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Ryzen 2600 bottleneck?

Rannoch

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Looking at sticking a 3070 or similar into a PC for gaming. The cpu is Ryzen 5 2600, I assume there will be a bottleneck? If so what CPU upgrade would needed?

Cheers
 
Rannoch said:
Looking at sticking a 3070 or similar into a PC for gaming. The cpu is Ryzen 5 2600, I assume there will be a bottleneck? If so what CPU upgrade would needed?

Cheers
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You might squeek it at 1440p or 4k, but I would still upgrade cpu, or see how it goes and wait for platform upgrade on 27th sept ... big bucks i guess going ddr5 but AM4 is on its way out.
 
I'm using a E5-1650 V2 overclocked to around 2600 performance, probably a touch higher in some games. At 1440p it varies from no bottleneck to up to 20% CPU bottleneck in comparison to an 11/12th gen Intel. At 1080p though you are looking at close to 20% CPU bottleneck in a lot of games. 4K almost no CPU bottleneck but the 3070 can struggle a bit with some of the most recent games at 4K with all settings turned up i.e. CP2077.

I wouldn't say it is a waste of time as at 1440p (which I game at mostly) you get great performance in most games, I'd still buy it over the 3060ti even with this era CPU performance.

For 1080p I'd probably look at the 3060ti unless you are planning on a CPU upgrade.
 
It will 100% bottleneck yes, my 2600X bottlenecked the 5700-XT in a number of games, not massively, and Nvidia drivers did have an overhead issue, not sure if that's fixed, not seen an update from anywhere on that with Youtubers or tech sites.
 
Poneros said:
The best thing you can do is get the 5800X3D. If you look at stuff like Spiderman remastered you can see that at a minimum you need a 5600X for 60 fps avg with RT enabled.

www.pcgameshardware.de

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered im Test - Der PC grüßt die freundliche Spinne aus der Playstation-Nachbarschaft [Update 3]

Nun geht es im Technik-Test von Spider-Man Remastered ans Eingemachte: Wie läuft das Spiel mit und ohne Raytracing auf populären GPUs und CPUs?
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Spider-Man and Cyberpunk are the only two games that have shown that a 9900k and 10900k aren’t enough anymore. Cyberpunk is the best for benchmarking in my opinion. Nothing else comes close.
 
Poneros said:
The best thing you can do is get the 5800X3D. If you look at stuff like Spiderman remastered you can see that at a minimum you need a 5600X for 60 fps avg with RT enabled.

www.pcgameshardware.de

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered im Test - Der PC grüßt die freundliche Spinne aus der Playstation-Nachbarschaft [Update 3]

Nun geht es im Technik-Test von Spider-Man Remastered ans Eingemachte: Wie läuft das Spiel mit und ohne Raytracing auf populären GPUs und CPUs?
www.pcgameshardware.de www.pcgameshardware.de
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5800X3D is not compatible with all boards.

You'll get some bottleneck here and there, it depends per game.
I would keep the money and see what next gen CPUs and GPUs bring.
 
I'd look to drop in a cheap 5600/X or 5700X/5800X, maybe keep an eye out on MM as a 5800X went for only £160 on there the other day and I'm sure once Zen 4 is out in a couple of weeks there will be a few people looking to offload Zen 3 chips on the cheap.
 
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