Bottleneck. Restricted Hardware?

[prince_xaine]

Anytime I get curious about something, I ask people on this site. It's easier than doing research, as most sites tell you the "safe" answer, or the answer universally deemed correct. A great example of this is: GPU drivers conflict. I've learned from experience, and from great people on this site, that this is not always the case. Thus here is yet another question

Bottleneck. I know what it is, I know how to spot it, but there is one thing that I haven't completely understood.

I tried out this cool site that allows you to see how much your CPU will bottleneck your GPU. So my question stands at this:

If you have a weak processor, as in my case, the i7-3770K 3.8 GHz, would this processor weaken the performance of a 1080 Ti. Meaning, even if your CPU isn't actually being utilized in a graphically demanding game pushing your 1080 Ti to it's limits, would the CPU take away from the 1080 Ti's peak performance by a marginal amount?

The site says my CPU will bottleneck the 1080 Ti by 15%. Would this maybe say I'll only see 85% of the 1080 Ti's real power, and that I would've been better off getting a 1070?

 

[J_E_D_70]

First, what resolution and refresh rate is your monitor? That is critical to any question on cpu limiting gpu.

Second, you should easily be able to get that cpu to the 4.2-4.5ghz range to help.

 

[prince_xaine]

First, what resolution and refresh rate is your monitor? That is critical to any question on cpu limiting gpu.

Second, you should easily be able to get that cpu to the 4.2-4.5ghz range to help.

Thanks for the quick response! well, I can only turbo it to about 3.9 GHz due to my mainboard being unable to overclock.

I just have a standard Ultra Wide 1920x1080 60hz monitor.

Also, normally I use frame scaling when possible to push to 4K-like resolution, and normally I see no issues, still getting about 60fps.

 

[J_E_D_70]

1920x1080 is standard, not ultra wide.

Even a 1060 6gb will run practically anything at 1080p/60. You could get a 1070 for good measure but the cpu will not limit the gpu in any appreciable way.

You’d turn fast sync on in nvidia control panel and be good.

I ran a 3570k @ 4.3 with a 1070 and 1440p/144hz monitor for a year. Upgrading to my sig only got me about 15fps on the higher end but did help minimum fps quite a bit.

 

[prince_xaine]

1920x1080 is standard, not ultra wide.

Even a 1060 6gb will run practically anything at 1080p/60. You could get a 1070 for good measure but the cpu will not limit the gpu in any appreciable way.

You’d turn fast sync on in nvidia control panel and be good.

I ran a 3570k @ 4.3 with a 1070 and 1440p/144hz monitor for a year. Upgrading to my sig only got me about 15fps on the higher end but did help minimum fps quite a bit.

Sorry someone was talking to me at the same time I was typing and I guess it came out 1920 lmao. No it's 2560x1080. I suppose my min graphics usually hits about 40 in most games, and topping off at about 90 in games I play uncapped. I've never owned a 1070 so I don't know how well it performs, especially with frame-scaling enabled. But Thanks, I'll look into fast sync

 

[J_E_D_70]

With the extra pixels, a 1070 would be the starting point. Might do a ti or 1080 for a little more juice.

 

[prince_xaine]

Thanks for your responses, this is a good score for a 1080 ti right?
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8655772