[SOLVED] I have a bottleneck

[Gruesomepc]

I have a 9700k and it bottlenecks my 6900xt in some titles I have enough money to upgrade my cpu to a 9900k but Im afraid it wont fix my bottleneck in games like csgo.
<mod edit> So basically I want to find out if I should upgrade to the 9900k or wait till I can upgrade to something newer ?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

No, it won't fix your issue. There's hardly any improvement with the 9900k other than extra cores/threads. Otherwise the difference in gaming is about 3-5% and that means just a few FPS. Ideally you'd want to go at least 2 tiers higher than your 9th Gen to have any meaningful CPU upgrade.

List the rest of your PC specs, including mobo, and we can better advise.

 

[sizzling]

What resolution do you use?

CS GO is nearly always limited by the cpu and not the gpu, it’s not demanding on the gpu. It also only uses 4 threads/cores so going to a cpu of the same generation just with more threads won’t help this game at all. Basically the 6900xt is overkill for a game like cs go which will run on potato.

 

[MEMOFLEX]

As mentioned above I think more detail is needed. System specs would be a good start. Details of resolution / refresh rate along with current FPS would also be good along with GPU / CPU utilisation.

 

[Gruesomepc]

I found this issue I was using radeon chill which lowers fps on less demanding loads and it was making a huge variance in my csgo fps which I thought was bottleneck thanks for the responses though.

 

[mdd1963]

Waiting for the omnipresent '400 fps in CS:GO is not enough, I need 550 fps to be competitive!'-crowd!



(How did I ever play Quake 1 at 21.7 fps on a Voodoo1 through much of 1997?)

My recommendation: try to 'live with' the 'pathetic' and 'only 400 fps' at 1080P....; the 9700K is still plenty fast, and faster than all 3800X and below Ryzen models...

Then, come April, see if the next gen 3D-Cache Ryzens are able to catch up to or defeat the 12600K and 12700K. With any luck, maybe existing 12700K or Ryzen 9-5900X models will cost less

 

[hotaru.hino]

We really need to stop treating bottlenecks as a problem. They're not a problem. If you're happy with the performance you're getting, there's nothing wrong with the computer.

 

[alceryes]

I have a 9700k and it bottlenecks my 6900xt in some titles I have enough money to upgrade my cpu to a 9900k but Im afraid it wont fix my bottleneck in games like csgo.
<mod edit> So basically I want to find out if I should upgrade to the 9900k or wait till I can upgrade to something newer ?

Please tell us how you determined that your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU.

 

[drea.drechsler]

We really need to stop treating bottlenecks as a problem. They're not a problem.
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In any system there is one singular component that will be the limit to performance. That will be the bottleneck and there always is one. It just is.