i5 4460 with a 2070 bottleneck?

[Awsumist]

Pretty simple. Will a RTX 2070 be bottlenecked by my i5 4460? If so is the (non existent) 2060 a better option since it's rumored that it's about the performance of a 1080?

[xAcid9]

4460 already bottleneck 980 Ti/1070 in some games. If 2060 performance similar to 1070 then most probably will get bottleneck as well. 

[NelizMastr]

15 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

4460 already bottleneck 980 Ti/1070 in some games. If 2060 performance similar to 1070 then most probably will get bottleneck as well. 

It already bottlenecks a 1060 6GB in some games (source: me, personal experience). 

 

19 minutes ago, Awsumist said:

Pretty simple. Will a RTX 2070 be bottlenecked by my i5 4460? If so is the (non existent) 2060 a better option since it's rumored that it's about the performance of a 1080?

Very. The 1060 6GB is the limit for that CPU. If you want more performance, also upgrade to a current gen CPU/platform.

[spartaman64]

what resolution are you gaming at? i probably disagree with some of these guys since my definition of bottlenecking is that the gpu cannot run at or near 100% 

[NelizMastr]

14 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

what resolution are you gaming at? i probably disagree with some of these guys since my definition of bottlenecking is that the gpu cannot run at or near 100% 

Which is exactly what happens when you play a CPU heavy game like GTA5 or BF1. Unless you game at 4K a 4 year old i5 isn't going to cut it.

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, spartaman64 said:

since my definition of bottlenecking is that the gpu cannot run at or near 100%

that's what i'm saying, at stock my 3770 bottleneck my 980 Ti when playing GTA:V. GPU usage only around 70% in some areas@1080p.

[Awsumist]

2 hours ago, spartaman64 said:

what resolution are you gaming at? i probably disagree with some of these guys since my definition of bottlenecking is that the gpu cannot run at or near 100% 

1080p at 60hz atm but looking to upgrade to 144hz

 

Thanks for the help everyone else as well btw

[C9Games]

On 8/24/2018 at 5:02 AM, NelizMastr said:

It already bottlenecks a 1060 6GB in some games (source: me, personal experience). 

 

Very. The 1060 6GB is the limit for that CPU. If you want more performance, also upgrade to a current gen CPU/platform.

Mine hasn't bottlenecked my 1060 6gb at all for the past few months. I don't plan on upgrading a CPU for a while, but maybe getting a new GPU for when I go in to upgrade to the current gen techs. What LGA 1150 socket CPU do you believe to be the best for the RTX 2070?

[4thVariety]

The real bottleneck is the raytracing anyway. Disable RTX and your CPU 2070 combo is likely to deliver 1080@120fps or 4k near 60fps. Whether the CPU shaves off a few frames due to being a small bottleneck is no big deal. But for nvdia's asking price, a lot of cards deliver that for 600 bucks.

 

The big bottleneck is when you turn on RTX. Your frames will take a massive hit and neither your CPU, nor the rasterizer part of your GPU part is to blame. Simply put, there are too few RTX rendering cores on your 2070, it is not balanced right.

 

Ideally, you need a card that does 1080 at 60fps and then turns on RTX while staying at 60fps. Nvidia does not deliver that, they deliver an uneven card which prioritizes rasterization engines over raytracing ones. Looking at the bad support for raytracing at the moment that does not come as a surprise.

 

Stop thinking CPU->GPU.

Instead think CPU -> GPU (Rasterizer) -> GPU (Raytracer)

No use worrying about the CPU, when the card is its own bottleneck.

[gbergeron]

On 8/24/2018 at 5:43 AM, Awsumist said:

Pretty simple. Will a RTX 2070 be bottlenecked by my i5 4460? If so is the (non existent) 2060 a better option since it's rumored that it's about the performance of a 1080?

Of course it will bottleneck it lol unless you play in 8k 15 fps

[gbergeron]

On 8/24/2018 at 5:43 AM, Awsumist said:

Pretty simple. Will a RTX 2070 be bottlenecked by my i5 4460? If so is the (non existent) 2060 a better option since it's rumored that it's about the performance of a 1080?

Also a i5 4460 bottleneck a 1080 as well, and a 1070 as well,

 

So Yes Yes Yes it will bottleneck quite hard in some games