Question Bottleneck question ?

[Swifaholic]

I was just wondering for games like Fortnite that are more CPU based

With my i5-11400f do you think i would be better off getting a 3060 or 3070?
There are some deals on those two so i`m just trying to figure out my best option. Thanks

 

[jeremyj_83]

I was just wondering for games like Fortnite that are more CPU based

With my i5-11400f do you think i would be better off getting a 3060 or 3070?
There are some deals on those two so i`m just trying to figure out my best option. Thanks

You can never go wrong with the higher end GPU. However, the nVidia cards cost a lot more than their AMD alternatives. For example the cheapest 3060 12GB card is $275 but a Radeon 6700XT, which is more than 30% faster on average than the 3060 12GB at 1080p and almost 40% at 1440p, comes in at $310. Going up to $400 gets you an RX6800 and $430 gets you an RX7700XT. Both of which are faster and cheaper than the 3070 in non ray tracing games.

 

[Order 66]

You can never go wrong with the higher end GPU. However, the nVidia cards cost a lot more than their AMD alternatives. For example the cheapest 3060 12GB card is $275 but a Radeon 6700XT, which is more than 30% faster on average than the 3060 12GB at 1080p and almost 40% at 1440p, comes in at $310. Going up to $400 gets you an RX6800 and $430 gets you an RX7700XT. Both of which are faster and cheaper than the 3070 in non ray tracing games.

I have always wondered what fortnite needs to run well considering I have seen it stutter on high end hardware and I am not sure why it stutters even on high end hardware. (it doesn't stutter on my relatively high end hardware, but I have seen it sutter on other more powerful systems.) I think it has something to do with shader compilation but IDK.

 

[Swifaholic]

You can never go wrong with the higher end GPU. However, the nVidia cards cost a lot more than their AMD alternatives. For example the cheapest 3060 12GB card is $275 but a Radeon 6700XT, which is more than 30% faster on average than the 3060 12GB at 1080p and almost 40% at 1440p, comes in at $310. Going up to $400 gets you an RX6800 and $430 gets you an RX7700XT. Both of which are faster and cheaper than the 3070 in non ray tracing games.

Ok thankyou, so u think even with a much better gpu it wont bottleneck to much basically?

 

[jeremyj_83]

Ok thankyou, so u think even with a much better gpu it wont bottleneck to much basically?

First no matter what your hardware is there is always a bottleneck somewhere in the computer. Secondly the i5-11400f is a good CPU. I am using an RX6700XT with an i7-4770k and don't have any issues. Not to mention when you get to higher resolutions and quality settings the strain on the CPU is lessened.

 

[Order 66]

First no matter what your hardware is there is always a bottleneck somewhere in the computer. Secondly the i5-11400f is a good GPU. I am using an RX6700XT with an i7-4770k and don't have any issues. Not to mention when you get to higher resolutions and quality settings the strain on the CPU is lessened.

especially 1440p or 4k which the 6700xt is a 1440p class card for now.