FX 8350 and GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 (bottle neck?)

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So, I know the new 1070 and 1080 won't launch for a few weeks. I'm not super techy, but I want to ask you more advanced types. If i have an FX 8350 cpu and upgrade to the new GTX 1070 or GTX 1080 will I be bottle necked? I currently have a GTX 970 and wouldn't mind the upgrade if I don't run into any bottle neck situations. Does the information that is currently available allow for an adequate answer? Thanks in advance for your time and information.
 
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The 8350 CPU will bottleneck the GTX 1070 in CPU and GPU intensive games. I would recommend an upgrade to a Skylake i5 6500/6600/6000k processor with a z170 gaming motherboard.
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The 8350 CPU will bottleneck the GTX 1070 in CPU and GPU intensive games. I would recommend an upgrade to a Skylake i5 6500/6600/6000k processor with a z170 gaming motherboard.
 
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It does truly depend on the type of game. It would be a good buy if you ask me. I honestly don't think the 8350 will be a bottleneck but if it is then won't you be getting the best performance possible out of it? Either way wasting more money on Intel processors is a waste of time in my opinion and as games optimize themselves to be more reliant on GPU's rather than CPUs the lifespan of the 8350 will last longer.
 
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No it wont.
Yes, the 8xxx series has 8 cores (more or less). However, they are still weak cores themselves. Just because you can use all of them dosent really mean it will perform any better. Most of the time modern i5s can match FX-8xxx processors even in tasks that can use the extra threads.

To answer the OP. We dont know, nobody does, or will until the cards are benchmarked. Be patient and wait.
In speculation, no the 8350 likely wont bottleneck the newer pascal cards. You wont get the same levels of performance as a stronger processor, but I would not call it a bottleneck in this situation.
 
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Your 8350 will run either 1070 or 1080 just fine. I wouldn't spend the extra money on upgrading to intel for a couple more years and by then I'd probably just go with a zen cpu.

Here is a video of a 8350 running an OC titan x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_5p9wd2dk
 
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You sir give horrible advice. Why spend so much money on such a minor upgrade? Oh that's right your a fanboy.. logic goes out the window for your type.
 
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No, not by much. Seeing as a 1070 is a slightly faster Titan X, the 8350 will handle it fine at stock speeds as it does with the Titan X, game depending. if it does bottleneck, it won't be by much. Use this vid as refernce. No need to go to intel if you don't have to, no matter what fanboys say. Above all else, do whatever you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_5p9wd2dk
 
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Anyone pronouncing you have a bottleneck without asking what your monitors resolution is ...........just making stuff up

Unless you have a resolution of 1440p or greater the 1070 and 1080 are pretty pointless . At 1080p with a 60 Hz monitor those cards are massive overkill and not an upgrade
 
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It will in CPU intensive games... I'm not a fan boy I have two PC's one with amd and one with intel lol.
 
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Which intensive games?
An FX 8350 performs as well as an i5 in a lot of them
 
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Finally some sense in this forums lol people are throwing recommendations without even asking some related specs
 
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I picked up the MSU GTX 1070 gaming x card.

My system seems to like it ok.

To clarify also, as a monitor i am using the Dell S2716DG 27.0" 1440p, 144Hz, 1ms, gsync Monitor

I do notice some lower FPS on certain games.

Here is a link to my set up.

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wYCZRG

I have yet to really get into a CPU intensive game (I have been elbows deep in Smite). I'm going to try out The Division on ultra 1440p this weekend to see what kind of FPS I get. I don't own any battlefield games but I want to know if I do get them, am i going to have to dial down the graphics?

I love hearing from you guys. Anything you guys can offer in term of upgrades (I already ordered 16g ram at 2333mhz to replace the current ram).

Thanks
 
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I have an FX-8350, SSD, 12GB DDR3 RAM and a Gainward 1070 GTX I bought yesterday, and so far not impressed.

I upgraded from a ASUS 7950 which was getting 45fps in Division on high, and now getting 30fps with the 1070GTX on high, both at 1080p.
Overwatch ran on Epic at 60fps capped but it's not really very demanding.
I tried using UDD to remove the ATI drivers but didn't change anything.
I was using Win7 64bit, but that shouldn't matter, maybe a few fps here and there.
I'm doing a fresh install this afternoon to see if it improves it, but if not I think I'll be returning the card.
For a $700AU video card I would expect to see a lot more performance, especially when most reviews and benchmarks show a 300% performance increase from my previous card.
 
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yes, i have an fx 8350 and gtx 1080 founders edition and i upgraded from a gtx 770 and the performance went up maybe 10% and in some games none at all and that card had 2gb vram. the only thing i can do now is play 4k games but the frame rate is around 40fps ultra. where as my friends 980ti with an intel 4790k can get around 50-60fps and that card is a little slower than the 1080. i love AMD especially the price to performance ratio but once you start getting expensive parts for a computer but with a cheap cpu, you really will bottleneck it. i honestly thought the intel fanboys were just spreading rumors about its game performance lol
 
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http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/core_i5_6600k_processor_review_desktop_skylake,15.html

Just look at above review all chips tested with 780ti. If you are gaming at 1080p plus worst case scenario is you drop 20fps. The new rise of tomb raider has 1fps difference. Modern games are becoming more gpu bound(dx12,vulkan). The CPU is becoming the passenger to gaming not the driving performance.
Total war which I play savages the cpu but the dx12 update for that shifts workload to gpu.
Main advantage is the power efficiency you will save money on your electricity bill over time and the environment 🙂.
 
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