GTX 1080 Bottlenecking?

[spaceyeti]

Would an amd fx 8350 running at stock clock speed bottle neck a gtx 1080 while 1080p gaming? i have no plans of playing in 4k i just want overkill 1080p gaming while recording...

 

[Bakua]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

 

[Rogue Leader]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

Bottleneck hard would be unplayable.

That is completely and utterly not true.

An FX-8350 right now is able to keep up performance wise with any modern AAA title. I still would never recommend buying this processor, and technically yes it is a bottleneck in that the processor will be running at 100% while playing, it won't cause such drops that the system will drag or stutter making the game not playable.

Now that said I wouldn't waste the money on a 1080 for 1080p gaming and recording, the GTX 1080 offers you no advantage, you should run a 1070 it will be closer to the performance of the 8350 and still be WAY more than enough to do whatever you need at 1080p.

 

[spaceyeti]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

what about an amd fx 9590?

 

[Rogue Leader]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

what about an amd fx 9590?

DO NOT buy the FX 9590.

All it is is an 8350 that is excessively overclocked. It requires a specific type of motherboard, liquid cooler, and a whole bunch of time to mess with it. For the price to do it you could rebuild your system with an i5-6500 and new board and blow it away.

Nearly every member we have with that processor completely regrets it.

 

[Snipergod87]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

what about an amd fx 9590?

Just no, either a FX83xx max or jumping ship to Intel.

 

[InvalidError]

what about an amd fx 9590?

The 9590 is nothing more than a stock-overclocked 83xx. It won't give you the Intel IPC most games thrive on.

Games and applications bottleneck as soon as any single performance-critical ends up CPU-bound.

 

[jayambroziak]

An AMD FX 8350 doesn't have any support for PCIe 3.0 (only PCIe 2.0), either, which will cut down the bandwidth/throughput of any graphics card made for PCIe 3.0, like the GTX 1080.

 

[Rogue Leader]

An AMD FX 8350 doesn't have any support for PCIe 3.0 (only PCIe 2.0), either, which will cut down the bandwidth/throughput of any graphics card made for PCIe 3.0, like the GTX 1080.

This has been thoroughly tested by multiple sites to only be a 1-2% performance difference. Negligible

 

[spaceyeti]

The 8350 would bottleneck the GTX 1080 hard, even with a high overclock. I'd go with an i5 or i7, an i3 would also bottleneck.

Bottleneck hard would be unplayable.

That is completely and utterly not true.

An FX-8350 right now is able to keep up performance wise with any modern AAA title. I still would never recommend buying this processor, and technically yes it is a bottleneck in that the processor will be running at 100% while playing, it won't cause such drops that the system will drag or stutter making the game not playable.

Now that said I wouldn't waste the money on a 1080 for 1080p gaming and recording, the GTX 1080 offers you no advantage, you should run a 1070 it will be closer to the performance of the 8350 and still be WAY more than enough to do whatever you need at 1080p.

thanks for all the help guys i dont know much about cpus and such. im currently running a gtx 780 from a pawn shop and a used 8350 and ive been looking to upgrade for a while...

 

[Rogue Leader]

Don't buy a 1080, get the GTX 1070, even a 1060 6gb can max out anything at 1080p. The 8 core FX 8350 can handle the streaming you don't need a better gpu for it.

 

[jayambroziak]

An AMD FX 8350 doesn't have any support for PCIe 3.0 (only PCIe 2.0), either, which will cut down the bandwidth/throughput of any graphics card made for PCIe 3.0, like the GTX 1080.

This has been thoroughly tested by multiple sites to only be a 1-2% performance difference. Negligible

Just wondering... has this been tested with the latest generation of cards?

 

[InvalidError]

Just wondering... has this been tested with the latest generation of cards?

Between PCIe 2.0 and PCIe 3.0, the speed difference is only 5Gbps vs 8Gbps. When past GPUs still showed merely single-digit performance loss going from 3.0x16 to 2.0x8, it seems unlikely that current-gen GPUs would suffer much from being stuck on 2.0x16.