Bottle neck or nah?

[kunka_boi161]

Hi i', just wondering if my monitors will hold back the horsepower of a GTX 1060. My monitor's max res is 1920x1080. 

[Princess Luna]

Uh... no?

[Theguywhobea]

I mean, your monitor wont display more than 60 frames in one second unless you're able to overclock it a bit. But I don't think people necessarily consider their monitors to be a bottleneck?

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, kunka_boi161 said:

Hi i', just wondering if my monitors will hold back the horsepower of a GTX 1060. My monitor's max res is 1920x1080. 

The 1060 was designed for 1080p gaming, you'll be fine.

 

Monitors also do not bottleneck. Ever.

[kunka_boi161]

Thank you for your response! 

[iRileyx]

It won't hold your card back, no. (thats also not possible, monitors cant bottleneck components)

[Dah budget gamer666]

1 hour ago, RKRiley said:

It won't hold your card back, no. (thats also not possible, monitors cant bottleneck components)

Too much internet today......

[iRileyx]

47 minutes ago, Dah budget gamer666 said:

Too much internet today......

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[asand1]

A 60hz monitor will not make full use of high end cards, isn't that the definition of a bottleneck?

 

A 1060 at 1080p 60hz sounds right. If you have headroom turn up the settings.

[Mira Yurizaki]

6 hours ago, kunka_boi161 said:

Hi i', just wondering if my monitors will hold back the horsepower of a GTX 1060. My monitor's max res is 1920x1080. 

This is just to ping the OP, but read the bit below.

10 minutes ago, asand1 said:

A 60hz monitor will not make full use of high end cards, isn't that the definition of a bottleneck?

A monitor is an output device. Other than maybe some configuration items and basic status, it doesn't tell the video card what to do nor does the video card rely on the monitor for anything. It just accepts whatever the video card spits out. Therefore, the monitor cannot bottleneck a video card. Even if you use something like VSync, that's not the monitor telling the video card what to do, it's the application telling the video card to wait until the vertical blanking interval (which the video card has to generate) before producing the next frame.

Edited April 12, 2018 by M.Yurizaki

[asand1]

4 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

This is just to ping the OP, but read the bit below.

A monitor is an output device. Other than maybe some configuration items and basic status, it doesn't tell the video card what to do nor does the video card rely on the monitor for anything. It just accepts whatever the video card spits out. Therefore, the monitor cannot bottleneck a video card. Even if you use something like VSync, that's not the monitor telling the video card what to do, it's the application telling the video card to wait until the vertical blanking interval (which the video card has to generate) before producing the next frame.

But while the GPU is pushing out 253 fps in minesweeper, the monitor is only showing displaying 60fps. Therefore the monitor is making the rest of the PC no better than a 60hz potato.

 

Bottleck isn't about physically affecting other components, it's about rendering other high end components useless.

 

This is where folks don't fully understand the concept of a bottleneck.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, asand1 said:

But while the GPU is pushing out 253 fps in minesweeper, the monitor is only showing displaying 60fps. Therefore the monitor is making the rest of the PC no better than a 60hz potato.

 

Bottleck isn't about physically affecting other components, it's about rendering other high end components useless.

 

This is where folks don't fully understand the concept of a bottleneck.

The common lexicon for bottlenecking is performance related. So in the context of OP's question and your example, no, a monitor is not causing a performance bottleneck.

 

Whether or not the monitor is rendering the GPU useless because it can't display all 253 frames in a second (which technically it can at 60Hz... just with a bunch of tearing) is a matter of opinion. Otherwise tell those people who are trying to push 300 FPS on 144Hz monitors in CS:GO they're doing it wrong.

[Monarch]

55 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

The common lexicon for bottlenecking is performance related. So in the context of OP's question and your example, no, a monitor is not causing a performance bottleneck.

 

Whether or not the monitor is rendering the GPU useless because it can't display all 253 frames in a second (which technically it can at 60Hz... just with a bunch of tearing) is a matter of opinion. Otherwise tell those people who are trying to push 300 FPS on 144Hz monitors in CS:GO they're doing it wrong.

 

Except the monitor's refresh rate is its performance. If you look at the PC and its peripherals as a system then you could say there's a bottleneck in that system, though there isn't a bottleneck in the PC itself. Anyway, technically there is no bottleneck in this case because as you said the monitor is actually able to show more than 60 fps, just not whole, so there'll be tearing.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Monarch said:

Except the monitor's refresh rate is its performance. If you look at the PC and its peripherals as a system then you could say there's a bottleneck in that system, though there isn't a bottleneck in the PC itself. Anyway, technically there is no bottleneck in this case because as you said the monitor is actually able to show more than 60 fps, just not whole, so there'll be tearing.

OP asked if the monitor will hold back the performance of the GPU. The answer is no.

 

If we're going to go down this bottleneck rabbithole, the biggest one is you, the slow human.

[Monarch]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

OP asked if the monitor will hold back the performance of the GPU. The answer is no.

 

If we're going to go down this bottleneck rabbithole, the biggest one is you, the slow human.

 

I know, I wasn't arguing with you, and OP already got an answer. It was just a comment on the topic of a bottleneck and yours and asand's point of view, just so people who don't quite get the meaning of a bottleneck get a better idea of what it actually is.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Monarch said:

I know, I wasn't arguing with you, and OP already got an answer. It was just a comment on the topic of a bottleneck and yours and asand's point of view, just so people who don't quite get the meaning of a bottleneck get a better idea of what it actually is.

Alrighty. I apologize if I sounded snippy.

 

This is just one of those topics I'm half passionate about.

[Dah budget gamer666]

Actually what i learned today is that refreshrate bottlenecks your high end system?