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Will a 2070 super bottleneck badly on a 2500k

My old 2500k bottlenecked my 980 in some games like battlefield 1. Wouldn't pair anything higher than a 1070/590 with sandy bridge, just a waste the GPU will be sitting at 50% usage or less while the CPU is maxed out.
 
Is there any website or tool where you can find out these results? For example, I have a 6700k @ 4.6ghz, would be interesting to see what gfx cards would bottleneck my CPU.
 
Hutchy said:
Is there any website or tool where you can find out these results? For example, I have a 6700k @ 4.6ghz, would be interesting to see what gfx cards would bottleneck my CPU.
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I found this, dunno how useful it is though.

https://pc-builds.com/calculator/

It assumes that my 6700HQ causes a 11% bottleneck of the 1060 in my laptop.

Also, https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwrevie...k-revisit-2018-benchmarks-vs-9900k-ryzen-more.

Which makes me think my overclocked 2700k should be fine paired with a 2060 Super, but if I wanted a faster card it would be time to switch it out.
 
krooton said:
So a 2700k @ 4.6Ghz with a 2060S @ 1080p will be fine then?
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If you monitor is only 60Hz, the bottleneck shouldn't be so significant as the max frame rate you are aiming for is 60fps anyway; but if you got a 120/144Hz monitor, your max frame rate rate aiming for is 120/144fps so it literally require twice the CPU grunt of pushing 60fps, so the CPU bottleneck would definitely happens (not in all games, but definitely would be in most of the modern demanding games), when the graphic card is not the bottleneck.
 
Hutchy said:
Is there any website or tool where you can find out these results? For example, I have a 6700k @ 4.6ghz, would be interesting to see what gfx cards would bottleneck my CPU.
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Gpucheck.com is good at comparing CPU’s and GPUs, it’s not far off the true fps either.
 
The 2500K can absolutely not handle a 1080Ti, that's utter crap.

In fact the video you posted literally shows an OC'd 2500K being heavily bottlenecked versus a 2600K in single player games....putting aside that the 2600K itself would bottleneck a 1080Ti.

The video is also based on games from 2016, try playing the latest Assassins Creed or Battlfield online with a 2500K and it would literally bottleneck a GTX1060....forget about a 2070 Super.
 
For 120fps sure the CPU will not hold up (not many could tbh!)
For 60 fps it probably isn't that bad in a decent number of games (with a bit more of an overclock probably too!) :)
 
Terrorfirmer said:
The 2500K can absolutely not handle a 1080Ti, that's utter crap.

In fact the video you posted literally shows an OC'd 2500K being heavily bottlenecked versus a 2600K in single player games....putting aside that the 2600K itself would bottleneck a 1080Ti.

The video is also based on games from 2016, try playing the latest Assassins Creed or Battlfield online with a 2500K and it would literally bottleneck a GTX1060....forget about a 2070 Super.
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You're right with it bottlenecking, I've got a 1070 and that gets slightly bottlenecked depending on what game I play. If OP really wants to hold on (which isn't really worth it now 3600 is here) then a 3770k with a BIOS update would be his best bet, although it'd still be bottlenecked a considerable amount.
The worst thing about being bottlenecked is the sudden hit from 100 fps to under 50 fps with those 0.1/1% lows.
 
Doogles said:
You're right with it bottlenecking, I've got a 1070 and that gets slightly bottlenecked depending on what game I play. If OP really wants to hold on (which isn't really worth it now 3600 is here) then a 3770k with a BIOS update would be his best bet, although it'd still be bottlenecked a considerable amount.
The worst thing about being bottlenecked is the sudden hit from 100 fps to under 50 fps with those 0.1/1% lows.
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My experience lines up pretty much exactly with yours. Even with a 2600K it wasn't great.
 
My 1070 was bottlenecked by a 4.6GHz 2500K. Battlefield had the CPU pegged at 100% all cores permanently. Sometimes it's factors other than max FPS that are the biggest issue such as dips in fps and general smoothness in gameplay. Harder to quantify but definitely real.

My upgrade plan is a good X570 motherboard to carry me through a few upgrades over the next 5 years. A 3700X, plenty good enough for now and a 5700XT, good enough for 1440p. Next year see what competition brings to high end GPUs and CPUs.
 
Although CPU RAM and Chipset are arguably less important than GPU, there are limits, and I think your suggestion crosses the line. GPU gives you an obvious peak framerate increase but the rest of the system contributes ( in my opinion ) mostly to things like how smooth the game is and what the minumum framerate is. I can't tell you how many times I have resolved game glitches and slowdowns by upgrading the CPU RAM and Chipset rather then the GPU. I certainly think in your case money would be best spent on upgrading the rest of the system before you buy a 2070. Graphics cards are very expensive these days and you really need to make sure you are going to get a fantastic boost in performance before you part with your cash, and I think with a 2500K you are just not going to get that.
 
Doogles said:
My 3770k 4.5ghz is on par with a stock 6700k, not terrible but certainly lacking for heavy CPU games for 60 fps minimums, still we've had these for 7+ years so certainly can't complain!
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Thankfully the only things I'm looking at this year are BL3 and mechwarrior, I'll upgrade next year for cyberpunk
 
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