Bottleneck Issue/Question

[Diabolox07]

Hello ! 

First of all, my English is not the best, so sorry for that ;D

I have a question about bottleneck. I currently have a I5-4590 with a GTX 970, and I want to swap the GTX 970 by a 1070 ti or higher. Will I get a huge bottleneck, if it's the case how many FPS will I approximately lose ? Sure I could by a new CPU but I will also need to change the Motherboard if I want a new 6th, 7th or even 8th gen Processor. 

The other question is, do I have to worry about bottlenecking at all ? Sure it's a thing when you are a PC Gamer, but some people are taking it really serious and other don't. So I'm like 'Hey, what do you do now ? Do you buy the GTX 1070ti or 1080 or not?' 

 

Thanks for all the replies.

 

[hug0mac]

Hi and welcome to LTT Forums

 

 

The short answer is: No. Your i5 4590 will not bottleneck the 1070 Ti. (Nvidia maybe will make new graphics card this month so keep in mind!)

 

 

Have a good day

[Mira Yurizaki]

7 minutes ago, Diabolox07 said:

Hello ! 

First of all, my English is not the best, so sorry for that ;D

I have a question about bottleneck. I currently have a I5-4590 with a GTX 970, and I want to swap the GTX 970 by a 1070 ti or higher. Will I get a huge bottleneck, if it's the case how many FPS will I approximately lose ? Sure I could by a new CPU but I will also need to change the Motherboard if I want a new 6th, 7th or even 8th gen Processor. 

You will likely experience some bottlenecking, especially with the minimum frame rates. But average frame rate is likely not going to suffer much.

 

7 minutes ago, Diabolox07 said:

The other question is, do I have to worry about bottlenecking at all ? Sure it's a thing when you are a PC Gamer, but some people are taking it really serious and other don't. So I'm like 'Hey, what do you do now ? Do you buy the GTX 1070ti or 1080 or not?' 

Only if you're really paranoid about "getting the most out of hardware." If it were me, I'd look at what I'm getting now vs. what I could be getting if I went with the new hardware. If I see a huge potential, then I'd definitely jump on the upgrade regardless. Then I look at what the upgrade gets me. If the upgrade doesn't perform as well as reported within some margin, then I start looking around for other things to upgrade. Then I'll keep seeing what each upgrade gets me until I'm satisfied with the performance I want.

 

Set reasonable expectations and upgrade your system to meet or exceed those. That's all I think anyone should worry about.

[Majestic]

Stick with the 970. There's no point in buying the 1070TI with that CPU if you already own a decent enough GPU.