Will an i5 6600k bottleneck a 1080ti?

[Jcastria]

Working on putting together a computer that’s a (near) no compromises on gaming at 60fps in all resolutions, will a 6600k bottleneck a 1080ti where I should aim for an i7?

[Jurrunio]

Dont get 6600k since 8th gen is out.

[Jcastria]

I already have it unfortunately  so now the questions is if I need to upgrade it or not and would upgrading it drastically increase my frames or now 

[chiller15]

Since you already have the processor - no, it won't bottleneck a GTX 1080 Ti at 1080p. If you're only gaming at 1080p at 60Hz, then a GTX 1070 would be more than you need.

[Herman Mcpootis]

3 minutes ago, Jcastria said:

I already have it unfortunately  so now the questions is if I need to upgrade it or not and would upgrading it drastically increase my frames or now 

it will bottleneck it hard in 1080p 144hz, but 60hz will be fine(albeit overkill)

[Morgan MLGman]

It will bottleneck quite a bit. I suggest you upgrade the CPU because otherwise you might as well get a 1080 since you won't be getting any better performance in most cases from a 1080Ti

[chiller15]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

It will bottleneck quite a bit.

Are you sure about that?

[Jcastria]

I’m satisfied plenty at 60hz, and I know the 1080ti was overkill, I was just sick of having to dial back settings and whatnot just to achieve 60hz full settings so I went nuts. Thanks for answering my question

[Droidbot]

10 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

Are you sure about that?

In games like BF1 even the higher end 7640X (Krappy-Lake-X) is 20fps behind the 7700k.. 

 

Mind you, in other games like Hitman, it's on par. It's all up to how it uses the GPU and CPU, really. 

[McHox]

yup

[Prox1ma]

no it wont

[Prox1ma]

12 minutes ago, Jcastria said:

I’m satisfied plenty at 60hz, and I know the 1080ti was overkill, I was just sick of having to dial back settings and whatnot just to achieve 60hz full settings so I went nuts. Thanks for answering my question

I'm pretty much in the same boat, I have 2500K, its way too overkill for me, until I do my platform upgrade.

[Odur32]

I think it all depends on the game your playing, some games use CPU more heavily than GPU. Sadly most games favor higher IPC even if they have decent multi-core support. So your probably looking at least a coffee lake for games, If you have any room with your current hardware to overlock, I'd do that as a stopgap measure. No clue if the i5 6600 can be overclocked on that Mobo though. I can get 144 FPS in some games on a Ryzen 1700x with stock speeds, using 1080Tix2 in SLI. But this machine isn't just for gaming, It is primarily for multi-threaded 3D Render workloads.

[Morgan MLGman]

5 hours ago, chiller15 said:

Are you sure about that?

Yup, I'm 100% sure. My friend has an i5-4690K @4,6GHz which translates into performance of an i5-6600K clocked at around 4,1-4,2GHz and his CPU is a huge bottleneck in Battlefield 1 at 1080p. He's got a GTX 1060 6GB to pair the CPU with, and even though it isn't a particularly powerful card, he still notices drops of GPU usage even into mid 50s. That of course results in FPS drops, bad frametimes and stuttering because his CPU is pegged at 100% across all four cores.

Obviously there are games where the bottleneck won't be noticeable or as severe, but new games tend to be heavier on the CPU than they used to and for those games, quad-cores with no HT are not enough to pair them with a high-end GPU like a 1080Ti. If that CPU can't actually get all the performance out of a GTX 1080, it definitely won't be able to support a 1080Ti well-enough for a premium gaming experience that you paid for when you bought a GPU like that.

My vote goes to upgrading the CPU as well if OP wants to have a 1080Ti.

[IamODIN]

55 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Yup, I'm 100% sure. My friend has an i5-4690K @4,6GHz which translates into performance of an i5-6600K clocked at around 4,1-4,2GHz and his CPU is a huge bottleneck in Battlefield 1 at 1080p. He's got a GTX 1060 6GB to pair the CPU with, and even though it isn't a particularly powerful card, he still notices drops of GPU usage even into mid 50s. That of course results in FPS drops, bad frametimes and stuttering because his CPU is pegged at 100% across all four cores.

Obviously there are games where the bottleneck won't be noticeable or as severe, but new games tend to be heavier on the CPU than they used to and for those games, quad-cores with no HT are not enough to pair them with a high-end GPU like a 1080Ti. If that CPU can't actually get all the performance out of a GTX 1080, it definitely won't be able to support a 1080Ti well-enough for a premium gaming experience that you paid for when you bought a GPU like that.

My vote goes to upgrading the CPU as well if OP wants to have a 1080Ti.

mostly open world game tend you use a lot of cpu usage. games like witcher, gta will be affected. other games like call of duty etc won't.

 

but to get the best in both worlds i would suggest upgrading 

[Jcastria]

Damn, I really like open world games and are mainly the ones I play so it looks like an i7 is in my future. Any recommendations on those?

[Rags778]

shit i will be gaming on 1440p with 6600k and 1080 ti oc , i think it will bottleneck as hell