Does the ryzen 2200g hold back a gtx 1060 6gb,

[petervdfl]

I'm going to build my first pc on a budget of 650€, that's about 725$, and I'm planning on using a ryzen 3 2200g with a gtx 1060 6gb. Will the cpu hold back the gpu? And if so, is a ryzen 5 1500x better? (I can't pay for a 1600)

 

[zyh1987]

Ryzen 1500x is better, benchmark shown that 1500x cpu is on par with 2400g apu

 

[Karadjgne]

What you are asking is really impossible to answer on the surface. Game engines differ, some are quite miserable and extremely hard on a cpu. This'll lead to bottleneck on any gpu. Some games are easy on the cpu but your choice of 4k on the resolution makes it hard on the gpu. Then there's your choices of settings, do you insist on ultra or are happy at medium etc.

Example. My i7-3770K/970 has no issues with the mods I run in skyrim, but it generally sees 6 thread usage. I get a solid 60fps. On my i5-3570k/660ti if I run the exact same mods, I'm looking at 40fps average, not because of the gpu, but because the cpu is tanked. The i7 shows 55/65% usage, the i5 shows 95/55% usage. That being cpu/gpu usage on 1080p/60Hz.

So can a r3 2200G bottleneck a 1060? Absolutely it can, but whether or not it will is less of a question than will you get full usage of the gpu. And that is, yes you can get full usage of the gpu, even on a r3 2200G, the R5 1500x would be better. But pretty equal for gaming.