980 ti and AMD FX 6300 bottlenecking?

[TexasTech]

Hello all, i just bought a 980 ti (EVGA Superclocked+) since it was on sale, and i have an AMD FX 6300. I will upgrade my cpu, but, as it stands, i wont get the money till next year some time. I currently have a 970 and the bottlenecking is not really that obvious in GPU intensive games (tomb raider on ultra: 120 fps). Will the bottlenecking be horrible or will it be manageable until i get a new CPU?
Thanks,
Noah

 

[king3pj]

Hello all, i just bought a 980 ti (EVGA Superclocked+) since it was on sale, and i have an AMD FX 6300. I will upgrade my cpu, but, as it stands, i wont get the money till next year some time. I currently have a 970 and the bottlenecking is not really that obvious in GPU intensive games (tomb raider on ultra: 120 fps). Will the bottlenecking be horrible or will it be manageable until i get a new CPU?
Thanks,
Noah

That would depend on the game. For example it's the CPU that seems to be causing fps drops in major cities in Fallout 4 for people who aren't maxing out their GPUs. In that game your FX 6300 would hit it's limit way before the 980Ti would. Plenty of other games don't depend on the CPU nearly as much and the FX 6300 would probably be okay for those.

Either way, you went for a really high end GPU. It doesn't make sense to pair that with an FX 6300 and lose performance in some games. As soon as you can afford to upgrade you really should get an i5 or i7 and a new motherboard to support it.

Edit: In the meantime you should consider overclocking the FX 6300. Before I added a second 970 in SLI and upgraded to an i5-4690k I used to pair a single 970 with a FX 6300.

Overclocking my FX 6300 to 4.2GHz helped my framerate in Far Cry 4 quite a bit.

 

[king3pj]

You could temporarily under-clock the gpu if you encounter problems in one particular game (until you decide to upgrade), maybe that solves most of the throttling.

In my experience that's not how bottleknecking usually works. If a game is being bottleknecked by the CPU it usually just runs at the highest framerate the CPU can support even though the GPU may only be sitting around 50% usage. I have never had to underclock a GPU to improve performance though.