i5 bottleneck 1080?

[Rhett Quigley]

I sold my r9 390 and got a 1080 for $450 (really $320 when I add the money from the 390). I still have an i5 4690k overclocked to 4 ghz (very modest overclock). Will a ryzen or i7 be worth it down the road?

[Himommies]

1 minute ago, Rhett Quigley said:

I sold my r9 390 and got a 1080 for $450 (really $320 when I add the money from the 390). I still have an i5 4690k overclocked to 4 ghz (very modest overclock). Will a ryzen or i7 be worth it down the road?

Yes but it won't bottleneck

[Guest]

What type of user are you? Are you more in the gamer realm or a video editor of some type? 

[Avive]

as e23 said it may help to know what kind of person you are

[Rhett Quigley]

2 minutes ago, e23 said:

What type of user are you? Are you more in the gamer realm or a video editor of some type? 

I just play games. I could sell my i5 and upgrade for like $150 later.

[Guest]

Just now, Rhett Quigley said:

I just play games. I could sell my i5 and upgrade for like $150 later.

For the most part Ryzen might be overkill and it might not be depending on what games you play and the future of gaming for yourself. 

 

You'd have to see more individually for each game especially in the future if it's worth it. 

 

Many games only use 4 cores. That's where it's game to game for the most part and how many they use.

[Rhett Quigley]

1 minute ago, e23 said:

For the most part Ryzen might be overkill and it might not be depending on what games you play and the future of gaming for yourself. 

 

You'd have to see more individually for each game especially in the future if it's worth it. 

 

Many games only use 4 cores. That's where it's game to game for the most part and how many they use.

 

What about battlefield

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Rhett Quigley said:

What about battlefield

It looks like BF4 can run 8 and it's one of the few that can do so. 

 

I don't know much about battlefield.

 

It looks like 8 cores for AMD and 4 cores for intel. I'm not 100% on this though. Just what I got searching around a little. 

[AntonChigurh]

8 minutes ago, Rhett Quigley said:

What about battlefield

Most of the Battlefield series (esp BF1) is heavy on multicore usage. So if you're a huge Battlefield guy and that's most of what you play, get a Ryzen down the road. If not, just get a 7600k/7700k

[Heavygun1450]

Depends, If your trying to run 1080p at 144hz, it will bottleneck only a few games like battlefield 1 but others will not. If your trying to play at 1440p 60-75hz, your fine, but once you start trying to go above 100fps your going to bottleneck on a i5. Certain games like BF1 really eat threads and CPU's up.

[Rhett Quigley]

5 minutes ago, Heavygun1450 said:

Depends, If your trying to run 1080p at 144hz, it will bottleneck only a few games like battlefield 1 but others will not. If your trying to play at 1440p 60-75hz, your fine, but once you start trying to go above 100fps your going to bottleneck on a i5. Certain games like BF1 really eat threads and CPU's up.

 

Yeah, I have a 144hz 1080p monitor

[Darkseth]

Does this answer your question? 

An i5 will Bottleneck you pretty hard, since you're running a low resolution (1080p) and a high refresh rate.

It DOES make a huge difference, if your i5 drops to 55 fps, or your i7 to 80-90 fps.

Or if your i5 can do 100 fps, and an i7 140 fps. (Witcher 3 in Novingrad)

 

However: Is this a reason t NOT buy a GTX 1080? Nope.

 

- If your i5 delivers enough fps for YOU, then no problem. Either your GTX 1080 delivers more (cpu bottleneck, still np because it's ENOUGH fps for YOU), or you increase Settings, or use DSR. If the

So don't ask for Bottlenecks CPU and GPU have different purposes. If both deliver enough fps for you, there is no probem. Who cares if the CPU bottlenecks a bit, or the GPU. Something WILL Bottleneck in a Gaming System. EVERY single time. Just, when the GPU Bottlenecks, noone cares

 

So ask yourself: Does your i5 deliver enough fps for YOU? 

 

- You will eventually upgrade your i5 to a Ryzen or i7  6 core in a few Years. When that happens, you can keep your GTX 1080

So no problem there. ^^

 

If your Budget is enough for a GTX 1080: Get it. Price / Performance is awesome atm, and it should be only +100 bucks from a GTX 1070. Go for it^^

[smokefest]

23 minutes ago, Rhett Quigley said:

Yeah, I have a 144hz 1080p monitor

Battlefield 1 is very CPU demanding. You would run the game better with a Ryzen or i7 and a gtx 970 than an i5 4690k with a gtx 1080 due to the fact that the game is very CPU demanding.

 

Source : I had a 4690K with a gtx 1070 and was struggling a lot , had good fps, but the cpu lag was horrible...When switched to i7 6700k, no more issues at all, perfect smooth gameplay, same FPS, but no more CPU lag... maybe a bit more fps tho...

 

If you have a 144 hz monitor, the i5 will be a "problem". I mean it will run just fine, but if you want best performance, you need to get an i7 or ryzen to achieve higher fps on higher hz monitor.

 

 

 

[JJVGaming]

If you play any open world games there will be a big difference between an i5 and i7 or r5 1600x. For example, Forza Horizon will stutter no matter what with an i5 even if overclocked but when you get an i7 the game does not stutter at all. There will be slight stutter (like once every 10 minutes) if you plan to run maximum settings in large map games, but for the most part it should be bearable.