AMD A10 + GTX 970 bottleneck?

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I have an AMD A10-6790K APU with Radeon HD 8670D and I wanna go get a GTX 970 graphics card. Will it work with AMD A10 or will there be a bottleneck? If there will be bottlenecks on the system, can you give me a suggestion on what CPU I should get?
 
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Bottlenecking Guide & Chart 2015

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K / AMD A8 / AMD A10 / Pentium G3258
GPU: GTX 760 / GTX 750ti / R9 380 / R9 285 / R9 280X / R9 280 / R9 270X / R9 270 / R7 265 / R7 260X / R7 260 / R7 250X / R7 250
Recommended Combo: CPU + GTX 750 Ti + R9 270X or R9 270 or R7 265
 
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The CPU will bottleneck the Graphics card, but it will still be a huge improvement on what you have overall. And games which aren't so GPU bound will not be affected so much.

To put a better CPU in you'd need to buy a new motherboard.

I'd get the GPU and be happy until it's time for your next upgrade.
 
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You may face CPU bottleneck in some games depending on the resolution and game settings you play but that really doesnt matter much because with a GTX970 you will get solid smooth frame rate in every games which you can really enjoy than without a GTX970. In future you can upgrade your CPU+ mobo when you plan so. Now GPU upgrade makes most sense.
 
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Pcper.com went crazy CPU/GPU testing to give you an idea of what to expect with different combinations sorta a lot of charts but if you compare, the mid tier GPUs were even being slowed down by the lower processing.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Systems/Quad-Core-Gaming-Hardware-Roundup/BioShock-Infinite-and-Civilization-Beyond-Earth

970 is a bit ambitions/expensive in less there is a newer pc on the way closer to a 4th gen i3 or faster type processor.

I bearly feel a 780ti is getting enough CPU with my i7-2600 as the newer CPUs (Skylake) get higher FPS.
 
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That guide is incorrect and needs to be redone properly! Here is a good start on tiering the CPU's http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
 
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It just needs 960/3xx series and a note that the better GPUs even on this chart will not get their maximum performance.
 
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It is mostly the CPU tier that is wrong a modern I5 has 99% of the gaming performance of the I7 at the same clocks so all GPU's are suitable to be run with them and no reason to break the I7 out.
 
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I understand on what standpoint you are coming from, however if you look at real time gaming performance that tier list is generally on the right track, also there is a reason why the Tier 2 is separated into two, the FX 9000 series and i5 haswell, it's because the i5 will less bottleneck when it comes to the higher tier GPU's. At first glance the information may look incorrect, however if you look in detail it's a great general guide you can use for an estimate of the bottleneck. Also this is not a hierarchy chart the tier's are simply there for general organization.
 
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I have a A8-7600 and a EVGA GeForce GTX 950 SC+ and in games like Skyrim I get 70-80fps average and in DOOM 4 I get a average of about 40-50fps at medium-high settings, so the A10-6790K probably wont have a massive bottleneck, though I would recommend a A10-7860K if you don't want to spend extra money on a new motherboard, also the A10-7860K has the same single-core performance as the AMD FX-8350.
 
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