question is more of "how does one have a 4300 and a 7990" 

 

Oh I don't mean to be a grammar Nazi but... It's "loses" not "looses"

[LonliestofAll]

I thinl the question is more of "how does one have a 4300 and a 7990" 

His 7770 died and he got a 7990 on sale for $750 a while back.

[naca1227]

His 7770 died and he got a 7990 on sale for $750 a while back.

Gosh that's a lot of money to buy a 7990 for when you have a 4300. What else are his specs?

[LonliestofAll]

Gosh that's a lot of money to buy a 7990 for when you have a 4300. What else are his specs?

8GB of RAM at 1866, and I didn't ask him the rest

[Tmh85]

I would possibly save up for an 8320 because that will give you a great CPU for the price and the 8320 is fantastic with gaming, especially with high end graphics cards

[EpicGeekonFire]

no bottleneck, you'll get 10 to maybe 20 less fps than an i7 4770 of course but you're paying $130 instead of $300!! It'll be a great system!

Basically will Bottleneck by 10-20 fps

[EpicGeekonFire]

I would possibly save up for an 8320 because that will give you a great CPU for the price and the 8320 is fantastic with gaming, especially with high end graphics cards

Ya Try going for the 8320 its not that much more for a good amount of power... Def no bottlenecking... And also I'd only match a 6300 with an R9 270x thats about it...

[naca1227]

no bottleneck, you'll get 10 to maybe 20 less fps than an i7 4770 of course but you're paying $130 instead of $300!! It'll be a great system!

Just about but I don't think an i7 would make that big of a difference would it?

[MbV93]

Just about but I don't think an i7 would make that big of a difference would it?

 

It depends on the game and how powerful a GPU but here you can see an I7 4770 just destroying everything

[MbV93]

Ya Try going for the 8320 its not that much more for a good amount of power... Def no bottlenecking... And also I'd only match a 6300 with an R9 270x thats about it...

 

Basically will Bottleneck by 10-20 fps

 

But everything gets less fps than an 4770k c'mon! Look at the BF4 performance chart I posted, it's just below an i5 4670k, you overclock the 6300 a bit and it's better than the i5! You wouldn't say an i5 bottlenecks a 7970! Would you?

[naca1227]

It depends on the game and how powerful a GPU but here you can see an I7 4770 just destroying everything

Oh wow, is the difference in BF4 the biggest? 

[Ryan Leech]

Overclock and you will be just fine

[EpicGeekonFire]

AMD Fx 8350 O'ced FTW