Bottleneck 1080

[alexhammar]

Thinking about buying my friends 6 months old pc. It has a 1500x and a 1080, i will be able to buy it at a very good price. Just wondering how much the ryzen 5 1500x will bottleneck the 1080.

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

It'll bottleneck it a bit; although how much it really affects FPS depends on the games you play.

[alexhammar]

But i mean the performance would be better compared to say 7600k with a 1070? or am i wrong?

 @bob51zhang

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

1 minute ago, alexhammar said:

But i mean the performance would be better compared to say 7600k with a 1070? or am i wrong?

 @bob51zhang

Yeah it would probably beat that combo. Again depends on which games. If you're doing BF1, that leverages CPU & cores more than, let's say SC2.

 

But 1080 + 1500x should be better than 7600k + 1070.

[Zyndo]

6 minutes ago, alexhammar said:

Thinking about buying my friends 6 months old pc. It has a 1500x and a 1080, i will be able to buy it at a very good price. Just wondering how much the ryzen 5 1500x will bottleneck the 1080.

Depends on the relative clockspeeds of those two components and what resolution/refresh rate your monitor is. It will also change from one game to the next. if you're gaming at 4k there will be no issues, your 1080 will be the limiting factor. 1440p there may be a couple games which are CPU limited, but you are unlikely to notice. at 1080p, there will be more games which struggle at high fps as a result of limited CPU horsepower, but we're talking framerates of over 100+ anyway so its not like you're exactly missing out either.

 

Assuming you have your 1500x overclocked to a reasonably high speed (like 3.9-4GHz) then these two should be a fine pairing for gaming and you shouldn't be paranoid about any "bottleneck" which may exist. If you're sitting there on a throne of gold and have nothing to spend it on, an upgrade to a 7700k or 8700k when its out if you're gaming at 1080p may be useful in some titles, but hardly a required investment.

[alexhammar]

What a relief, been trying to find information regarding the issue for days. Im paying like 60% of the price i costed when it was new 6 months ago, comparing that for what i otherwise would have been able to buy new it is a huge difference. thx for the quick response though @bob51zhang

[Zyndo]

3 minutes ago, alexhammar said:

But i mean the performance would be better compared to say 7600k with a 1070? or am i wrong?

 @bob51zhang

overclocked 1500x+1080 > 7600k+1070 for sure.

[alexhammar]

1 minute ago, Zyndo said:

Depends on the relative clockspeeds of those two components and what resolution/refresh rate your monitor is. It will also change from one game to the next. if you're gaming at 4k there will be no issues, your 1080 will be the limiting factor. 1440p there may be a couple games which are CPU limited, but you are unlikely to notice. at 1080p, there will be more games which struggle at high fps as a result of limited CPU horsepower, but we're talking framerates of over 100+ anyway so its not like you're exactly missing out either.

 

Assuming you have your 1500x overclocked to a reasonably high speed (like 3.9-4GHz) then these two should be a fine pairing for gaming and you shouldn't be paranoid about any "bottleneck" which may exist. If you're sitting there on a throne of gold and have nothing to spend it on, an upgrade to a 7700k or 8700k when its out if you're gaming at 1080p may be useful in some titles, but hardly a required investment.

Im mainly buying the pc cause i need a gaming pc and he is giving me a great deal, i will have both a 4k samsung monitor and a 1080p 144hz one, for when i play csgo. Using the 4k monitor for me laidback games such as GTA V. I'll mostly be playing csgo, even though the 1500x is bottlenecking the 1080, ill be better of using it than downgrading to a marginally better cpu? 

[Zyndo]

7 hours ago, alexhammar said:

Im mainly buying the pc cause i need a gaming pc and he is giving me a great deal, i will have both a 4k samsung monitor and a 1080p 144hz one, for when i play csgo. Using the 4k monitor for me laidback games such as GTA V. I'll mostly be playing csgo, even though the 1500x is bottlenecking the 1080, ill be better of using it than downgrading to a marginally better cpu? 

in 4k, your GPU will definitely be the bottleneck... and in light games like CS:GO, LoL, or other MOBAs like that at 1080p, you will have no problem getting several hundred fps with a decently overclocked1500x so at that point the discussion of a bottleneck becomes mostly irrelevant.

 

 

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