8370 Black Edition Bottleneck

[ChrisB1990]

My friend has a AMD 8370 Black Edition OC to 4.8ghz. He wants to upgrade his GTX 980 to a 1080 but a few have told him his CPU will bottleneck a 1080. I personally don't think it will but I wanted a few opinions other than my own. I suggested he maybe SLI another 980 but thats besides the point. Below is what I believe he has in his rig.

MOBO ASUS Sabertooth (Old model)
CPU 8370 Black edition OC to 4.8ghz
16GB DDR3 RAM
GTX 980 OC
750w PSU

 

[Dunlop0078]

It depends on the game but yes it will indeed. If your friend plays on a 1080p 60hz monitor I doubt he would ever notice the bottlleneck, but at higher refresh rates it can become very apprant espcially in newer cpu intensive games. Here are a couple examples. In fallout 4 and bf1 even i3's beat out the 8370. The bf1 benchmark was done with a 1080, the fallout 4 benchmark was done with a 980 ti both at max settings.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference
http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2673-battlefield-1-cpu-benchmark-dx11-vs-dx12-i5-i7-fx?showall=1

 

[fry178]

from some exceptions (multi gpu, high fps), only 720p and lower resolutions will be cpu limited.