Can someone explain (in simple-ish terms) if/how a CPU can bottleneck a Graphics Card performance?
I thought the idea of a GPU with its own dedicated memory was to take the graphics processing away from the CPU to make processing power more efficient. So games can be run on high settings as the GPU is doing all the leg work with the rendering.
So, if I had a low end CPU but the latest and greatest GPU available (for example, currently something like a GTX 690), would the CPU be holding back the full potential of the GPU in performance when playing games?
I thought the idea of a GPU with its own dedicated memory was to take the graphics processing away from the CPU to make processing power more efficient. So games can be run on high settings as the GPU is doing all the leg work with the rendering.
So, if I had a low end CPU but the latest and greatest GPU available (for example, currently something like a GTX 690), would the CPU be holding back the full potential of the GPU in performance when playing games?