GPU for i5-4670K, standard speed, NON-OC.

[chrisespi68]

I am in the process of getting my PSU reviewed by Antec and I am moving my system to a bigger case, (need more HD space, for game storage).

So I was thinking, since I was doing these small upgrades, PSU, CASE and adding a 4GB HD. Why not look into getting a new GPU, within a good price range.

I have done the research, (read many threads) and see that the best recommendation on GPUs on the current market is the 1060.

Okay, got that out of the way.

What would be the highest, Core Clock, Boost Clock and Effective Memory Clock that would not be bottlenecked by the i5-4670K?

I am running the i5-4670K on a ASUS MAXIMUS VI GENE LGA 1150 Intel Z87 with HyperX 32GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 with GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 970 4GB G1 GAMING OC EDITION.

Any advise would be appreciated. This is just a "for my information" thread, as I am considering upgrading the GPU.

 

[SuperGiachi123]

Any 1060 is fine on your system, but upgrading from a 970 to a 1060 is not worth it. You'll get 15-20% better performance at most. If you want to upgrade, wait for the next-gen GPUs to be released(probbaly this summer) and then decide.

 

[Eximo]

Any GTX 1060 6GB or 3GB will be suitable. You could also keep going with a GTX1070 or 1070Ti/1080 without running into issues.

GTX1060 6GB will be about the same performance as a GTX980, so going from a GTX970 isn't going to be a vast improvement. If the GPU still performs well enough you should hold on to it for a while and upgrade with the next GPU release.

Only reason to maybe replace the GTX970 would be VRAM limitations since it is capped at an effective 3.5GB of memory. If you play any games that max that out, then it is a reasonable upgrade (then you should head straight for the 1070 or 1070Ti)

 

[luckymatt42]

You are extremely unlikely to encounter any actual "bottlenecking" with that CPU and a 1060 of any variety.

The only thing you might see is a little sluggish performance on CPU intensive games/apps...but that is not the same as "bottlenecking" where the GPU is waiting on the CPU to catch up. I've got a 4770K on a 1070, and all of the graphics intensive benchmarks I run are more or less in line with other more modern CPUs with a 1070.

 

[Eximo]

Maybe a 20% total CPU performance difference between Haswell and Kabylake, and that is mostly clock speed. If you actually ever do overclock your CPU you can gain 400-500Mhz and be on par with stock Kabylake/Coffeelake IPC.

Coffeelake i5 and i7 have more cores though, so the direct comparisons get a little muddled.